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19%OFFReginald Gibbons - Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories - 9780226478845 - V9780226478845
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Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories

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Description for Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 15. .
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226478845
SKU
V9780226478845
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-20

About Reginald Gibbons
Reginald Gibbons is a poet, fiction writer, translator, and essayist. At Northwestern University, he is professor of English and classics, director of the Center for the Writing Arts, and codirector of the MA/MFA Program in Creative Writing. His most recent poetry collection, Creatures of a Day, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award.

Reviews for Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories
[Gibbons] chronicles the beautiful chaos of his adopted hometown, its furious pace and its powerful history, a history tucked into the creases between the great buildings like a love note left in a school locker.
Julia Keller Chicago Tribune Slow Trains Overhead is a book of incessant crossings and intersections. Reginald Gibbons's formidable trains resist expedient ... Read more

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