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Series 1
Poetry, 1992-2012
Boxes 1-13, 15, 19-21
Scope and Content Note
The series consists of poetry written both by and for Jake Adam York from 1992-2012, including handwritten and printed drafts in various stages of development. Major topics of York's poetry include civil rights and race, personal narrative, and reflections on historical events. This series also includes manuscripts and drafts of poetry volumes that were eventually published, in particular A Murmuration of Starlings, Murder Ballads, and Abide. The poetry written by others for Jake Adam York includes poetry by former students and colleagues sent via email. Folder titles in this series are preserved from York's original folder titles.
Arrangement Note
Series is arranged in its original order.
Poetry by Jake Adam York | ||
Box | Folder | Content |
---|---|---|
1 | - | “Postscript” for Evers, undated |
1 | - | Poem to be Held in the Light, 2008-2010 |
1 | - | Sestina Playtime, 2011 |
1 | - | Secessions, 2007-2009 |
1 | - | Distant Relations, 2010 |
1 | - | Graber, undated |
1 | - | HAL, 2009 |
1 | - | Civil Rights Memorial, undated |
1 | - | Sensitivity, undated |
1 | - | Not in Our Stars, 2007 |
1 | - | Poems for Dave Smith, 2008 |
1 | - | Letter/Bottle of Whiskey for Morgan, 2009-2010 |
1 | - | Toward a Documentary Poetry, undated |
1 | - | Research, undated |
1 | - | Leads, undated |
1 | - | Escape Velocity, undated |
1 | - | Dickinson/Audience, undated |
1 | - | Elegy on an Empty Table, undated |
1 | - | Mothlight, 2008 |
1 | - | Watershed, 2008 |
1 | - | Morse/Dee, 2007 |
1 | - | Skin Memory, 2009 |
1 | - | Photography, undated |
1 | - | Slave Burial, 2005 |
1 | - | Light, Direction, Concentration, 2008 |
1 | - | Self-Portrait, undated |
1 | - | Mothlight, 4-week, undated |
1 | - | Montgomery, undated |
1 | - | Walks, undated |
1 | - | Echo Poems, undated |
1 | - | Jerry Seigel, undated |
1 | - | Mockingbird in L.A., undated |
1 | - | Tapeworm, undated |
1 | - | Shroud, undated |
1 | - | Letter Written on Sassafrass Leaves, 2009 |
1 | - | Stanton/Miles, Columbus, GA, 2008 |
1 | - | Jack, Diagram, undated |
1 | - | Counties, undated |
1 | - | Hauntings, undated |
1 | - | Letter from Oklahoma, 2007-2008 |
1 | - | Letter Written in the Breath, undated |
1 | - | An Unfinished Sentence, undated |
1 | - | Toll Booth Lady, 2003 |
1 | - | Ever, undated |
1 | - | Elegy in Silk and Brass, 2012 |
1 | - | I Didn't Know What Time It Was, undated |
1 | - | Self-Portrait as Superman, Alternate Take, undated |
1 | - | You May Already Be a Winner, undated |
1 | - | Self-Portrait with the Cast of Match Game 1976, 2012 |
1 | - | Calendar Days, 2012 |
1 | - | To Wink Martindale, 2012 |
1 | - | The You Tree, Relativity, 2012 |
1 | - | Golden Shovel, undated |
1 | - | SFA 2012 |
1 | - | Grace, undated |
1 | - | Last Call, undated |
1 | - | H. Glover/Five Waltz, 2011 |
1 | - | Contopus, 2012 |
1 | - | Ben Chester White, undated |
1 | - | Relent, 2006 |
1 | - | Alexander's Confession, 2008 |
1 | - | Self-Portrait with 28 Dead Birds, undated |
1 | - | Reese/Voice/Afterlife, 2011 |
1 | - | Tape Loop for Collis, undated |
1 | - | Zagajewski/Hesitation, 2012 |
1 | - | A (Partially) True Account of the Bully, undated |
1 | - | Digging/Names, undated |
1 | - | Postscript (Already Broadcast into Space) to Sun Ra, from Earth, undated |
