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Tables of Contents for Abandon Automobile
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
19
4
Introduction
23
12
Sunstruck
35
2
Sarah Addae
Stereo Links
37
2
Saladin Ahmed
Incinerator
39
2
Ron Allen
The Phraseology of a Mood
41
2
Trumbull Song
43
3
Alise Alousi
For D.M.
46
2
Motoring
48
2
Mitzi Alvin
They Say God Marks
50
2
Olivia V. Ambrogio
You'd Have to See It
52
1
Alvin Aubert
The Numbers
52
1
Chene Park
53
2
Four Decades Ago
55
2
Irvine Barat
Kantos
57
2
Faruq Z. Bey
Morning 85
59
1
Sadiq Bey
Reader Response
60
1
Terry Blackhawk
February Teacher
61
2
We Want Our City Back
63
3
Melba Joyce Boyd
the view of blue
66
2
The Burial of a Building
68
4
Detroit Summers
72
1
Jill Witherspoon Boyer
Detroit City
73
1
Squatter's Rights
74
2
William Boyer
People Don't Die Just So You Can Write a Poem about Them
76
1
Donna Brook
I Have My James Schuyler Too
76
2
Eastside Hypocrite
78
1
James Burdine
Detroit, City of Straits
79
1
Anthony Butts
The Belle Isle Men
80
1
Hearing
81
1
Mary Ann Cameron
Haiku '84
82
1
Smallness: Ann Mikolowski's Aris Koutroulis (1985)
83
1
Norene Cashen
Highland Park
84
2
Leon Chamberlain
Angelus Novus
86
1
Hayan Charara
Jesus Turns Asphalt into Bread
87
2
Street Market Requiem
89
3
Esperanza M. Cintron
Where Gardens Grow
92
3
James Clay
Detroit Love Song
95
5
Andrei Codrescu
Rosedale Street
100
1
Walter Cox
Detroit Is in Renaissance
101
2
Stella Crews
Simple
103
3
Robert Dana
Hard Rock
106
1
Jim Daniels
Detroit Hymns, Christmas Eve
107
1
from Time, Temperature
108
3
St. Peter Claver
111
1
Toi Derricotte
Blackbottom
112
1
HIP 1
113
1
Mark Donovan
HIP 2
114
1
Cargo of Grace
115
1
Gloria Dyc
On Seeing Old Friends in Detroit
115
4
Confession of the Rouge Park Killer
119
1
Henrietta Epstein
Wedding Photograph: Detroit 1935
120
3
Detroit
123
1
Linda Nemec Foster
Cold Hands in the Urban Village
124
1
Larry Gabriel
Band of Gypsies
124
1
Crosstown Traffic
125
1
Egyptian Gallery in August: Detroit 1994
126
1
Joan Gartland
Song in Tender Black
127
2
On Leaving You
129
2
Jose Garza
Remembering Detroit 1973
131
1
Dan Georgakas
October Song
132
1
My Sister Chicken Recalls How She Listened to the Supremes on the Radio as a Young Girl
133
1
Charles A. Gervin
Message from the Meridian
134
3
Michele Gibbs
Someday
137
3
Cadillac Dreams of the Detroit River
140
2
Perri Giovannucci
Poem in Memory of Artworks on the Hudson's Building
142
3
Maurice Greenia, Jr.
Jukebox
145
2
Jim Gustafson
Jitterbug, Jazz and the Graystone
147
4
Aurora Harris
Get Off the Bus
151
1
Bill Harris
Detroit Blues
151
1
Elegy
152
1
Envisioning Greed as Hope
153
2
Kaleema Hasan
Elegies for Paradise Valley
155
6
Robert Hayden
Support Your Local Police: What We Pay Our Police For?
161
3
Errol A. Henderson
As a Corrective
164
2
Barbara Henning
Garcia's Market
166
1
Lolita Hernandez
Quiet Battles
167
2
The Passion of Edsel Ford
169
6
Jerry Herron
The Heidelberg Project
175
1
Ellen Hildreth
Three Journeys
176
3
Edward Hirsch
Birth
179
1
Ann Holdreith
To Mary
180
1
Dan Hughes
Falling
180
1
Ugolino of Detroit
181
1
Born on Slow Knives
182
3
Kim Hunter
Where I Grew Up
185
1
Clark Iverson
Dudley Randall
186
1
Murray Jackson
8 Ball in Side Pocket
187
1
Giant
188
1
Geoffrey Jacques
The Blab of the Pave
189
3
A Rose for Brain
192
1
Stephen Jones
Curriculum Vitae
193
3
Lawrence Joseph
Joe Louis
196
4
Nubia Kai
Calling All Brothers
200
3
Aneb Kgositsile
Detroit
203
3
Faye Kicknosway
Alone in America
206
1
Margo Lagattuta
I Heard the Byrd
207
1
Oliver Lagrone
To Rosa Lee Parks
208
1
Bard of Hastings Street Bar
209
2
Afterglow
211
1
Christine Lahey
Motor City Men
212
2
Elephants
214
1
Michael Lauchlan
Liturgy on Trumbull
215
1
Fallen
216
2
Janet Lawless
The New World
218
1
Philip Levine
Photography 2
219
1
Salt and Oil
220
4
Save the Frescoes That Are Us
224
1
M.L. Liebler
Mass Production
225
1
Straw Boss Dream
226
1
City Nights
227
1
Naomi Long Madgett
Grand Circus Park
228
1
Good News
229
1
The Street Life
230
2
Mike Madias
Breakdown
232
2
Peter Markus
Five/Eight Time
234
2
Marc Maurus
In Praise of the Natural Flowing
236
2
Judith Mccombs
Things Ain't What They Used to Be
238
3
Raymond P. Mckinney
January in Detroit
241
3
Ken Mikolowski
The Trans-Siberian Express
244
3
Derek P. Miller
Down by the Boulevard Dock
247
3
Mary Minock
The Wild Flowers of Detroit
250
3
Solstice
253
2
Christine Monhollen
Roses Are Red
255
2
Wardell Montgomery, Jr.
Black Coals with Diamond Hearts
257
3
Jessica Care Moore
In the Sixties, They Banned Fireworks at Edgewater Park
260
1
Jan Mordenski
Like Colavito
261
2
Facing Away from Detroit
263
1
Edward Morin
Beneath the Grand Heaven
264
2
Ted Nagy
Strait City
266
2
Schaarazetta Natelege
The Father the Son and the Spirit
268
3
David J. Nelson
Motor City Trilogy
271
6
Kristin Palm
from The Blue Table
277
1
Ted Pearson
from Coulomb's Law
278
1
My Light
279
1
Sarah Jeanne Peters
Ode to a '64 Chrysler
280
2
Tom Peters, Jr.
Ghosts of the Central Area: Detroit
282
2
T.R. Peters, Sr.
After Attending a Poetry Reading on February 14
284
1
Lawrence Pike
Lines from a Highland Parker
285
2
An Epitah for Ogun in 16 Movementz
287
2
Aaron Ibin Pori Pitts
Detroit Poem: Part One
289
3
Sonya Marie Pouncy
Old Witherington
292
1
Dudley Randall
George
293
1
Bag Woman
294
1
De-troit Summerscene
295
1
Jon Randall
An Invitation
296
1
Kevin Rashid
Historical
297
2
Zena
299
1
Marilynn Rashid
Shooting at No One
300
1
Aerolingual Poet of Prey
301
2
Eugene B. Redmond
Detroit Circa 1989/90
303
1
Scrapyards: Eastside Detroit
304
2
John R. Reed
I Love You (The Heidelberg Project)
306
2
Leslie Reese
Detroit 1983: I Am Waiting
308
2
Rod Reinhart
Serious Childhood
310
2
Judith Roche
Conditor Huius Urbis: A Triptych for Mr. Woodward (1774-1827)
312
2
Michele Valerie Ronnick
Jazz/Blues/Jazz
314
2
Irene Rosemond
Mothering Birds
316
2
Michael Ashton Rosemond
Gravity
318
1
John Rybicki
Chameleon Posing with a Passport
319
1
Osvaldo R. Sabino
Drew's Mom
320
2
Jacqueline Rae Rawlson Sanchez
Why Am I So Brown?
322
1
Trinidad Sanchez, Jr.
Let Us Stop This Madness
323
3
Passion Fruit
326
1
Steven Schreiner
Untitled
327
3
Denise Sedman
The Jonahs
330
3
Semaj
Random Beyond the Confidence Line on the First Day of School
333
2
Dennis Shea
The Screamers
335
1
John Sinclair
consequences
336
2
15th and Dalzelle Streets
338
2
Ella Singer
Old Apple Trees
340
3
W.D. Snodgrass
A Woman Singing the Blues while Cleaning House in Detroit
343
2
Elizabeth Anne Socolow
Detroit Grand Prix
345
3
Keith Carter Sterling
Renaissance
348
1
Renee Tambeau
1967
349
1
I will never understand the city
350
2
Teresa Tan
Detroit Dancing 1948
352
2
Keith Taylor
Uprising
354
2
Dennis Teichman
Epilogue
356
1
Factories along the River
357
1
Stephen Tudor
Detroit River North to South
358
3
6/To Rehearse
361
1
Chris Tysh
7/As Quoted Before
362
1
Aire
363
1
George Tysh
Babes
364
1
Detroit
365
5
Melanie Van Der Tuin
Mandela Comes to Motown
370
1
Hilda Vest
Chant on US-80
370
2
March of Dimes, April in Detroit
372
1
Anca Vlasopolos
Late Encounter
373
2
Ron Allen's Poem
375
1
Rayfield Waller
Literally, for Elegance You Went
375
3
Trust Jesus
378
1
David Watson
Tibet
379
2
Barrett Watten
from Under Erasure
381
4
Human Nature
385
1
Kim Webb
They Walked a Mile for a Camel, the Man's Cigarette
386
1
Mary Ann Wehler
Tearing Down ``N'' Building at Old Eloise Hospital for a New Golf Course
387
2
Karen Williams
The Grace of God
389
1
Tyrone Williams
Alternative Difference
390
2
Many Marvelously Colored Memories
392
1
Willie Williams
Where Did Her Love Go?
393
2
Notes on the Poems
395
8
Contributors and Credits
403