A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
Jake Adam York, University of Colorado, Denver
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Overview:
Jake Adam York reads four poems in and near his hometown of Gadsden, Alabama, in January 2008. York's poetry blends themes and imagery drawn from his experiences and those of his family members, framed with the natural, industrial, and social histories of the northern Alabama landscape. In these four poems, York conjures events, places, and people in ways that highlight landscape, history, memory, and experience.
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Presentation Sections:
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama:
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"Gone With the Wind"
(2:13 min.) |
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"At Cornwall Furnace"
(2:08 min.) |
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"Bunk Richardson" (00:39 min.) |
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"Walt Whitman in Alabama"
(3:35 min.) |
About Jake Adam York:
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Raised near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his steelworker father and his mother, a history teacher, Jake Adam York studied architecture and English at Auburn University. He received an M.F.A. in creative writing and English literature from Cornell University. He is currently an associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Denver, where he directs the creative writing program. York has published two books of poetry, Murder Ballads (2005), and A Murmuration of Starlings (2008), and his poems have appeared in various journals, including Blackbird, Diagram, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, New Orleans Review, Shenandoah, and Southern Review.
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"A Field Guide to Northern Alabama" is part of Poets in Place, an ongoing series of original videos featuring poets reading and discussing their poems in locations they write about.
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