The displaced of capital / Anne Winters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winters, Anne.

Series:

Phoenix poets.

Phoenix poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social problems--Poetry.

Social problems.

Homelessness--Poetry.

Homelessness.

Poverty--Poetry.

Poverty.

New York (N.Y.)--Poetry.

New York (N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (74 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the 2005 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. The long-awaited follow-up to The Key to the City-a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1986-Anne Winters's The Displaced of Capital emanates a quiet and authoritative passion for social justice, embodying the voice of a subtle, sophisticated conscience. The "displaced" in the book's title refers to the poor, the homeless, and the disenfranchised who populate New York, the city that serves at once as gritty backdrop, city of dreams, and urban nightmare. Winters also addresses the culturally, ethnically, and emotionally excluded and, in these politically sensitive poems, writes without sentimentality of a cityscape of tenements and immigrants, offering her poetry as a testament to the lives of have-nots. In the central poem, Winters witnesses the relationship between two women of disparate social classes whose friendship represents the poet's political convictions. With poems both powerful and musical, The Displaced of Capital marks Anne Winters's triumphant return and assures her standing as an essential New York poet.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I. THE MILL-RACE

II . THE FIRST VERSE

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786612585104

9781282585102

128258510X

9780226902395

0226902390

OCLC:

635292399