文档介绍：Persons Unknown
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
e di t or’s s e l e c t ion
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Persons Unknown
j a k e a d a m y o r k
Crab Orchard Review
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Southern Illinois University Press
carbondale and edwardsville
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Copyright © 2010 by Jake Adam York
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
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The Crab Orchard Series in Poetry is a joint publishing venture of
Southern Illinois University Press and Crab Orchard Review. This
series has been made possible by the generous support of the Office
of the President of Southern Illinois University and the Office of the
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost at Southern Illinois
University Carbondale.
Publication was partially funded by a grant from the University of
Colorado–Denver.
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Editor: Jon Tribble
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
York, Jake Adam.
Persons unknown / Jake Adam York.
p. cm. —(Crab orchard series in poetry)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-2998-4 (alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8093-2998-0 (alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-8578-2 (ebook)
ISBN-10: 0-8093-8578-3 (ebook)
I. Title.
2010
811'.6—dc22 2010013040
Printed on recycled paper.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements
of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence
of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI -1992.
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Anyway, he stayed, watching the two creatures that struggled
in the one body like two moon-gleamed shapes struggling
drowning in alternate throes upon the surface of a black
thick pool beneath the last moon.
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It seems like a man can just about bear anything. He
can even bear