Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories

by Reginald Gibbons

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226290581
• ISBN13: 9780226290584
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.8"