The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry

Jake Adam York

Taylor & Francis, May 1, 2004 - Literary Criticism - 256 pages

The Architecture of Address traces the evolution of an American species of lyric capable of public pronouncement without polemic. Beginning with Whitman, Jake Adam York seeks to describe a kind of poem wherein the most ambitious poets - including Hart Crane and Robert Lowell - occupy and reconstruct important public spaces. 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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This book evolved from my dissertation. Apparently someone likes it, though I still don't know why anyone would read it.

About the author

Jake Adam York is an associate professor of English at the University of Colorado-Denver. His first book of poems, "Murder Ballads," was published in 2005. His poems have appeared in such journals as "Blackbird," "Diagram," "Greensboro Review," "Gulf"" Coast," "H_NGM_N," "New Orleans Review," "Shenandoah," and "Southern Review," York was raised in northeast Alabama.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry; Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory: Outstanding Dissertations
• Author: Jake Adam York
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2004
• ISBN: 0203491068, 9780203491065
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / General