The Key to the City

"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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Anne Winters is the author of a book of translations, " Salamander: Selected Poems of Robert Marteau." This is her first book of poems.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Anne Winters, Winters Anne
• Verlag: University Presses
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.03.1986
• EAN: 9780226902272
• ISBN: 978-0-226-90227-2
• Seiten: 56
• Abmessung: 14 mm x 22 mm x 1 mm
• Gewicht: 85 g
• Serien: Phoenix Poets (Paperback); Phoenix Poets; Phoenix Poets (Paperback); Phoenix Poets Series PP (CHUP); Phoenix Poets (CHUP)
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets