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Title:

Abandon automobile : Detroit city poetry 2001 / edited by Melba Joyce Boyd and M.L. Liebler.

Publisher:

Wayne State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

422 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

American poetry--Detroit.--Detroit.
Detroit (Mich.)--Poetry.
American poetry.
Michigan--Detroit.
Detroit (Mich.)--Poetry.
Poetry.

Other Authors:

Boyd, Melba Joyce. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79017279
Liebler, M. L. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93010333
Copy 1 Codrescu, Andrei, 1946- former owner. IaU http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50030013

Contents:

W.D. 15th and Dalzelle Streets 338 -- / Saladin Ahmed -- Stereo Links 37 -- / Ron Allen -- Incinerator 39 -- Phraseology of a Mood 41 -- / Alise Alousi -- Trumbull Song 43 -- For D.M. 46 -- / Mitzi Alvin -- Motoring 48 -- / Olivia V. Ambrogio -- They Say God Marks 50 -- / Alvin Aubert -- You'd Have to See It 52 -- Numbers 52 -- Chene Park 53 -- / Irvine Barat -- Four Decades Ago 55 -- / Faruq Z. Bey -- Kantos 57 -- / Sadiq Bey -- Morning 85 59 -- / Terry Blackhawk -- Reader Response 60 -- February Teacher 61 -- / Melba Joyce Boyd -- We Want Our City Back 63 -- View of blue 66 -- Burial of a Building 68 -- / Jill Witherspoon Boyer -- Detroit Summers 72 -- Detroit City 73 -- / William Boyer -- Squatter's Rights 74 -- / Donna Brook -- People Don't Die Just So You Can Write a Poem about Them 76 -- I Have My James Schuyler Too 76 -- / James Burdine -- Eastside Hypocrite 78 -- / Anthony Butts -- Detroit, City of Straits 79 -- Belle Isle Men 80 -- / Mary Ann Cameron -- Hearing 81 -- Haiku '84 82 -- / Norene Cashen -- Smallness: Ann Mikolowski's Aris Koutroulis (1985) 83 -- / Leon Chamberlain -- Highland Park 84 -- / Hayan Charara -- Angelus Novus 86 -- Jesus Turns Asphalt into Bread 87 -- / Esperanza M. Cintron -- Street Market Requiem 89 -- / James Clay -- Where Gardens Grow 92 -- / Andrei Codrescu -- Detroit Love Song 95 -- / Walter Cox -- Rosedale Street 100 -- / Stella Crews -- Detroit Is in Renaissance 101 -- / Robert Dana -- Simple 103 -- / Jim Daniels -- Hard Rock 106 -- Detroit Hymns, Christmas Eve 107 -- from Time, Temperature 108 -- / Toi Derricotte -- St. Peter Claver 111 -- Blackbottom 112 -- / Mark Donovan -- HIP 1 113 -- HIP 2 114 -- / Gloria Dyc -- Cargo of Grace 115 -- On Seeing Old Friends in Detroit 115 -- / Henrietta Epstein -- Confession of the Rouge Park Killer 119 -- Wedding Photograph: Detroit 1935 120 -- / Linda Nemec Foster -- Detroit 123 -- / Larry Gabriel -- Cold Hands in the Urban Village 124 -- Band of Gypsies 124 -- Crosstown Traffic 125 -- / Joan Gartland -- Egyptian Gallery in August: Detroit 1994 126 -- Song in Tender Black 127 -- / Jose Garza -- On Leaving You 129 -- / Dan Georgakas -- Remembering Detroit 1973 131 -- October Song 132 -- / Charles A. Gervin -- My Sister Chicken Recalls How She Listened to the Supremes on the Radio as a Young Girl 133 -- / Michele Gibbs -- Message from the Meridian 134 -- Someday 137 -- / Perri Giovannucci -- Cadillac Dreams of the Detroit River 140 -- / Maurice Greenia, Jr. -- Poem in Memory of Artworks on the Hudson's Building 142 -- / Jim Gustafson -- Jukebox 145 -- / Aurora Harris -- Jitterbug, Jazz and the Graystone 147 -- / Bill Harris -- Get Off the Bus 151 -- Detroit Blues 151 -- Elegy 152 -- / Kaleema Hasan -- Envisioning Greed as Hope 153 -- / Robert Hayden -- Elegies for Paradise Valley 155 -- / Errol A. Henderson -- Support Your Local Police: What We Pay Our Police For? 161 -- / Barbara Henning -- As a Corrective 164 -- / Lolita Hernandez -- Garcia's Market 166 -- Quiet Battles 167 -- / Jerry Herron -- Passion of Edsel Ford 169 -- / Ellen Hildreth -- Heidelberg Project 175 -- / Edward Hirsch -- Three Journeys 176 -- / Ann Holdreith -- Birth 179 -- / Dan Hughes -- To Mary 180 -- Falling 180 -- Ugolino of Detroit 181 -- / Kim Hunter -- Born on Slow Knives 182 -- / Clark Iverson -- Where I Grew Up 185 -- / Murray Jackson -- Dudley Randall 186 -- 8 Ball in Side Pocket 187 -- / Geoffrey Jacques -- Giant 188 -- Blab of the Pave 189 -- / Stephen Jones -- A Rose for Brian 192 -- / Lawrence Joseph -- Curriculum Vitae 193 -- / Nubia Kai -- Joe Louis 196 -- / Aneb Kgositsile -- Calling All Brothers 200 -- / Faye Kicknosway -- Detroit 203 -- / Margo Lagattuta -- Alone in America 206 -- / Oliver Lagrone -- I Heard the Byrd8 207 -- To Rosa Lee Parks 208 -- Bard of Hastings Street Bar 209 -- / Christine