A Murmuration of Starlings
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- Synopsis
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This book 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 events of Selma, Alabama, in 1965. Throughout the collection, an invasion of starlings images the racial hatred and bloodshed.
While the 1950s spawned violence, the movement in the early 1960s transformed the language of brutality and turned the violence against the violent, says York. So, the starlings, first produced by violence, become instruments of resistance. York’s collection responds to and participates in recent movements to find and punish the perpetrators of the crimes that defined the civil rights movement. This book participates in the search for justice, satisfaction, and closure.
- Copyright:
- 2008
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 94 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780809328376
- Publisher:
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 11/09/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Jake Adam York
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Poetry, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics
- Submitted By:
- Worth Trust
- Proofread By:
- Worth Trust
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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