Title:
Wild hundreds / Nate Marshall.
Author:
Marshall, Nate (Poet), author.
Publication Information:
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2015]
©2015
Call Number:
POETRY MARSHALL 2015
Abstract:
Wild Hundreds is a long love song to Chicago. The book celebrates the people, culture, and places often left out of the civic discourse and the travel guides. Wild Hundreds is a book that displays the beauty of black survival and mourns the tragedy of black death.
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ISBN:
9780822963837
Series:
Pitt poetry series
Pitt poetry series.
Physical Description:
viii, 69 pages ; 23 cm.
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Contents:
repetition & repetition & -- pronounce -- Fame Food & Liquor -- god made the hundreds, man made it wild -- Harold's Chicken Shack #1 -- Granddaddy was the neighborhood -- buying new shoes -- Chicago high school love letters -- out south -- palindrome -- Foot Locker -- 1st love song to the black girl at smart camp -- niggaicouldhavebeen #1 -- candy store -- Chicago high school love letters -- the break -- Harold's Chicken Shack #35 -- learning gang handshakes -- hood woods.
Mama says -- Ragtown prayer -- in the land where whitefolk jog -- Chicago high school love letters -- landing -- Alzheimer's -- on being called a nigger in Ann Arbor, MI, on South University Street by a drunk ticket scalper -- Chicago high school love letters -- prelude -- Indian summer -- when it comes back -- pallbearers -- Chicago high school love letters -- praise song.
the last graduation -- the first graduation -- Harold's Chicken Shack #86 -- directions -- off white -- juke -- church in the wild -- Chicago high school love letter -- picking flowers -- undress -- cut -- recycling -- repetition & repetition &.
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Poems. Selections
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