Everything must go : the life and death of an American neighborhood

Everything must go The life and death of an American neighborhood

Kevin Coval

Book - 2019

"Everything Must Go is an illustrated collection of poems in the spirit of a graphic novel, a collaboration between poet Kevin Coval and illustrator Langston Allston. The book celebrates Chicago's Wicker Park in the late 1990's, Coval's home as a young artist, the ancestral neighborhood of his forebears, and a vibrant enclave populated by colorful characters. Allston's illustrations honor the neighborhood as it once was, before gentrification remade it. The book excavates and mourns that which has been lost in transition and serves as a template for understanding the process of displacement and reinvention currently reshaping American cities."--Provided by publisher.

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Subjects
Gentrification > Poetry.
Chicago (Ill.) > Poetry.
Poetry.
Genres
Poetry
Published
Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books 2019.
Language
English
Main Author
Kevin Coval (author)
Other Authors
Langston Allston (illustrator)
Physical Description
102 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN
9781642590265
9781642591750
  • A Brief History
  • 1750 W. Haddon
  • Welcome to Wicker Park
  • Portrait of the Artist in the Hood
  • White on the Block
  • Jayson
  • D is Our Other Roommate
  • Mr. Rooster
  • The Landlord
  • Boy Becomes Man
  • Cafe Matou
  • The Jobs
  • Saviors of El Barrio
  • Urbis Orbis
  • Rudy
  • Earwax
  • 1108 N. Hermitage
  • Rave
  • The Bop Shop
  • Lit-X
  • Denizen
  • Anna
  • We were just a Phase
  • The Time I Was Homeless & The Car was also a Bank
  • Ode to the Waitress
  • Ode to 22s in a Brown Paper Bag
  • The 6-Way on the Sabbath
  • All the Men on the Ave
  • Oba
  • The Gallerist
  • Thigahmahjiggee
  • David
  • The Oil & Incense Man
  • 1037 N. Damen
  • How I Met Idris (The Remix)
  • Jack + Juicy
  • A Girl From The Neighborhood
  • Ode to the Dive Bar
  • The Tamale Guy
  • Drive by in Humboldt Park
  • Song for the Old Bowling Alley
  • Ode to the Old Barbers
  • Ode to the Women Who Clean My Unmentionables
  • New Construction
  • First Fridays
  • The Real World
  • The Pre-Fixe is in
  • Pioneers
  • Give Us a Poem
  • I Go to the Girl from the Neighborhood
  • Everything Must Go
Review by Booklist Review

Coval (A People's History of Chicago, 2017) rhapsodizes about his hometown of Chicago in this latest poetry collection. Accompanied by Langston Allston's illustrations, this series of profiles, vignettes, and discursive rants present a time capsule of late-1990s Chicago, when Coval returned to his family's old neighborhood in Wicker Park to settle and make a life of his own. A Portrait of the Artist in the Hood expresses the poet's inner conflict about moving back: what does it mean when we appear / the children of white flight / back / again . In laments over gentrification, Coval speaks for his neighbors and a neighborhood that slowly and detrimentally changes over time. Progressive anthems spring up, hailing the rewards of difficult, service-oriented work as in ""Café Matou,"" which sonorously describes each staff member and their impact on the poet's life and ""Ode to the Waitress,"" which showers idiosyncratic compliments to all who have waited on him. Coval's poems are accessible even as the references are personal, and Allston's drawings strengthen the connection. Chicago, in all its breaking and rebuilding, is portrayed honestly here and with a touch of hope.--Michael Ruzicka Copyright 2010 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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