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NOMMO A Literary Legacy of Black Chicago (1967-1987)

Location

Chicago
United States
US
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Book, Parks
Date: 
1987
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Collection of prose, poetry, and other from the OBAC collective in Chicago. From the back cover 'A Literary Legacy of Black Chicago contains early and new poetry, fiction, drama, and essays by over 50 past or current OBAC members.'
Language: 
English
Notes: 
Contributors continued: Sandra Royster, Jeanne Towns, Don Ryan, Detmer Timberlake, Pamela Cash-Menzies, Mari Evans, Kalamu ya Salaam, Addison Gayle, Houston A. Baker Jr., Eugenia Collier, Richard A. Long
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Where Images Become Imbued with Time

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book, Smith
Date: 
2007
Abstract: 
The word that had many voices -- Storm King Mountain -- Father -- The alchemist's stone -- If beggar boys were shamans -- A mountain in a suitcase -- Symmetries -- A matter of degrees -- Twenty years of empty spaces -- Unforgiving -- At christmas just before midnight -- In age -- Snowball, Gregory Corso and a village stoop -- Translucence -- Dead people -- Being born of bone -- Fossil -- Full moon above main street -- Ka-Ching! -- STROKE! -- Leaves and spit -- Ramses visits the cradle of democracy -- Masks and carved animals -- Wallpaper memories -- Rivers in the ocean -- An arborist's taxonomy -- The intensity of light -- The hand-off -- Proud ilium -- Nationbuilding -- The gates are set to close -- Little cowboys geniuses -- Fine bone China -- Tthe little things -- Not time -- With no return addresses -- Helios -- What light? -- Nanotechnology man -- V Roadhouse restaurant & girll -- Where colors end -- Asking forgiveness -- Obesrving the constellations in grand central -- Along the back roads from Illinois to Pennsylvania -- After sundown at Rye Beach -- Where the farthest galaxies roar into nothingness -- Best not to know a town too well -- In the beginning.
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English
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ISSN/ISBN: 
9780972433969

Poemlab, spring 2011

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