Dr. Reginald Gibbons Slow
Trains Overhead with Fei Sun, and Katherine Williams
American Writer’s Museum, 800 N. Michigan Avenue, Second
Floor at 5:30pm
“Very Short Story” reading and signing with Dr. Reginald
Gibbons, Fei Sun, and Katherine Williams.
Few people writing today could successfully combine an
intimate knowledge of Chicago with a poet’s eye, and capture what it’s really
like to live in this remarkable city. Embracing a striking variety of human
experience—a chance encounter with a veteran on Belmont Avenue, the grimy
majesty of the downtown El tracks, domestic violence in a North Side
brownstone, the wide-eyed wonder of new arrivals at O’Hare, and much more—these
new and selected poems and stories by Reginald Gibbons celebrate the heady mix
of elation and despair that is city life. With Slow Trains Overhead, he has
rendered a living portrait of Chicago as luminously detailed and powerful as
those of Nelson Algren and Carl Sandburg.
Gibbons takes the reader from museums and neighborhood
life to tense proceedings in Juvenile Court, from comically noir-tinged scenes
at a store on Clark Street to midnight immigrants at a gas station on Western
Avenue, and from a child's piggybank to nature in urban spaces. For Gibbons,
the city’s people, places, and historical reverberations are a compelling human
array of the everyday and the extraordinary, of poverty and beauty, of the
experience of being one among many. Penned by one of its most prominent
writers, Slow Trains Overhead evokes and commemorates human life in a
great city.
Reader’s Hall. General
public.
We will be on hand to sell books before and after the
event.
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