| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 69 pages) |
| Series |
Pitt poetry series |
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Pitt poetry series.
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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 & |
| 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 |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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FICTION -- General.
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POETRY -- American -- African American.
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American poetry
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| SUBJECT |
Chicago (Ill.) -- Poetry
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| Subject |
Illinois -- Chicago
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Poetry
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822981084 |
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0822981084 |
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