The Key to the City

by Anne Winters

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226902277
• ISBN13: 9780226902272
• Release Date: March 1986
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 8.5"