Growing Up Poor A Literary Anthology
Growing Up Poor: A Literary Anthology by Robert Coles, published by New Press in 2001, presents a candid exploration of the experiences associated with growing up in poverty. This 279-page collection features a variety of stories, poems, and essays that highlight the stark realities faced by individuals from different backgrounds, including narratives from a young girl in early 20th-century New York and a Southern family during the Great Depression. Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Coles, the anthology aims to shed light on the complexities of poverty in a society often perceived as affluent.
Readers will find a diverse range of voices within this anthology, as it includes works from both established authors and contemporary writers, many of whom share autobiographical accounts of their struggles with poverty. The selections are organized into four thematic sections, addressing the material conditions of poverty, societal denigration, the experiences of the working poor, and moments of resilience. Growing Up Poor offers an eloquent representation of the challenges faced by those judged by their circumstances rather than their character, making it a significant contribution to literary collections on this subject.
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A searingly candid look at growing up “without,” edited by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Children of Crisis series. 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 coming of age in the slums of New York at the turn of the twentieth century and a southern family’s struggles during the Depression, to contemporary stories of urban and rural poverty by some of our foremost authors. Divided into four thematically organized sections (on the material circumstances of poverty, denigration at the hands of others, the working poor, and moments of resolve and resiliency), the book mixes the work of experienced authors–many of whom write autobiographically about poverty they have experienced first-hand–with the work 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. Contributors include: Sherman Alexie Dorothy Allison Raymond Carver Sandra Cisneros Ralph Ellison Richard Ford Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston Luis Rodriguez Betty Smith Gary Soto Mildred Taylor Sylvia Watanabe William Carlos Williams
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