Forgotten Borough

by Steinberg, Nicole

• ISBN13: 9781438435831
• ISBN10: 1438435835
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-02-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Twenty-four contemporary writers reflect on life in New York City's biggest underdog, the "forgotten borough" of Queens.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Between the Boulevards	p. 1
85-11 Avon Street	p. 7
To Bridge: The Spaces Between, Behind, and Around Us	p. 13
Love and Shame	p. 21
Waiting for Big Bird	p. 25
Thinking on the N	p. 31
Chuckie	p. 39
Ethelerie's Blank Check	p. 43
The Maspeth Holders	p. 57
Three Poems	p. 71
The Sunnyside Shuffle	p. 75
Eating East Elmhurst	p. 81
High Q	p. 91
God Lived in Queens	p. 99
How to Disappear Completely	p. 105
Snow Forts	p. 117
Four Poems	p. 127
A Queens Necropolis: The Burial and Building of New York	p. 133
Rockaway Sonnets	p. 147
Accent Reduction	p. 151
Koshchei the Deathless	p. 157
Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)	p. 173
The Children	p. 175
Flight	p. 183
Notes and Permissions	p. 199
Contributors	p. 201
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