Wild hundreds
Publication Information
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2015]
Physical Description
viii, 69 pages ; 23 cm.
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Summary
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.
Contents
- repetition & repetition &
- pronounce
- Fame Food & Liquor
- god made the hundreds, man made it wild
- Harold's Chicken Shack #1
- Granddaddy was the neighborhood
- buying new shoes
- Chicago high school love letters
- out south
- palindrome
- Foot Locker
- 1st love song to the black girl at smart camp
- niggaicouldhavebeen #1
- candy store
- Chicago high school love letters
- the break
- Harold's Chicken Shack #35
- learning gang handshakes
- hood woods.
- Mama says
- Ragtown prayer
- in the land where whitefolk jog
- Chicago high school love letters
- landing
- Alzheimer's
- on being called a nigger in Ann Arbor, MI, on South University Street by a drunk ticket scalper
- Chicago high school love letters
- prelude
- Indian summer
- when it comes back
- pallbearers
- Chicago high school love letters
- praise song.
- the last graduation
- the first graduation
- Harold's Chicken Shack #86
- directions
- off white
- juke
- church in the wild
- Chicago high school love letter
- picking flowers
- undress
- cut
- recycling
- repetition & repetition &.