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GROWING UP POOR: A Literary Anthology
Edited by Robert Coles and Randy Testa, with Michael Coles
The New Press, 279 pages, $23.95
In an incident recalled in the preface of this book, child psychiatrist Robert Coles (“Children of Crisis”) is told by his father that literature holds “reservoirs of wisdom” and that he felt rescued by stories. Collected here are wise poems, stories and essays about poverty and denigration, and the remarkable moments of determination and resolve experienced by some wonderful authors, from Zora Neale Hurston and Raymond Carver to Sherman Alexie, Sandra Cisneros and Richard Ford.
