Slow trains overhead : Chicago poems and stories /
Gibbons, Reginald.
Slow trains overhead : Chicago poems and stories / Reginald Gibbons. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (110 pages)
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.
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 majesty of the downtown El tracks, domestic violence in a North Side brownstone, the wide-eyed wonder of new arrivals at O'Hare, and much more--these new and selected poems and stories by Reginald Gibbons celebrate the heady mix of elation and despair that is city life. With Slow Trains Overhead, he has rendered a li.
9780226290614 (electronic bk.) 0226290611 (electronic bk.) (hardcover ; alk. paper) (hardcover ; alk. paper)
FICTION--General.
Chicago (Ill.)--Poetry.
Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction.
Illinois--Chicago.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Fiction.
Poetry.
PS3557.I1392 / S57 2010eb
813/.54
Slow trains overhead : Chicago poems and stories / Reginald Gibbons. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (110 pages)
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.
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 majesty of the downtown El tracks, domestic violence in a North Side brownstone, the wide-eyed wonder of new arrivals at O'Hare, and much more--these new and selected poems and stories by Reginald Gibbons celebrate the heady mix of elation and despair that is city life. With Slow Trains Overhead, he has rendered a li.
9780226290614 (electronic bk.) 0226290611 (electronic bk.) (hardcover ; alk. paper) (hardcover ; alk. paper)
FICTION--General.
Chicago (Ill.)--Poetry.
Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction.
Illinois--Chicago.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Fiction.
Poetry.
PS3557.I1392 / S57 2010eb
813/.54