Slow trains overhead : Chicago poems and stories /

Slow trains overhead : Chicago poems and stories /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gibbons, Reginald.
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource (110 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Chicago (Ill.) -- Poetry. Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction. Illinois -- Chicago. Electronic books. Fiction. Poetry.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11215621

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ISBN:	9780226290614 0226290611 9780226290584 0226290581
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	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 li.
Other form:	Print version: Gibbons, Reginald. Slow trains overhead. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2010 9780226290584

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