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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »

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   Chronic City

   Jonathan Lethem

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An amazing compilation from Chicago's weekly poetry readings at the Guild Complex, the award-winning, cross-cultural literary center. Revolutionary chants and resonating love poetry presented by a diverse group, including Carolyn Kizer, Bob Holman, Adrienne Rich, Quincy Troupe, Wanda Coleman, Patricia Smith, and Yusef Komunyakaa. Studs Terkel says the Guild Complex represents in the writers and performers the vision of a city of flesh and blood, men and women, rather than a city of things.
Recommended by Kevin Sampsell, Powell's City of Books

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K Magill, August 5, 2008 (view all comments by K Magill)
One of my very favorite anthologies of American poetry: it contains such a wide range of voices, all tied together by a sense of place. These poems breathe Chicago.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9781882688227

Subtitle:

A Decade of Poetry from Chicago's Guild Complex

Author:

Parson-nesbitt, Julie

Editor:

Rodriguez, Luis J.

Editor:

Warr, Michael

Editor:

Rodriguez, Luis J.; Warr, Michael; Parson-Nesbitt, Julie

Editor:

Parson-Nesbitt, Julie

Publisher:

Tia Chucha Press

Location:

Chicago :

Subject:

Anthologies (multiple authors)

Subject:

American poetry

Subject:

Poetry

Subject:

20th century

Subject:

American poetry (collections)

Subject:

Chicago

Series Volume:

1c

Publication Date:

October 1999

Binding:

Paperback

Language:

English

Pages:

199

Dimensions:

908x600x58 72