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Slow trains overhead : Chicago poems and stories /

Few people writing today could successfully combine an intimate knowledge of Chicago with a poet's eye, and capture what it's really like to live in this remarkable city. Embracing a striking variety of human experience--a chance encounter with a veteran on Belmont Avenue, the grimy majest...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gibbons, Reginald
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
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  • Adams & Wabash
  • A meeting
  • Pears or peaches
  • Ode: citizens
  • Avian time
  • Elsewhere children
  • A car
  • Milwaukee & Division
  • Small business
  • Forsaken in the city
  • A large heavy-faced woman, pocked, unkempt, in a loose dress
  • Admiration
  • A leap
  • Mekong Restaurant
  • City
  • Wonder
  • Ode: at a twenty-four-hour gas station
  • Enough
  • The vanishing point
  • Just imagine
  • On sad suburban afternoons of autumn
  • Broadway & Argyle
  • Slow motion
  • Sparrow
  • An aching young man
  • Oh
  • Boy on a busy corner
  • A man in a suit
  • Hungry man raids supermarket
  • The blue dress
  • The affect of elms
  • Red Line Howard/95th
  • Mission
  • Rich pale pink
  • Friday snow
  • Nonna
  • State & Wacker
  • On Belmont
  • Christmas
  • Celebration
  • No matter what has happened this May.