Wild hundreds
Book - 2015
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.
- Subjects
- Published
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press
[2015]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- viii, 69 pages ; 23 cm
- Awards
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, 2014
- ISBN
- 9780822963837
- i.
- 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
- ii.
- 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
- iii.
- 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 &
- Acknowledgments
Review by Library Journal Review