| Description |
x, 135 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Shikaakwa -- Iasalle wrote it down wrong -- The father is a black man -- The treaty of Chicago -- Hog butcher for the world -- Albert Parsons can hang -- How to be down -- The L gets open -- The white city -- Eugene Debs reads Marx in prison -- Reversing the flow of the Chicago river -- The great migration -- The eastland disaster -- The murder of Eugene Williams -- Society for human rights (America's first gay rights organization) -- Thomas Dorsey, gospel's daddy -- Gwendolyn Brooks stands in the mecca -- Hansberry vs. Lee -- Muddy waters goes electric -- Nelson Algren meets Simone de Beauvior at the palmer house -- Pickle with a peppermint stick -- Sun Ra becomes a synthesizer -- Hugh Hefner, a play boy -- Mamie Till bears the movement -- King Daley unfurls his burnham plan -- The division street riots -- Martin Luther King prays in marquette park -- Studs Terkel drops a mixtape -- Carl Sandburg village (where my parents met) -- Wall of respect -- Africobra -- The Assassination of chairman Fred Hampton -- Don L. Lee becomes Haki Madhubuti -- The Chicago 21 plan -- Leaving aldine -- Ode to steppin -- Disco demolition -- Mayor Byrne moves into & out of cabrini green -- Ron Hardy plays the record backwards -- The assassination of Rudy Lozano -- Marc Smith invents the poetry slam -- Collateral damage -- The day Harold died -- Patronage -- Fresh to death -- Moleman beat tapes -- Graffiti blasters: an erasure (A buff) -- The violent crime control & law enforcement act -- The etymology of Chicago Joe -- Common's resurrection -- The supreme court makes color illegal -- Erasing the green -- Ida B. Wells testifies in the ghost town -- How to teach poetry in Chicago public schools -- Lenard Clark pedals for air -- Baby come on: an ode to footwork -- A moratorium on the death penalty -- Praise the house party -- Dia de las Madres -- Kanye says what's on everybody's mind -- I wasn't in Grant Park when Obama was elected -- Republic windows workers sit in -- The night the modern wing was bombed -- When King Louie first heard the word chiraq -- An elegy for Dr. Margaret Burroughs -- A dedication to the inaugural poet. -- Memoir of the Red X -- Chief Keef's epiphany at Lollapalooza -- Teachers' strike in Chicago tradition -- During ramadan the gates of heaven are open -- Ms. Devine explains the meaning of modern art: -- A found poem -- Two cities celebrate Independence Day -- We charge genocide -- Atoning for the neoliberal in all -- Or Rahm Emanuel as the chicken on kapparot -- 400 days -- The night the Cubs win the world series -- Chicago has my heart. |
| Subject |
Chicago (Ill.) -- Poetry.
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| Genre |
Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Chance the Rapper, writer of foreword.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| ISBN |
9781608466719 |
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160846671X |
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