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A unique artistic tribute to a Chicago neighborhood lost to gentrification: âKevin Coval made me understand what it is to be a poetâ (Chance the Rapper, Grammy winner and activist). Â 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 Chicagoâs Wicker Park in the late 1990s, Covalâs home as a young artist, the ancestral neighborhood of his forebears, and a vibrant enclave populated by colorful characters. Â Allstonâs 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. Â âChicagoâs unofficial poet laureate.â âNPR |
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