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Wild hundreds /

Marshall, Nate (Poet),

Wild hundreds / WildHundreds. Nate Marshall. - viii, 69 pages ; 23 cm. - Pitt poetry series. . - Pitt poetry series. .

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 -- 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 -- 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 &. the the

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.

Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, 2014.

9780822963837 (paperback : acidfree paper) 0822963833 (paperback : acidfree paper)


American poetry--21st century.


Chicago (Ill.)--Poetry.

PS3613.A77555 / A6 2015

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