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Abide /

In the years leading up to his recent passing, Alabama poet Jake Adam York set out on a journey to eulogize the 126 martyrs of the civil rights movement, murdered in the years between 1954 and 1968. Abide is the stunning follow-up to York's earlier volumes, a memorial in verse for those fallen....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: York, Jake Adam (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review & Southern Illinois University Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Abide with Me; te lyra pulsa manu or something like that; Epistrophy; Letter to Be Wrapped around a 12-Inch Disc; Letter Hidden in a Letter to Cy Twombly; Postscript; Mayflower; Letter Written on a Hundred Dollar Bill; Letter Written on a Record Sleeve; Abide; Postscript Written on a J-Card; Exploded View; My Great-Grandmother's Snuff Cup; Feedback Loop; Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl; Laws of Conservation; Cry of the Occasion; The Voice of Woody Guthrie Wakes in an Antenna in Okemah, Oklahoma; Letter from Okemah; Postscript to Silence.
  • Letter Already Broadcast into SpaceAbide; Letter Written in the Breath; Inscription for Air; Dear Brother, ; Tape Loop; Letter Written in Someone Else's Hand; Letter Written in the Dark; Postscript (Already Breaking in Distant Echoes); Letter to Be Read by Furnace Light; Foreword to a Subsequent Reading; Acknowledgments; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; Back Cover.