1 | - | Blue Shiff, 2012 |
1 | - | Arrowroot, undated |
1 | - | Poems to Komunyakaa, undated |
1 | - | Blueshifting, undated |
1 | - | Self-Portrait in August, 2012 |
1 | - | Self-Portrait in a Plate-Glass Window, 2009 |
1 | - | Self-Portrait as Broadcast/Cryptomnesia, undated |
1 | - | Sun Ra Prayer, undated |
1 | - | Self-Portrait with Someone Else's Name, undated |
1 | - | Listen, 2005 |
2 | - | Beauty as a Form of Discourse, 2008 |
2 | - | Daguerreotype, undated |
2 | - | Reese, Elegy, undated |
2 | - | Abide, 2012 |
2 | - | Vis Viva, Laws of Conservation, undated |
2 | - | Fire Waltz, 2010 |
2 | - | Fire Waltz research, 2011 |
2 | - | Fire Next Time, 2012 |
2 | - | Self-Portrait in Someone Else's Hand, 2011 |
2 | - | Child, undated |
2 | - | Nadie Olvida Nada, undated |
2 | - | Crepuscule, undated |
2 | - | Letter from Okemah, undated |
2 | - | Coltrane, Japanese interviews, 2011 |
2 | - | Self-Portrait as Silence, 2011 |
2 | - | Propagation, undated |
2 | - | Feedback, undated |
2 | - | Feedback, Moron, undated |
2 | - | Mementos, undated |
2 | - | Evidence, undated |
2 | - | Pilgrim's Rest, undated |
2 | - | Submissions, undated |
2 | - | Letter to be Found in a Catfish's Stomach, 2010 |
2 | - | Epistrophy, undated |
2 | - | Monk's Music, 2011 |
2 | - | Matejka, Third Hand Letter, undated |
2 | - | Scar, 2012 |
2 | - | Letters, notes and scraps, 2011 |
2 | - | Beginning with a Line by Agee, 2011 |
2 | - | Theory of Translation, 2011 |
2 | - | A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar, undated |
2 | - | A Letter to be Read by Furnace Light, undated |
2 | - | Letter to Okemah, Hayes, undated |
2 | - | Letter Written on the James, to Joshua Poteat, undated |
2 | - | Dear Brother, Payne, 2011 |
2 | - | Mayflower, Feedback, undated |
2 | - | The Cruel Radiance, 2008 |
2 | - | Furnace, Exploded View, 2011 |
2 | - | Pastoral, 2009 |
2 | - | NARDIS, undated |
2 | - | Letter Written on a Hundred Dollar Bill, to a Howlin' Wolf from Mississippi |
2 | - | Meditations (Run-out), 2011 |
2 | - | Ammon's Letter, undated |
2 | - | Letter Also to be Also Written to Albert Murray, 2011 |
2 | - | 'Round Midnight, undated |
2 | - | Inscription, 2010 |
2 | - | Palms, Frank Morris, undated |
2 | - | Sun Ra Letter, 2010 |
2 | - | Letter to Twombly, 2011 |
2 | - | Letter to be Read in a Ghost Town, undated |
2 | - | Letter to be Erased from the Back of a Photograph, undated |
2 | - | Letter Written in Four Hands, for Robert Glasper, 2010 |
2 | - | Letter to be Wrapped Around a 12-Inch Disc, for Major Jackson, undated |
2 | - | Oumar Dia, undated |
2 | - | 1861, undated |
2 | - | Subtone Letter, undated |
2 | - | Snuff, 2011 |
2 | - | McFee, Seven Questions, undated |
2 | - | Cobb, CRM Poetry, undated |
2 | - | Stembridge, Don't Ask, undated |
2 | - | Maya Lin, Boundaries, undated |
3 | - | 374, undated |
3 | - | The Price of Poetry/Poems, undated |
3 | - | Grove, undated |
3 | - | Curvature, undated |
3 | - | Rainwater Sabbath/Rain, undated |
3 | - | Compositions from Denver, undated |
3 | - | Compositions from Alabama, August 1997 |
3 | - | MUD, undated |
3 | - | Rabbit, undated |
3 | - | Notes on the Elegy, undated |
3 | - | Home, undated |
3 | - | Rust, 1996 |
3 | - | No More Boxcars, Willie, undated |
3 | - | Memory, 1992 |
3 | - | Antiques, undated |
3 | - | Orgasm, undated |
3 | - | My Grandfather's Heart, undated |
