books by Jake Adam York

books by Jake Adam York

books:

Jake Adam York

Copper Nickel 6
Mary McHugh, Iver Arnegard, ...

Univ. of Colo. at Denver, 2006

Poetry and fiction. An illustrated project of the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. Also includes writing by Brennen Wysong, Mary Buchinger, Sara Verstynen, Zachary Schomburg, and Adam Clay.

The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry (Literary Criticism and ...
Jake Adam York

Routledge, 2004

The Architecture of Address traces the evolution of an American species of lyric capable of public pronouncement without polemic. Beginning with Whitman, Jake Adam York seeks to describe a kind of poem wherein the most ambitious poets--including Hart Crane and Robert Lowell--occupy and reconstruct important public spaces. This study argues that ...

Murder Ballads

Jake Adam York

Elixir Press, 2005

A Haunting First Collection
The past doesn't so much haunt the present in Jake Adam York's *Murder Ballads*. Rather, the past and present become mingled, smoke from the same fire. Alabama native and editor for *storySouth* and *Copper Nickle*, York has a sense of the past and past's continuing ...

A Murmuration of Starlings (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
Jake Adam York

Southern Illinois University Press, 2008

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. ...