The City Visible

by Allegrezza, William; Bianchi, Raymond L.

• ISBN13: 9780978644017
• ISBN10: 0978644018
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Cracked Slab Books

Summary

Poetry. This anthology brings together a sampling of some of the best poets working in Chicago and the surrounding region. From all corners of the city, these poets are crafting a voice for Chicago literature in the new century. "When Carl Sandburg asked in his Chicago Poems, close to a hundred years ago, for 'a voice to speak to me in the day end, / A hand to touch me in the dark room / Breaking the long loneliness,' little did he know his city would be so fully and lovingly answered and so honored. Chicago is once again transformed by poetry. Here in these myriad acts of imagination, the poets of THE CITY VISIBLE give to it again, in Shakespeare's terms, 'a local habitation and a name'"--Peter Gizzi.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 7
Foreword	p. 9
Corruption	p. 14
Everything	p. 14
Derrida is Dead 2.009	p. 16
Da s	p. 17
Anaktoria	p. 20
Mariner	p. 20
Best Case Scenario	p. 21
Dear Markov	p. 23
Good Shannon	p. 23
Syntax at Moab	p. 24
Methods of Taphonomy	p. 26
The Message is the Message	p. 27
Diode to Rene Daurnal as a Teenager	p. 27
Lodestone	p. 28
West	p. 31
Pursuant	p. 31
To Epithymitikon	p. 33
Ebulliences	p. 34
In the Cave of Mirrors	p. 39
The Sun is Raining	p. 39
Mobile Steam Plant/Spare Change	p. 40
King of Babylon	p. 42
The Chills	p. 45
from Airport Music	p. 47
63rd and Pulaski	p. 55
Bicentennial Minutes from the Vet	p. 57
Il La	p. 59
Vigils of Fire	p. 66
It Wants to Go to Bed with Us	p. 67
Chicago	p. 69
Levitations	p. 72
The Signal-to-Noise Ratio	p. 75
The Virgins of Chicago	p. 79
Cardio/sky	p. 79
Thoughts of Falling, Pollen, Pare	p. 80
Viewing Rain from a Hospital Bed	p. 83
By Your Mouth	p. 85
One Swallow Doesn't Make a Summer	p. 86
Crush #77	p. 90
Nones/January	p. 90
The Rushing	p. 91
Sight Read of a Couple of Stars	p. 93
When the Morning Come	p. 94
Not Brought Up	p. 95
Hotel	p. 97
The Missing, The Maybe	p. 98
Colt Rapid Fire Revolver	p. 102
Foreign Affairs	p. 106
A Land Without Flowers of Near Distance	p. 107
Baby June	p. 110
Suck Squeeze Bang Blow	p. 112
Little Chapel Christmas, Nihonbashi	p. 113
How delightful everything is!	p. 114
Difference in Triplicate	p. 117
Cello Suite	p. 118
Notes to Self	p. 122
Have You a Daughter?	p. 124
Practical Art Criticism	p. 130
from In Contact	p. 134
Eating Ideas	p. 143
The Lower Depths	p. 144
Written	p. 146
Barn Burner, If	p. 150
Bank Branch	p. 151
Poem for a War Poet, Poem for a War	p. 154
Home and Variations	p. 155
Two Short Films on the translation of the European imagination to America	p. 156
N. Rimes	p. 161
Me Tronome	p. 166
Poets	p. 166
Blunt Edge	p. 167
Intention	p. 169
How Your Canary Tethers	p. 170
Fido	p. 172
Our Revolution	p. 176
Song Without Words	p. 179
Migrant Song	p. 180
Poem	p. 183
Baptism of Firewater, Fire and Water	p. 183
Street Dad	p. 186
Away	p. 190
100% Entitlement	p. 192
Design 3-05	p. 192
Design 6-05	p. 193
"Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli"	p. 195
"La Gioia e Mimetica"	p. 195
American Master	p. 196
from Celebrated Genome	p. 199
Documentary	p. 202
Seeking hades again	p. 204
Quarter	p. 204
A question	p. 205
Replacements	p. 206
Grackle or grace	p. 206
Cultural imagination	p. 209
Water/Helen	p. 209
Earth/now	p. 210
Elephant & Castle [12]	p. 212
I'm Pretty Sure Bison Art	p. 212
Bank Seven	p. 215
Bank Thirty-Three	p. 216
Ritual number	p. 218
Mandan (they send)	p. 222
Tandem	p. 226
If	p. 232
Song	p. 233
Horn and space	p. 236
Scytale	p. 237
The Nineties	p. 241
Foil Blossom	p. 241
Ypso Bysmal	p. 242
Music Without Words	p. 243
A Fable	p. 246
Double as Bed	p. 246
Fires	p. 247
Afterword	p. 249
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