3 | - | Dinner/Plate/Remainder Guest, undated |
3 | - | Sonnets, undated |
3 | - | 1948, Photo, Storyteller, undated |
3 | - | Angel, Chimborazo, undated |
3 | - | Vietnam War Memorial, undated |
3 | - | Spikes, undated |
3 | - | Honest/Cops and Robbers, undated |
3 | - | Bones, 1994 |
3 | - | A Moveable Feast, undated |
3 | - | Unfiled poems, undated |
3 | - | Curvature 4, 1996 |
3 | - | Jacob, undated |
4 | - | Iron, August 1997 |
4 | - | Descendant, undated |
4 | - | Curvature Sequence, undated |
4 | - | Horseshoe Bend, undated |
4 | - | Manhattan, Alabama, Voi ch'intrate, undated |
4 | - | 3rd Shift, undated |
4 | - | Iron, undated |
4 | - | At Cornwall Furnace, undated |
4 | - | Eating Mark Strand, undated |
4 | - | Already, undated |
4 | - | Field Knowledge, undated |
4 | - | Orline, undated |
4 | - | Appalachian Phrases, undated |
4 | - | Fantasia for Charles Mingus, undated |
4 | - | His Voice Moved Stones, 2001 |
4 | - | The Echo of Its Echo, 2000 |
4 | - | Made Beasts Lie Down, undated |
4 | - | Trees Fall, undated |
4 | - | Wake, undated |
4 | - | Some November, undated |
4 | - | Until Its Hold is Gone, undated |
4 | - | Letter to be Wrapped around a 12-inch Disc, undated |
4 | - | Abide, collection of poems, late November 2012 |
4 | - | Abide, collection of poems, 1 October 2012 |
4 | - | Unfiled handwritten poems, 1995 |
5 | - | The Crooked Hour, undated |
5 | - | The Tree, 2012 |
6 | - | Poems for self-presentation, undated |
6 | - | Amora Australia, written while at Cornell, undated |
6 | - | Leaving Choctaw, undated |
6 | - | In a Country Church, undated |
6 | - | Couvade, undated |
6 | - | Wake, worksheets, January 1995 |
6 | - | August, undated |
6 | - | Gulf, undated |
6 | - | There, There, undated |
6 | - | Catch, undated |
6 | - | Feedback, undated |
6 | - | BLEW, undated |
6 | - | Recombinant, undated |
6 | - | Nighthouses 1/Aubade, undated |
6 | - | Assorted, unfiled, handwritten poetry, undated |
6 | - | Starling, Departing, undated |
6 | - | Will Not Consume, undated |
6 | - | The Famous Poet Reads Across Town, undated |
6 | - | Untitled poems, handwritten, undated |
6 | - | Old Man…, undated |
6 | - | Umbrage, undated |
6 | - | Untitled Poem in Progress, undated |
6 | - | Table, developing poem, undated |
6 | - | 1, Sestina, Roof/Child, World Trade Center Bombing, undated |
6 | - | Janney, loose drafts and notes, undated |
6 | - | Interference, et. al., Murder Ballads, undated |
6 | - | Young Poet Gone to Seed, undated |
6 | - | Curvature/drafts/workshop copies, 1995 |
6 | - | Curvature, loose and unfiled, undated |
6 | - | Curvature, June 1995 |
6 | - | Curvature drafts, 1996 |
6 | - | Curvature, early drafts, undated |
7 | - | Photo of my Mother as a Child, undated |
7 | - | Tuck, drafts, undated |
7 | - | At Sun Ra's Grave, My Brother the Wind, undated |
7 | - | Substantiation, undated |
7 | - | Murmuration, for Jimmie Lee Jackson, undated |
7 | - | Testimony, undated |
7 | - | A Murmuration of Starlings, undated |
7 | - | Mothlight, after Stan Brakhage, undated |
7 | - | Self-Portrait as a Field, undated |
7 | - | Self-Portrait Florida, undated |
7 | - | City of Grace, Jackson, including publication agreement, undated |
7 | - | Oxford/Faulkner, undated |
7 | - | Natchez, undated |
7 | - | Meditation/Elegy, undated |
7 | - | Collect, undated |
7 | - | Homochitto, undated |
7 | - | Anniston, 2009 |
7 | - | Persons Unknown, 2009 |
7 | - | A Natural History of Missouri, 2008 |
7 | - | Water Fountain, undated |
7 | - | St. Delay, undated |
7 | - | And Ever, undated |
7 | - | Angel of Evidence, 2007 |
7 | - | Hands of a Person Unknown, 2009 |
8 | - | Say what, undated |
8 | - | Current work as poems, undated |
8 | - | How I Got That Name, undated |
8 | - | Pop York's Eyes, undated |
8 | - | Black Panthers, undated |
8 | - | Home Movie, 2012 |
8 | - | Family Photographs, 2012 |
8 | - | Walking Denver, composition book, undated |
8 | - | Legba Says, composition book, undated |
8 | - | Interference, drafts and edits, 2002 |
8 | - | In the First Place, 2001 |
8 | - | Murder Ballads, chap, undated |
8 | - | Robbery, undated |
8 | - | A Tale Untold, 1992 |
8 | - | Rust, undated |
8 | - | Christmas, 1993 |
8 | - | Master of None, undated |
8 | - | Frozen Woman, 1995 |
8 | - | Stump, undated |
8 | - | Geography for Beginners, undated |
8 | - | Omissions, 2009 |
8 | - | Nocturne, undated |
8 | - | Hear Island, undated |
8 | - | American Novel, undated |
8 | - | Interferometry, undated |
8 | - | Wasps, undated |
8 | - | Morning Prayers, undated |
8 | - | Enormity/Empty Finger, undated |
8 | - | The Kiss: 20th, undated |
8 | - | August scraps, undated |
8 | - | Sacre-Coeur, undated |
8 | - | Rust and Feathers, undated |
8 | - | The Song of the Water, undated |
8 | - | The October Tide, undated |
8 | - | O, Wonderful Autumn, undated |
8 | - | Physical Algebra, undated |
8 | - | New Orleans, undated |
8 | - | A murmuring wind..., undated |
8 | - | Mind the Gap, undated |
8 | - | Monday, undated |
8 | - | Signal, undated |
8 | - | Hardsleep Knob, undated |
8 | - | Thirst, undated |
8 | - | In the Blind Man's House, undated |
9 | - | Translator/Before the Court Martial, undated |
9 | - | Making Love, undated |
9 | - | Beale St.,Singer, 1999 |
9 | - | Beale St., Businessman?, 1997 |
9 | - | Watermelon, undated |
9 | - | Beale St., Street Music, undated |
9 | - | Beale St., 1994 |
9 | - | Beale St., Trumpet, 1997 |
9 | - | Bread, undated |
9 | - | Orchard, undated |
9 | - | Rust, 1997 |
9 | - | Farmer Watches His Wife Go, undated |
9 | - | The Backward Cloth, undated |
9 | - | The Aging Mathematician Loses Time, undated |
9 | - | Junior Johnson, undated |
9 | - | Root, undated |
9 | - | South of Appomattox, undated |
9 | - | Confederate, undated |
9 | - | Returning, undated |
9 | - | Kudzu, undated |
9 | - | Shearing, undated |
9 | - | Sims/Dieuer, undated |
9 | - | Solstice, undated |
9 | - | Uncle Outside, undated |
9 | - | Short History of the Founding of Double Springs, undated |
9 | - | Corbiere: fa: "Paris," undated |
9 | - | Red Hand, undated |
9 | - | Bones, 1994 |
10 | - | Storymother, 1996 |
10 | - | Iron, 2000 |
10 | - | Alabama notebook, undated |
10 | - | Girl with Dog, undated |
10 | - | Nighthouses, undated |
10 | - | Milkman, undated |
10 | - | Abide, undated |
10 | - | Memphis Sestet/With Changes, undated |
10 | - | Local Weather, undated |
10 | - | Virgil Ware, Elegy, undated |
10 | - | Beer poetry, undated |
10 | - | Poetry Street, 2003 |
11 | - | Alabama Constitution, undated |
11 | - | Poetry from Kenyon College, undated |
12 | - | Corn, undated |
12 | - | Bones, draft pages, undated |
12 | - | Water, undated |
12 | - | Poetry scraps, undated |
12 | - | Graham's Forge, undated |
