Wild Hundreds

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8229-6383-7
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press

Buch, Englisch, 80 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 146 g

Reihe: Pitt Poetry Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marshall, Nate

Marshall, Nate A

Über Autor(innen)

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.