Acie Cargill: 8 books

Chronicles is a collection of 65 poems by Acie Cargill. They concern events and people he has either observed or thought about. They are written in a journalistic poetry style that he learned and developed with his mentors Mark Strand and Gwendolyn Brooks. There are six poems at the end by Lauren...

Here is a collection of poems by Acie Cargill and a few friends. The poems deal with love in the modern world. It is difficult to find true love and even more difficult to maintain it.Computer mediated love, same sex love, gender neutral love, old loves, new loves, married love, incest, misanthropy,...

This is the fifth in the series of journalistic and introspective books of poems by Acie Cargill. He is a former student of Mark Strand and Gwendolyn Brooks. There is no consistent subject matter to this collection of 56 poems. Some are about relationships, some heinous criminals, some comments on...

This a “rogues gallery” of terrible killings, suicides, and violent events. Most of the biggies are here. At least, the American versions. A lot of horrible things. Richard Speck, John Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Leopold and Loeb, Ed Gein, Albert DeSalvo, the Unabomber. Boston Marathon bombers,...

This area encompasses the southeast side of Chicago and northwest Indiana. It is heavily populated. Maybe a couple million people. A lot of industry. A lot of degraded natural areas. Hard working people with modest homes and lifestyles. Many are religious. They have worked for everything they have...

George Pullman built America’s first industrial town south of Chicago on Lake Calumet. He purchased 4000 acres of natural marshlands and woods and built factories to make sleeping cars for the railroads.He also built a model community for the workers to live in. Brick homes with modern conveniences....

Synopsis A young man meets Che Guevara’s granddaughter, Mariana, at the NATO Summit protests in Chicago. She convinces Philip to join her in her pacifist quest for independence for Puerto Rico. They rent a rudimentary beach house on the south coast of Puerto Rico. Mariana speaks at rallies...

This is a collection of 52 journalistic poems inspired by the rise of terrorism in the world and the war against it. Terror seems to be an effective technique for technologically unsophisticated combatants to have a chance of defeating a superpower like the US, Britain, France, China, and Russia....