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Title

A Detroit anthology / edited by Anna Clark.

Publication

[Cleveland, OH] : Rust Belt Chic Press, [2014]

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Additional Authors

Clark, Anna (Anna Leigh)

Description

240 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

Detroit is a city of stories. In this, we are rich. We begin with abundance. But while much is written about our city these hard days, it is typically meant to explain Detroit to those who live elsewhere. Much of this writing is brilliant, but our anthology, this anthology, is different: it is a collection of Detroit stories for Detroiters. Through essays, photographs, poetry, and art, this anthology collects the stories we tell each other over late nights at the pub and long afternoons on the porch. We share them in coffee shops, at church social hours, in living rooms, and while waiting for the bus. These are stories addressed to the rhetorical you with the ratcheted up language that comes with it and these are stories that took real legwork to investigate. We may be lifelong residents, newcomers, or former Detroiters; we may be activists, workers, teachers, artists, healers, or students. But a common undercurrent alights our work that is collected here: we are a city moving through the fire of transformation. We are afire. Featuring essays, photographs, poetry, and art by Terry Blackhawk, Grace Lee Boggs, John Carlisle, Desiree Cooper, Dream Hampton, Francine J. Harris, Steve Hughes, Jamaal May, Tracie McMillan, Ken Mikolowski, Marsha Music, Shaka Senghor, Thomas J. Sugrue, and many others.

Subject

• Essays
• Essais (Genre littéraire)
• essays
• Manners and customs
• Detroit (Mich.) > Anecdotes
• Detroit (Mich.) > Social life and customs
• Detroit (Mich.) > Literary collections
• Detroit (Mich.) > Poetry
• Detroit (Mich.) > Fiction
• Detroit (Mich.) > Pictorial works
• Michigan > Detroit

Genre/Form

• Anecdotes.
• Fiction.
• Literary collections.
• Pictorial works.
• Poetry.

Awards (note)

• A 2015 Michigan Notable Books selection
• Michigan Notable Book, 2015

Contents

• Overture : Introduction / Anna Clark -- Act I : We love Detroit, even if you don't / Aaron Foley -- Notown / Thomas J. Sugrue -- I'm from Detroit / Shannon Shelton Miller -- Turner Ronald Carter the Third / Kat Harrison -- Gas station on Second Street / Matthew Olzmann -- Hommage à l'avenir: Desire lines / Michael Eugene Burdick, Francis Grunow -- Things I lost in the fire / dream hampton -- Letter from Detroit / Ingrid Norton -- Infernal / Tyehimba Jess -- Greektown 1983 / John Counts -- Coming soon / Nichole Christian -- what you'd find buried in the dirt under charles f. kettering sr. high school (detroit, michigan) / francine. j. harris -- Fort Gratiot / Steven Pomerantz -- Sketches of Eastern Market / Nina Misuraca Ignaczak -- When the trees stop giving fruit / Shaka Senghor -- Hungry days in Detroit / Tracie McMillan -- There are birds here / Jamaal May -- Per fumum / Jamaal May -- Desolation angel / John Carlisle -- Detroit: A city of superheroes / Ingrid LaFleur -- Hommage à l'avenir: Streetcar tracks / Michael Eugene Burdick, Francis Grunow -- Legally blind in the Motor City: A pedestrian's lament / Pamela Sabaugh -- On the automobile / Rachel Reed -- Carlessness / John G. Rodwan Jr. -- The line / Maisha Hyman Sumbry -- January in Detroit / Ken Mikolowski -- Trembling in the temple of tears at the feet of Buddha / M.L. Liebler
• Intermission : For the long haul / Desiree Cooper -- Still of it / adrienne maree brown -- In the house where poetry lives / Peter Markus -- Belle Isle song / Nandi Comer -- The Imam I knew / Omar Syed Mahmood -- The fixer / John Carlisle -- The next move / Ryan Healy -- Hommage à l'avenir: Ghost shops / Michael Eugene Burdick, Francis Grunow -- The fauxtopias of Detroit's suburbs / James D. Griffioen -- Act II : My Detroit / Joseph Lichterman -- By the time this reaches you / Deonte Osayande -- Music as the missing link / Keith A. Owens -- Awakening / Maisha Hyman Sumbry -- Game not over / Veronica Grandison -- Misguided faith / Karen Minard -- Learning to roll our tongues, Detroit 1986 / Nandi Comer -- Up in the morning & off to school in Detroit / Tracey Morris -- Hommage à l'avenir: Apartments v. houses / Michael Eugene Burdick, Francis Grunow -- Stand / Steve Hughes -- SOBs and dummies / Karen Minard -- Down in Detroit / Terry Blackhawk -- Playing ball / J.M. Leija -- Night, Briggs Stadium, 1960 / Gail Griffin -- Lost in hockeytown / Matthew Lewis, Aaron Mondry -- Hommage à l'avenir: Streetlights / Michael Eugene Burdick, Francis Grunow -- Lily-livered New Yorker seeks lion-hearted Detroiters / Jaclyn Trop -- Motown Atlantis / Chantay "Legacy" Leonard -- Strange city / Chantay "Legacy" Leonard -- The Detroit virus / Shaun S. Nethercott -- Detroit's good-food cure / Larry Gabriel -- Planting seeds of hope / Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige -- The kidnapped children of Detroit / Marsha Music.

ISBN

• 0985944145
• 9780985944148

LCCN

2018303409

OCLC

• ocn881325085
• 881325085
• SCSB-14300013

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries