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The Key to the City

The Key to the City

Winters, Anne

Paperback

Series: Phoenix Poets

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0226902277
ISBN13: 9780226902272
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Mar 15 1986
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.41 Depth: 8.49
Language: English
The Key to the City brings together work that has long been admired by readers of literary magazines and quarterlies. The collection opens with The Ruins, a group of poems set in poor neighborhoods in New York City--some so cut off from midtown that they seem part of another continent or another age. The people in these poems are schoolgirls, a cleaning lady in the laundromat, derelicts, a prostitute stabbed in the street. Their interwoven voices contribute to a complex, grave vision of remote causes and immediate suffering in the city. The poems of the second section explore a broad range of experience: pregnancy and nursing, inward solitude, the textures of Renaissance painting and American landscapes.

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