By Jake Adam York on Sep 4, 9:00 PM | 0 | 0 Comments

McFight

In tonight's speech, John McCain uses the word "I" more than any other. He uses the word "fight" (20 times) more than "country" (16 times).

Among the words used only once:

  • dependence
  • happiness
  • reason
  • citizen
  • earth
  • character
  • community
  • decent
  • wage
  • diplomatic

Barack Obama's speech by contrast has these among its most frequent words:

  • promise (31)
  • America (26)
  • American (18)
  • Country (16)

Obama uses "fight" only twice.

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Poems


  • "Double Negatives" at ConnotationPress.com
  • Two poems at Anti- (Finalist for the 2008 Sundress Best of the Net)
  • "A Field Guide To Northeast Alabama" (four poems on video) at Southern Spaces
  • "At Liberty" and "Love"at Memorious
  • "The Crowd He Becomes" at DIAGRAM
  • "At Genesse," "Aubade," "DeSoto, After," and "In Arizona When Howard Finster Dies" at Diode
  • Selections from A Map of the County at RealPoetik
  • "At Liberty," "Substantiation," "For Reverend James Reeb," and "For Lamar Smith" at Blackbird
  • "Bunk Richardson," "Consolation," "On Tallaseehatchee Creek," and "Vigil" at Blackbird
  • "Vigil," "Negatives," and "Elegy for James Knox" at Campbell Corner
  • "Walt Whitman in Alabama," "Hush," "Negatives" and "York" at Colorado Poets Center
  • "Signal" at DIAGRAM
  • "Elegy for James Knox" at DIAGRAM
  • "Interferometry" at Greensboro Review
  • "Aubade," "Doppler," "What You Wish For," "Under," "Fell," "Heat," and "Regret/Egret" at H_NGM_N
  • "Legba Says" in Octopus
  • "Still" and "Bye Bye Blackbird/Blackbird Bye Bye" at Shampoo
  • "Panoramic: Landscape With Repeating Figures," "Double Exposure" and "Elegy for Little Girls" at Terrain.org
  • "Virga," "Radiotherapy," and "Diphthong" at Typo
  • "Radiotherapy" at Poetry 365.


    • Interviews


  • With Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces
  • With New South
  • With Blackbird, in text and audio.
  • With Kate Greenstreet (first book interview)
  • With Dislocate's Nate Slawson
  • With Town Creek Poetry


    • Reviews


  • Ron Slate's review of A Murmuration of Starlings
  • Bruce Alford's review of A Murmuration of Starlings for the Alabama Writers Forum
  • Microreview of A Murmuration of Starlings at Yalobusha Review
  • Simmons Buntin's microreview of A Murmuration of Starlings
  • Susan Settlemyre Williams's review of Murder Ballads at Blackbird
  • Simmons Buntin's review of Murder Ballads at Terrain.org.
  • Clay Matthews's review of Murder Ballads at H_NGM_N
  • Jeff Newberry's review of Murder Ballads at Poetry Southeast


    • Essays &c

  • "The Marrow of the Bone of Contention: A Barbecue Journal" at storySouth, a 2003 Arts & Letters Daily Article of Note
  • An introduction to Alabama barbecue, on the Southern BBQ Trail at the Southern Foodways Alliance
  • "Recovery: Learning the Music of History" at Terrain.org
  • Five favorite poems at JMWW

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    I am the author of three books of poems: Murder Ballads (Elixir Press 2005); A Murmuration of Starlings (Southern Illinois University Press 2008) the winner of the 2008 Colorado Book Award in Poetry; and Persons Unknown, forthcoming in 2010 from Southern Illinois University Press.

    You can find new work in issues of The Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and Blackbird.


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