Slow Trains Overhead

Chicago Poems and Stories

Автор: Reginald Gibbons

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Издател: The University of Chicago Press

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Автор

Reginald Gibbons

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2010

страници

136

EAN

9780226290584

ISBN

0226290581

Enbook ID

04545107

Издател

The University of Chicago Press

Теглоt

281

Размери

140 x 216 x 14

Пълно описание

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 L 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 living portrait of Chicago as luminously detailed and powerful as those of Nelson Algren and Carl Sandburg. Gibbons takes the reader from museums and neighborhood life to tense proceedings in Juvenile Court, from comically noir-tinged scenes at a store on Clark Street to midnight immigrants at a gas station on Western Avenue, and from a child's piggy bank to nature in urban spaces. For Gibbons, the city's people, places, and historical reverberations are a compelling human array of the everyday and the extraordinary, of poverty and beauty, of the experience of being one among many. Penned by one of its most prominent writers, "Slow Trains Overhead" evokes and commemorates human life in a great city.

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