Forgotten Borough
Excelsior Editions (Verlag)
978-1-4384-3584-8 (ISBN)
The stories, poems, and essays in Forgotten Borough offer twenty-four takes on New York City's biggest underdog: Queens. From the immigrant communities of Forest Hills to the unsung heroes of Maspeth and the bustling crowds of Flushing, Queens is the most diverse county in the United States, but unlike the iconic boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the Bronx, it's neither as well known in other parts of the country nor as well traveled by New Yorkers (at least those who don't need to take the 7 Train to get home). Featuring writers who hail from the borough as well as those who have moved there and come to call it home, Forgotten Borough uncovers the New York stories that most of us don't get to hear, tales that reflect not only upon contemporary life in Queens but also its humble history and its evolution to the multicultural community—the community of communities—it is today. Taken together, they offer a vivid, layered portrait of Queens as a microcosm of America, where race, ethnicity, class, and industrial growth all influence our collective past, as well as our present and future.
Nicole Steinberg is an editor at large at LIT magazine, and her poetry has appeared in publications such as No Tell Motel, BOMB, Gulf Coast, Barrow Street, Barrelhouse, and Coconut. She is the author of the chapbook Birds of Tokyo and founder and curator of Earshot, a Brooklyn-based reading series dedicated to emerging writers. She hails from all over Queens and currently lives in Philadelphia, where she works at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Between the Boulevards
Nicole Steinberg
85‑11 Avon Street
Julia Alvarez
To Bridge: The Spaces Between, Behind, and Around Us
Buzz Poole
Love and Shame
Margo Rabb
Waiting for Big Bird
Marcy Dermansky
Thinking on the N
Susan Y. Chi
Chuckie
Victor LaValle
Ethelerie’s Blank Check
Arthur Nersesian
The Maspeth Holders
Margarita Shalina
Three Poems
Nicole Cooley
The Sunnyside Shuffle
Ron Hogan
Eating East Elmhurst
Molly McCloy
High Q
Roger Sedarat
God Lived in Queens
Jayanti Tamm
How to Disappear Completely
John Weir
Snow Forts
Robert Lasner
Four Poems
Juanita Torrence‑Thompson
A Queens Necropolis: The Burial and Building of New York
Marc Landas
Rockaway Sonnets
Jill Eisenstadt
Accent Reduction
Mark Swartz
Koshchei the Deathless
Irina Reyn
Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
Marissa Walsh
The Children
Jocelyn Lieu
Flight
Rigoberto González
Notes and Permissions
Contributors
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.7.2015 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Excelsior Editions |
| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 0 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 372 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Bildbände |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika | |
| Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► USA | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4384-3584-3 / 1438435843 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4384-3584-8 / 9781438435848 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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