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- Wild Hundreds
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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Winner, 2017 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award (poetry category)
Winner, 2016 BCALA Literary Award (poetry category)
Winner of the 2014 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards (poetry category)
Wild Hundreds is a long love song to Chicago. The book celebrates the people, culture, and places often left out of the civic discourse and the travel guides. Wild Hundreds is a book that displays the beauty of black survival and mourns the tragedy of black death.
Winner, 2016 BCALA Literary Award (poetry category)
Winner of the 2014 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards (poetry category)
Wild Hundreds is a long love song to Chicago. The book celebrates the people, culture, and places often left out of the civic discourse and the travel guides. Wild Hundreds is a book that displays the beauty of black survival and mourns the tragedy of black death.
Table of Contents
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- i.
- buying new shoes
- p. 10
- palindrome
- p. 13
- Foot Locker
- p. 14
- candy store
- pp. 17-18
- hood woods
- p. 24
- ii.
- Ragtown prayer
- pp. 30-31
- in the land where whitefolk jog
- pp. 32-33
- Alzheimer’s
- p. 36
- Indian summer
- p. 40
- when it comes back
- pp. 41-42
- pallbearers
- pp. 43-44
- praise song
- pp. 46-48
- iii.
- the last graduation
- p. 51
- the first graduation
- p. 52
- directions
- p. 54
- church in the wild
- p. 58
- picking flowers
- p. 60
- repetition & repetition &
- pp. 65-66
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 67-69
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822981084
Related ISBN(s)
9780822963837
MARC Record
OCLC
915158771
Pages
77
Launched on MUSE
2015-08-26
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2015