Wild Hundreds

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

Winner, Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry PrizeWinner, 2016 BCALA Literary AwardFinalist, 2015 NAACP Image AwardWinner, 2017 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers AwardWild 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-09-09
Mått:152 x 229 x 2 mm
Vikt:136 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Pitt Poetry Series
Antal sidor:80
Förlag:University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:9780822963837

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Nate Marshall is from the South Side of Chicago. He is a Cave Canem Fellow whose work has appeared in Poetry magazine, New Republic, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. He is coeditor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop.Marshall has won the Hurston/Wright Founding Members Award and the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award. He is a visiting assistant professor of English at Wabash College, a member of the poetry collective Dark Noise, and also a rapper.

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Marshall's poetry offers an insider's perspective that asks the reader to parse the sociopolitical systems that imperil black lives—not through abstract ideology, but through authentically rendered eyes: "every kid that's killed is one less free lunch,/ a fiscal coup. welcome to where we from.