12 | - | Tomatoes, undated |
12 | - | Sermon/Preacher boy, WWJD, undated |
12 | - | Southern Cross/Exile, undated |
12 | - | Caesur/St. George and the Dragon, undated |
12 | - | Cicadas, undated |
12 | - | Cockroach, undated |
12 | - | Sunday Afternoon, undated |
12 | - | Sweet Chariot, undated |
12 | - | For Rod, undated |
12 | - | Evensong, undated |
12 | - | The White Morning..., undated |
12 | - | A Rainy Dream, undated |
12 | - | Resurrection, undated |
12 | - | Revenge, undated |
12 | - | Sleepy Eyes, A Vision, undated |
12 | - | Golgotha, undated |
12 | - | Les Ecoliers Curieux, undated |
12 | - | Virginia, undated |
12 | - | Snow, undated |
12 | - | Adam's Apple, undated |
12 | - | A Marat, undated |
12 | - | Balance, undated |
12 | - | Shalako, Surely the Rats Slept..., undated |
12 | - | Warwoman, undated |
12 | - | Gold Hill, undated |
12 | - | Tobacco, undated |
12 | - | Hawk-wing, Hopkins, undated |
12 | - | Indian Woman, undated |
12 | - | Forge, undated |
12 | - | Fountain of Youth, undated |
12 | - | Forget, undated |
12 | - | Fire, undated |
12 | - | Poteat/Lightbox/Eroteme, undated |
12 | - | Psalm 6, undated |
12 | - | Jesus, undated |
12 | - | Landing, undated |
12 | - | Handler, 2004 |
12 | - | Abide, undated |
12 | - | What Is Given, What Is Made, undated |
12 | - | If You Can Speak, undated |
12 | - | You Tree Table of Contents, undated |
12 | - | Capital to My Brother's Bar, undated |
12 | - | Larimar and Environs, undated |
12 | - | 19 April 2005 |
12 | - | The 1500 m Freestyle and the Long Poem, undated |
13 | - | Shroud, undated |
13 | - | In Todd's House, undated |
13 | - | Lyre, undated |
13 | - | Letter/Inside Twombly, undated |
13 | - | Postscript written on a J-card, undated |
13 | - | Letter on a Record Sleeve, for Moran, undated |
13 | - | Tapeworm, undated |
15 | - | The Odour of Verse, Book One: Ed with pushpins, composition book, undated |
15 | - | Slave's War/Two Wars, composition book, undated |
15 | - | President, composition book, undated |
15 | - | Baudelaire, composition book, undated |
15 | - | Poems, composition, October 2000 |
15 | - | George Sandy's Metamorphoses, composition book, undated |
15 | - | Poem exercises, composition book, undated |
15 | - | Cedar Chest, composition book, undated |
15 | - | Curvature, August 1996, composition book, undated |
15 | - | West, composition book, undated |
15 | - | Barbecue, composition book, September 1997 |
15 | - | Striations/Bones, composition book, 1994 |
15 | - | Poetry journals, 1993-2000 |
19 | - | Ekphrasis, undated |
19 | - | Memphis Sestet, undated |
19 | - | A Murmuration of Starlings, composition book, undated |
19 | - | Knoxville Girl, undated |
20 | - | Mano, undated |
20 | - | Abide, undated |
Poetry written by others | ||
5 | - | Poem from Marc Laughton sent via email, 2010 |
5 | - | From Ralph Hammond from Arab, AL, former poet laureate of AL, undated |
6 | - | Poems from Hjosh Kalscheur, undated |
7 | - | McQuillian, Learning Angels, undated |
7 | - | McQuerry, Lacemakers, undated |
8 | - | John Donne, Meditation Poem, undated |
8 | - | Krikalev, last Soviet Cosmonaut, undated |
10 | - | Apostrophe to the Tallapoosa, undated |
10 | - | Simmons Buntin, undated |
11 | - | Student poetry from Kenyon College, 2011 |
11 | - | Poetry by Courtney Charles sent via email, 2011 |
12 | - | Poetry by Jennifer Bannister, undated |