
Everything Must Go
The Life and Death of an American Neighborhood
- 112 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
A unique artistic tribute to a Chicago neighborhood lost to gentrification: "Kevin Coval made me understand what it is to be a poet" (Chance the Rapper, Grammy winner and activist). Everything Must Go is an illustrated collection of poems in the spirit of a graphic novel, a collaboration between poet Kevin Coval and illustrator Langston Allston. The book celebrates Chicago's Wicker Park in the late 1990s, Coval's home as a young artist, the ancestral neighborhood of his forebears, and a vibrant enclave populated by colorful characters. Allston's illustrations honor the neighborhood as it once was, before gentrification remade it. The book excavates and mourns that which has been lost in transition and serves as a template for understanding the process of displacement and reinvention currently reshaping American cities. "Chicago's unofficial poet laureate." —NPR
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Table of contents
- COVER
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- A BRIEF HISTORY
- 1750 W. HADDON
- WELCOME TO WICKER PARK
- PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST IN THE HOOD
- WHITE ON THE BLOCK
- JAYSON
- D IS OUR OTHER ROOMMATE
- MR. ROOSTER
- THE LANDLORD
- BOY BECOMES MAN
- CAFE MATOU
- THE JOBS
- SAVIORS OF EL BARRIO
- URBIS ORBIS
- RUDY
- EARWAX
- 1108 N. HERMITAGE
- RAVE
- THE BOP SHOP
- LIT-X
- DENIZEN
- ANNA
- WE WERE JUST A PHASE
- THE TIME I WAS HOMELESS & THE CAR WAS ALSO A BANK
- ODE TO THE WAITRESS
- ODE TO 22s IN A BROWN PAPER BAG
- THE 6-WAY ON THE SABBATH
- ALL THE MEN ON THE AVE
- OBA
- THE GALLERIST
- THIGAHMAHJIGGEE
- DAVID
- THE OIL & INCENSE MAN
- 1037 N. DAMEN
- HOW I MET IDRIS (THE REMIX)
- JACK + JUICY
- A GIRL FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD
- ODE TO THE DIVE BAR
- THE TAMALE GUY
- DRIVE BY IN HUMBOLDT PARK
- SONG FOR THE OLD BOWLING ALLEY
- ODE TO THE OLD BARBERS
- ODE TO THE WOMEN WHO CLEAN MY UNMENTIONABLES
- NEW CONSTRUCTION
- FIRST FRIDAYS
- THE REAL WORLD
- THE PRE-FIXE IS IN
- PIONEERS
- GIVE US A POEM
- I GO TO THE GIRL FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD
- EVERYTHING MUST GO
- BACK COVER