The Key to the City - Phoenix Poets
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780226902272 |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Imprint: | The University of Chicago Press |
Pub date: | 01 Mar 1986 |
DEWEY: | 811.54 |
DEWEY edition: | 19 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 48 |
Weight: | 85g |
Height: | 22mm |
Width: | 14mm |
Spine width: | 1mm |