.. International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems and workshops

• Record Nr.: UNISA996279967003316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Piscataway, NJ : , : IEEE
• ISSN: 2325-2944
• Disciplina: 681
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Periodico
• Note generali: Proceedings of conference.

A murmuration of starlings / / Jake Adam York

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910956914203321
• Autore: York Jake Adam
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Carbondale, : Crab Orchard Review, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2008
• ISBN: 0-8093-8717-4; 1-299-05056-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (98 p.)
• Collana: Crab Orchard series in poetry : open competition award
• Disciplina: 811/.6
• Soggetti: Civil rights movements - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Poems.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Shall Be Taught to Speak -- For Lamar Smith -- At Liberty -- Substantiation -- At Money -- B/W -- The Crowd He Becomes -- At Liberty -- Tuck -- For Reverend James Reeb -- A Murmuration of Starlings -- March -- Watch -- The Small Birds of Sound -- At Sun Ra's Grave -- Still in Motion -- Notes -- Copyright Credits -- Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry -- Back Cover.
• Sommario/riassunto: A Murmuration of Starlings elegizes the martyrs of the civil rights movement, whose names are inscribed on the stone table of the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama.Individually, Jake Adam York's poems are elegies for individuals; collectively, they consider the violence of a racist culture and the determination to resist that racism.