The Displaced of Capital

Winner of the 2005 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.   The long-awaited follow-up to The Key to the City —a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1986—Anne Winters's The Displaced of Capital emanates a quiet and authoritative passion for social justice, embodying the voice of a subtle, sophisticated conscience. The "displaced" in the book's title refers to the poor, the homeless, and the disenfranchised who populate New York, the city that serves at once as gritty backdrop, cit