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By: Jake Adam York
Series: Crab orchard series in poetry
Publisher: Crab Orchard Review; Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Carbondale, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780809329984; 9780809385782
Description: 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 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. --Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.