Grady Chambers was born and raised in Chicago. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, attended the MFA program at Syracuse University, and has received fellowships from the Norman Mailer Center and the New York State Summer Writers Institute. His writing has appeared in Adroit Journal; Diode Poetry Journal; Forklift, Ohio; Nashville Review; Ninth Letter; New Ohio Review; and elsewhere. He lives in Philadelphia.
Contents
Explaining the Resurrection in Simple Words
I
Syracuse, October
The Life
Another Beauty I Remember
Thousand Islands
Sunday Morning
Far Rockaway
Jackknife
A Summer
II
View from Brooklyn
The Window
Pin
Dragons
The Syracuse Poem
Blue Handgun
III
After Psalm 17
A Story about the Moon
Dispatch: Pittsburgh
Picasso in Milwaukee
Dispatch: Canal Zone
Salt Lake
Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, 1966
IV
The Leavings
Calaveras
Bands You Might Have Liked If You Were Still Alive
Stopping the War
Rainout in the Twin Cities
Memorial Day
Acknowledgments
