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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Key to the City
• Author: Anne Winters
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 56
• EAN: 9780226902272
• ISBN: 0226902277
• ID: 04550564
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 85 g
• Dimensions: 219 × 14 × 6 mm

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