Powerlines: A Decade of Poetry from Chicago's Guild Complex

by Luis J. Rodriguez (Editor), Michael Warr (Editor), Julie Parson-Nesbitt (Editor)

Overview

Every week at the Guild Complex—Chicago's internationally renowned cross-cultural literary center—poets open themselves up to the audience. Power Lines celebrates the first decade of the Guild Complex, its poets, and its publishing wing, Tia Chucha Press.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781882688227
Publisher:	Northwestern University Press
Publication date:	10/25/1999
Edition description:	1
Pages:	199
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction	9
	My Neighbors	13
	The Sun King (1974)	14
	Three Winter Songs	15
	Better Than The Movies	18
	The Writer At Her Work	19
	Traveling Black	20
	In Town	23
	Night Crawl	26
	At The Stove	28
	Poem For Wicker Park Yuppies (A True Story)	30
	Sugar Blue, Harmonica Man	32
	Two Dedications	33
	Carnality	36
	Hell Night	37
	For My Child Who Became A Man In His Thirteenth Year	40
	I Could Not Swallow The Lake	41
	Millennium, Five Songs	43
	Cloud	45
	Twentieth Century Nod Out (2)	46
	Gabacha Encantada	47
	El Comandante	48
	After A Reading At A Black College	49
	Mysteries	50
	The Jungle	51
	A Cigarette's Iris In The Eye Of A Candle	52
	Harry's House	54
	A Poem For My Wife While She Sleeps	56
	No One Wears Hats Anymore	60
	From "A," the End of the Earth	61
	Magnolia	63
	Manifesto Discovered Under a Trillium	65
	"the blooz man"	67
	The Ladder	72
	It Was A Turtle	73
	Fragments Of The Other	75
	Home Depot	79
	This Is My Heart	81
	Nebula	82
	Nautilus	83
	Worship	84
	2 Gals From Chicago	85
	Workfare	86
	Remnants Performance (Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Poetry) Groningen (Cafe Verla) 10/19/98 3:21 am	88
	Canticus Narcissus	89
	The Tongue Of Drunks	91
	Elvis In The Underworld	94
	Rainha Nzingha Reflects on the Absence of Justice	97
	John lee: detroit special	100
	The Poet's Mother	102
	Fin-de-Siecle Blues	103
	Meditations on an Olmec Head	108
	Blood, water, pen, sword	109
	Learning to swim	110
	The Other Hours	111
	My Father Is An Excellent Dog	112
	Easter Sunday Morning, 1973: Maxwell Street, Chicago	114
	Mistress Of Nothing	115
	If you lose your optimism you're in serious trouble	116
	Just aim and shoot a love poem	117
	Loneliness	119
	Capitalist Poem #55	120
	For Your Mother, Whom I've Never Met	121
	Twin Heartbeats	123
	The Fractal Geometry Of Love	125
	Fasting	127
	The Peach Pit	128
	Mater Dolorosa	129
	Halcyon Days	130
	Red Dress	131
	Miss Saigon Protest Performance Queens	133
	One Day In The North Shore	134
	My Neighbor at 98	135
	Jellyfish	136
	You Are The One Who Names Us All	137
	Family Values	139
	Roses	141
	Sharecropper	143
	Fighting Fire	145
	Crosses	147
	Confession	150
	Weight	151
	In Patagonia	152
	60/Blue Island	154
	My Nature Is Hunger	156
	Marvin Gardens	157
	Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Rahim Pilgrimage	158
	Freedom Baptist	159
	In Praise of Some Women	160
	This Year's Flu	162
	On Being Unable To See The Sense Of Placing Something Beautiful In The Lines Of This Poem	163
	The Deer	165
	Elk Grove Village	166
	Blue Country	167
	Herzog	168
	Mr. Orange	171
	I Have Seen	172
	Gray Day In January In La Jolla: 1997	173
	Twist	175
	Julia de Burgos	176
	Half Moon Gate	178
	Warriors	179
	To Malcolm X on His Second Coming	180
	Any Day in June	183
	About the Guild Complex	184