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Jake Adam York (August 10, 1972December 16, 2012) was an American poet. He published three books of poetry before his death: ''Murder Ballads'', which won the 2005 Elixir Prize in Poetry; ''A Murmuration of Starlings'', which won the 2008 Colorado Book Award in Poetry; and ''Persons Unknown,'' an editor's selection in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. A fourth book, ''Abide'', was released posthumously, in 2014. That same year he was also named a posthumous recipient of the Witter Bynner Fellowship by the U.S. Poet Laureate. ==Life== York was born in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1972 to David and Linda York, who worked respectively as a steelworker and history teacher.〔(Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey ), Southern Spaces, Emory University, accessed Dec. 17, 2012.〕 Shortly after York's birth he and his parents moved back to Alabama, where five generations of York's family had lived.〔(POETRY WIRE: REMEMBERING JAKE ADAM YORK, 1972-2012 ) BY DAVID BIESPIEL, The Rumpus, Dec. 17, 2012. Accessed Dec. 17, 2012.〕 York spent the rest of his youth in Gadsden, Alabama, where he lived in a rural house and shared a bedroom with his brother, Joe.〔"(Jake Adam York, poet who chronicled Civil Rights movement, dies at 40 )" by Claire Martin, The Denver Post, Dec. 18, 2012.〕 York was a big fan of rap music, including LL Cool J and Run DMC, and covered his bedroom in posters of his favorite rappers.〔 As his brother Joe later said, Jake was a "15-year-old kid in northeast Alabama in 1988, where white boys didn't listen to rap. But he did, and he loved it. Listening to those guys really tapped into his love of playing with language. He went to college to become an architect, but after two quarters at Auburn — and he was an A student — he became more interested in the architecture that holds our lives together."〔 York graduated from Southside High School in Gadsden in 1990 and that year started at Auburn University, where he eventually earned a B.A. in English. He then received his M.F.A. and Ph.D. in creative writing and English literature from Cornell University.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jake Adam York」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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