Forgotten borough : writers come to terms with Queens / edited by Nicole Steinberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steinberg, Nicole, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life--New York (State)--New York--Literary collections.

City and town life.

American literature--New York (State)--New York.

American literature.

Queens (New York, N.Y.)--Literary collections.

Queens (New York, N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : Excelsior Editions, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4384-3585-1

OCLC:

953657399