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A City’s Anatomy

In a call for submissions on the subject of Chicago, Ryan G. Van Cleave, the editor of this wonderful volume, received over 1,500 submissions. Out of what must have been a very daunting stack, he chose the work of ninety-nine poets, some of whom are widely known, and some not. A work of this nature, obviously, depends greatly on the editor and his knowledge of the terrain to be covered, and though he is not a resident, Van Cleave knows his subject. Early in his introduction, he tells us, I see Chicago for its beauty and its mystery, its vibrancy and its depravity, its joy and its strangeness. There are places in this city that are simply unsafe, unclean, and unkind. There are places that are torn down, rebuilt, then torn down again in a constant state of flux.