The Key to the City (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226902272)

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.

Author: Anne Winters
ISBN-10: 0226902277
ISBN-13: 9780226902272
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 03/15/1986
Pages: 56
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.10lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.41w x 0.22d