Growing Up Poor A Literary Anthology
Growing Up Poor: A Literary Anthology by Robert Coles, published by New Press in 2002, presents a collection of stories, poems, and essays that explore the experience of growing up in poverty. This 1st Edition, comprising 279 pages, offers a candid look at the lives of individuals from various backgrounds, highlighting their struggles and resilience in a society marked by disparity.
Readers will find a thematically organized anthology that addresses the material circumstances of poverty, the denigration faced by the impoverished, and the experiences of the working poor. The selections include contributions from both established authors and contemporary writers, many of whom share autobiographical insights into their experiences with poverty. Through these narratives, Growing Up Poor provides a platform for voices often overlooked, emphasizing the human experience behind socioeconomic challenges.
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In a land of seemingly endless plenty, Growing Up Poor offers a startling and beautiful collection of stories, poems, and essays about growing up without. Searing in their candor, understated, and often unexpectedly moving, the selections range from a young girl’s story of growing up in New York’s slums at the turn of the twentieth century, to a southern family’s struggles during the Depression, to contemporary stories of rural and urban poverty by some of our foremost authors.
Thematically organized into four sections–on the material circumstances of poverty, denigration at the hands of others, the working poor, and moments of resolve and resiliency–the book combines the work of experienced authors, many writing autobiographically about their first-hand experience of poverty, with that of students and other contemporary writers.
Edited and with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning child psychiatrist Robert Coles, Growing Up Poor gives eloquent voice to those judged not by who they are, but by what they lack.
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