THE DISPLACED OF CAPITAL
Anne Winters, . . Univ. of Chicago, $14 (72pp) ISBN 978-0-226-90235-7
Compassionate, careful, and detailed almost to a fault, this admirable second volume from Winters (her first in 18 years) follows the workers, the students, and the architectures of New York City, from Lower Broadway's "army of signs disowning the workplace and longing for night" to "Slip-pilings on the Brooklyn littoral." Much of the collection comprises two long works: the first, "An Immigrant Woman," follows the poet's friendship with Pilar, a pious, hardworking Guatemalan mother who becomes a Manhattan hotel worker and suffers a shocking loss. In "A Sonnet Map of Manhattan" Winters (
Reviewed on: 12/20/2004
Genre: Nonfiction