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TRANSECTs is a collection of typographic poems and photographs.

"In her fourth book of poems, Mexican-born Olivia Maciel lyrically evokes another America. She writes with the critical and contemplative eye of a poet, revealing mystery and beauty in places dark and light, near and far." *

The Green Lantern Press and ThreeWalls are proud to announce the printing of an alternative artspace/non-profit gallery book. This book will include listings, locations, contact information and annual programming for national artspaces. By printing PHONEBOOK we hope to create a single resource, useful to arts administrators, artists, and tourists alike, that outlines a network. Hopefully through a heightened awareness of one another we can support and enhance our own various practices.

Book of poetry, monologues, prose poetry, and a short story describing an unnamed character who grabbles with life a fictional neighborhood, Hardscrabble. Also described as the South Side of Chicago.

Guidebook for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893.

This is a biography written about Carlos Zambrano, a Chicago Cubs baseball pitcher/player. This short story documents his life to the present, showcasing the start of his life in Venezuela, the importance of his Christian faith, and how became a baseball player for the Chicago Cubs.

"Tribune Tower" is a description of the architectural plans for the Chicago Tribune Tower. The design was selected through an open competition with a $100,000 prize.

"A Latino National Conversation: Readings on Assimilation" is a diverse compiliation of opinions and writings on Latino American assimilation. The book was published by the Great Books Foundation, "an independent, nonprofit educational organization whose mission is to help people learn how to think and share ideas."

"A Call to Action is a poignant and uncompromising analysis of the criminal/justice system which spends millions of dollars annually, and controls the lives of approximately one million inmates--of which nearly two-thirds are Black and members of other non-white groups. Of particular concern is the over-representation of Black men who traverse the criminal justice system as though it was especially designed for them."

The journey of one man's attempt to merge into the land of adulthood transforms in the hatred of the city he attempts to achieve this transformation. The author vents about the prices and pains of the city and the real world.