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Persons Unknown

Jake Adam York

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Description:Remembering the sacrifices of the Civil Rights movementIn this stunning continuation to the poetry collection A Murmuration of Starlings, dedicated to those who lost their lives during the Civil Rights movement, Jake Adam York presents another set of searing portraits of these martyrs—men whose murders haunt America’s history. These elegiac and documentary poems seek justice and understanding for such sacrifices as Mack Charles Parker, lynched in Mississippi in 1959, his body disposed of in the cold waters of the Pearl River; Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, abducted into the depths of the Homochitto Forest, beaten, and drowned in the Mississippi by the Ku Klux Klan; and Medgar Evers, dedicated activist, whose assassination outside his home in 1963 sent shockwaves throughout the South. Drawing on photographs, articles, legal documents, and other cultural artifacts, York deftly weaves history and memory into a lyrical reckoning for these often-overlooked victims of the bitter struggle for Civil Rights.“Jake Adam York’s beautiful poetry reclaims the voices of America’s disappeared. This elegant victory of memory offers us a map to justice and hope if we but heed the call.” —Susan M. Glisson, author of The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement“These poems are corrosive, blunt, historical as photographs we know from front-page news, but they have also the depth and tang of sweet dawn before anything has happened, before the lynchings, the blood. . . . Persons Unknown is bravely done work, and Jake Adam York is,now, a necessary poet among us.” —Dave Smith, author of Little Boats, Unsalvaged: Poems, 1992–2004 “Elegiac and epic, these poems broaden the limits of the American imagination on the subject of Jim Crow, an era as worthy of mythologizing as the War of Independence or World War II. I am grateful that York is applying his prodigious talent to this history and I am profoundly shaken by the result.” —Anthony Grooms, author of BombinghamWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Persons Unknown. To get started finding Persons Unknown, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Remembering the sacrifices of the Civil Rights movementIn this stunning continuation to the poetry collection A Murmuration of Starlings, dedicated to those who lost their lives during the Civil Rights movement, Jake Adam York presents another set of searing portraits of these martyrs—men whose murders haunt America’s history. These elegiac and documentary poems seek justice and understanding for such sacrifices as Mack Charles Parker, lynched in Mississippi in 1959, his body disposed of in the cold waters of the Pearl River; Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, abducted into the depths of the Homochitto Forest, beaten, and drowned in the Mississippi by the Ku Klux Klan; and Medgar Evers, dedicated activist, whose assassination outside his home in 1963 sent shockwaves throughout the South. Drawing on photographs, articles, legal documents, and other cultural artifacts, York deftly weaves history and memory into a lyrical reckoning for these often-overlooked victims of the bitter struggle for Civil Rights.“Jake Adam York’s beautiful poetry reclaims the voices of America’s disappeared. This elegant victory of memory offers us a map to justice and hope if we but heed the call.” —Susan M. Glisson, author of The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement“These poems are corrosive, blunt, historical as photographs we know from front-page news, but they have also the depth and tang of sweet dawn before anything has happened, before the lynchings, the blood. . . . Persons Unknown is bravely done work, and Jake Adam York is,now, a necessary poet among us.” —Dave Smith, author of Little Boats, Unsalvaged: Poems, 1992–2004 “Elegiac and epic, these poems broaden the limits of the American imagination on the subject of Jim Crow, an era as worthy of mythologizing as the War of Independence or World War II. I am grateful that York is applying his prodigious talent to this history and I am profoundly shaken by the result.” —Anthony Grooms, author of BombinghamWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Persons Unknown. To get started finding Persons Unknown, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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