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Title:

Growing up poor : a literary anthology / edited by Robert Coles and Randy Testa, with Michael Coles.

Publisher:

Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co.,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xxiv, 279 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

American literature--20th century.
Poor children--Literary collections.
Children of minorities--Literary collections.
Ethnic groups--Literary collections.

Other Authors:

Coles, Robert.
Testa, Randy-Michael.
Coles, Michael H.

Contents:

To come into a world like this one. Mother to son / Langston Hughes -- From White mule / William Carlos Williams -- From A tree grows in Brooklyn / Betty Smith -- From The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros -- Big boy / Jesse Hill Ford -- From Invisible man / Ralph Ellison -- No way out / Max Moran. They, those people over there. A question of class / Dorothy Allison -- Who will speak for Lizzy? / Danielle Joseph -- From City kids, city teachers / Deborah Stern, editor -- From The beat within / Love Shiloh, Young Tay B2, and Anonymous -- Indian education / Sherman Alexie -- Mother and daughter / Gary Soto --
From Children of crisis : a study of courage and fear / Robert Coles -- Optimists / Richard Ford. I took my place, bent my head and went to work. The grammar of silk / Cathy Song -- Cannery town in August / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Field poem / Gary Soto -- Night shift at St. Regis / Luis J. Rodriguez -- Photograph of my father in his twenty-second year / Raymond Carver. Take a stand on high ground. From Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston -- Doing what it takes to survive / Dean Torres -- From Roll of thunder, hear my cry / Mildred Taylor -- The ghost of Fred Astaire / Sylvia Watanabe -- Full circle / Lori Arviso Alvord -- From Children of crisis : migrants, sharecroppers, mountaineers / Robert Coles -- Show and tell / Andrew Lam.

ISBN:

9781565846234
1565846230

OCLC:

(OCoLC)44509228

LCCN:

00055927

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)