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The displaced of capital

Winters, Anne. (Author).

Summary: Winner of the 2005 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. The long-awaited follow-up to The Key to the Citya finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1986Anne 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 emotionall.

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  • ISBN: 0226902390
  • ISBN: 9780226902395
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (61 pages)
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  • Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2004.

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Formatted Contents Note: The mill-race -- The grass grower -- The displaced of capital -- An immigrant woman -- Cold-water flats -- The depot -- Villanelle -- A sonnet map of Manhattan -- Wall and pine : the rain -- Houston Street : a wino -- East Fifth Street : a poster for the Oresteia -- Greenwich Street : sad father with a hat -- MacDougal Street : old-law tenements -- East Eleventh Street : three images -- Eighteenth Street : the brown owl of Ulm -- First Avenue : drive-in teller -- Sixty-seventh Street : Tosca with man in bedrock -- 100 Riverside : waking up at Mari's -- One Forty-sixth Street : my stepmother's chloral -- One Sixty-fifth Street : the currency exchange -- One Sixty-eighth Street : the armory -- One Seventy-fifth Street : the scout -- The first verse.
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Subject: New York (N.Y.) -- Poetry
Social problems -- Poetry
Homelessness -- Poetry
Poverty -- Poetry
Genre: Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Poetry.

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