Lahey -- Afterglow 211 -- Motor City Men 212 -- / Michael Lauchlan -- Elephants 214 -- Liturgy on Trumbull 215 -- / Janet Lawless -- Fallen 216 -- / Philip Levine -- New World 218 -- Photography 2 219 -- Salt and Oil 220 -- / M.L. Liebler -- Save the Frescoes That Are Us 224 -- Mass Production 225 -- Straw Boss Dream 226 -- / Naomi Long Madgett -- City Nights 227 -- Grand Circus Park 228 -- Good News 229 -- / Mike Madias -- Street Life 230 -- / Peter Markus -- Breakdown 232 -- / Marc Maurus -- Five/Eight Time 234 -- / Judith Mccombs -- In Praise of the Natural Flowing 236 -- / Raymond P. Mckinney -- Thing Ain't What They Used to Be 238 -- / Ken Mikolowski -- January in Detroit 241 -- / Derek P. Miller -- Trans-Siberian Express 244 -- / Mary Minock -- Down by the Boulevard Dock 247 -- Wild Flowers of Detroit 250 -- / Christine Monhollen -- Solstice 253 -- / Wardell Montgomery, Jr. -- Roses Are Red 255 -- / Jessica Care Moore -- Black Coals with Dimond Hearts 257 -- / Jan Mordenski -- In the Sixties, They Banned Fireworks at Edgewater Park 260 -- Like Colavito 261 -- / Edward Morin -- Facing Away from Detroit 263 -- / Ted Nagy -- Beneath the Grand Heaven 264 -- / Schaarazetta Natelege -- Strait City 266 -- / David J. Nelson -- Father the Son and the Spirit 268 -- / Kristin Palm -- Motor City Trilogy 271 -- / Ted Pearson -- from The Blue Table 277 -- from Coulomb's Law 278 -- / Sarah Jeanne Peters -- My Light 279 -- / Tom Peters, Jr. -- Ode to a '64 Chrysler 280 -- / T.R. Peters, Sr. -- Ghosts of the Central Area: Detroit 282 -- / Lawrence Pike -- After Attending a Poetry Reading on February 14 284 -- Lines from a Highland Parker 285 -- / Aaron Ibin Pori Pitts -- An Epitah for Ogun in 16 Movementz 287 -- / Sonya Marie Pouncy -- Detroit Poem: Part One 289 -- / Dudley Randall -- Old Witherington 292 -- George 293 -- Bag Woman 294 -- / Jon Randall -- DE-troit Summerscene 295 -- / Kevin Rashid -- An Invitation 296 -- Historical 297 -- / Marilynn Rashid -- Zena 299 -- Shooting at No One 300 -- / Eugene B. Redmond -- Aerolingual Poet of Prey 301 -- Detroit Circa 1989/90 303 -- / John R. Reed -- Scrapyards: Eastside Detroit 304 -- / Leslie Reese -- I Love You (The Heidelberg Project) 306 -- / Rod Reinhart -- Detroit 1983: I Am Waiting 308 -- / Judith Roche -- Serious Childhood 310 -- / Michele Valerie Ronnick -- Conditor Huius Urbis: A Triptych for Mr. Woodward (1774-1827) 312 -- / Irene Rosemond -- Jazz/Blues/Jazz 314 -- / Michael Ashton Rosemond -- Mothering Birds 316 -- / John Rybicki -- Gravity 318 -- / Osvaldo R. Sabino -- Chameleon Posing with a Passport 319 -- / Jacqueline Rae Rawlson Sanchez -- Drew's Mom 320 -- / Trinidad Sanchez, Jr. -- Why Am I So Brown? 322 -- Let Us Stop This Madness 323 -- / Steven Schreiner -- Passion Fruit 326 -- / Denise Sedman -- Untitled 327 -- / Semaj -- Jonahs 330 -- / Dennis Shea -- Random Beyond the Confidence Line on the First Day of School 333 -- / John Sinclair -- Screamers 335 -- Consequences 336 -- / Ella Singer -- 15th and Dalzelle Streets 338 -- / W.D.
Where Did Her Love Go? Old Apple Trees 393. Willie Williams -- A Woman Singing the Blues while Cleaning House in Detroit 343 -- / Keith Carter Sterling -- Detroit Grand Prix 345 -- / Renee Tambeau -- Renaissance 348 -- 1967 349 -- / Teresa Tan -- I will never understand the city 350 -- / Keith Taylor -- Detroit Dancing 1948 352 -- / Dennis Teichman -- Uprising 354 -- / Stephen Tudor -- Factories along the River 357 -- Detroit River North to South 358 -- / Chris Tysh -- 6/To Rehearse 361 -- 7/As Quoted Before 362 -- / George Tysh -- Aire 363 -- Babes 364 -- / Melanie Van Der Tuin -- Detroit 365 -- / Hilda Vest -- Mandela8 Comes to Motown 370 -- Chant on US-80 370 -- / Anca Vlasopolos -- March of Dimes, April in Detroit 372 -- Late Encounter 373 -- / Rayfield Waller -- Ron Allen's Poem 375 -- Literally, for Elegance You Went 375 -- / David Watson -- Trust Jesus 378 -- / Barrett Watten -- Tibet 379 -- from Under Erasure 381 -- / Kim Webb -- Human Nature 385 -- / Mary Ann Wehler -- They Walked a Mile for a Camel, the Man's Cigarette 386 -- / Karen Williams -- Tearing Down "N" Building at Old Eloise Hospital for a New Golf Course 387 -- / Tyrone Williams -- Grace of God 389 -- Alternative Difference 390 -- / Willie Williams -- Many Marvelously Colored Memories 392 -- Where Did Her Love Go? 393.

ISBN:

9780814328101
0814328105
9780814329733
081432973X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)46678242

LCCN:

2001002028

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)