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Wild hundreds / Nate Marshall.

Title
Wild hundreds / Nate Marshall.
Author
Marshall, Nate
Publication
  • Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Description
viii, 69 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
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.
Series Statement
Pitt poetry series
Uniform Title
  • Poems. Selections
  • Project Muse UPCC books.
  • Pitt poetry series.
Alternative Title
  • Poems.
  • WildHundreds
Subject
  • 2000-2099
  • American poetry > 21st century
  • African Americans > Chicago > Poetry
  • Chicago (Ill.) > Poetry
Genre/Form
Poetry
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Awards (note)
  • Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, 2014
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 &.
ISBN
  • 9780822963837
  • 0822963833
OCLC
910334485
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library