wyszukanych pozycji: 5
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The Architecture of Address : The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry
ISBN: 9780415970587 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This study argues that American poets become civic actors when their poems imagine and reconstruct the conceptual architecture of the moment.
This study argues that American poets become civic actors when their poems imagine and reconstruct the conceptual architecture of the moment.
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708,73 |
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A Murmuration of Starlings
ISBN: 9780809328376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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. York follows Sun Ra, a Birmingham jazz musician whose response to racial violence was to secede from planet Earth, considers the testimony in the trial of J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant for the murder of Emmet Till in 1955, and recreates...
A Murmuration of Starlings elegizes the martyrs of the civil rights movement, whose names are inscribed on the stone table of the Civil Rights ...
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63,49 |
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Abide
ISBN: 9780809333271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Winner, 2015 Colorado Book Award In the years leading up to his recent passing, Alabama poet Jake Adam York set out on a journey to elegize 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. From Birmingham to Okemah, Memphis to Houston, York's poems both mourn and inspire in their quest for justice, ownership, and understanding. Within are anthems to John Earl Reese, a... Winner, 2015 Colorado Book Award In the years leading up to his recent passing, Alabama... |
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63,49 |
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Persons Unknown
ISBN: 9780809329984 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. " "In 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 waters of the Pearl River; Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, abducted into the depths of the Homochitto Forest, beaten, and drowned in... " "In this stunning continuation to the poetry collection "A Murmuration of Starlings," dedicated to those who lost their lives during the Civil ... |
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63,49 |
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The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry
ISBN: 9780415762670 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This work traces the evolution of an American species of lyric capable of public pronouncement without polemic. Beginning with Whitman, York seeks to describe a kind of poem wherein the most ambitious poets occupy and reconstruct important public spaces.
This work traces the evolution of an American species of lyric capable of public pronouncement without polemic. Beginning with Whitman, York seeks to ...
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273,66 |