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Summary
A project of the Poverty Initiative of the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, Out of the Depths: Poetry of Poverty--Courage and Resilience is a compelling anthology of over one hundred poems by well-known poets (such as Martin Espada, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gregory Orr, Marilyn Nelson, Wesley McNair, Brendan Galvin, Julia Alverez, Natasha Tretheway, and Kevin Young) as well as emerging poets and those never before published about firsthand experiences of poverty.
While the poets hail from diverse locations, cultures, and ethnicities, their work shares common elements of vivid detail, determination of spirit (either quiet or passionate), and compelling artistry.
FACES
Michael Glaser
"God is resident in all faces."--Abraham Joshua Heschel
God challenges our faith
with the face of poverty,
brings us to the altar
of our own emptiness
and asks us if we have the courage
to look at this
and bear witness.
Susan Deborah King is the author of five poetry collections including Coven , One-Breasted Woman , Bog Orchards , and Dropping into the Flower . Her poems have appeared in numerous publications including Tar Rivers Review , Prairie Schooner , and the Willow Review . She teaches creative writing and leads retreats on spirituality and creativity in Minneapolis and Maine.
Author Notes
Susan Deborah King is the author of five poetry collections including Coven, One-Breasted Woman, Bog Orchards, and Dropping into the Flower. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications including Tar River Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and The Willow Review. She teaches creative wiring and leads retreats on spirituality and creativity in Minneapolis and Maine.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. vii |
| "The Office" | p. xv |
| "The Maidservant" | p. 1 |
| "Southern Summers" | p. 3 |
| "Unbonded" | p. 5 |
| "Spic" | p. 6 |
| "Poor House" | p. 8 |
| "Rich" | p. 9 |
| "Flying in Suburbia" | p. 11 |
| "How It Was, 1935" | p. 12 |
| "Dad" | p. 14 |
| "The New Dawn Hotel (Life in the Shelter System)" | p. 15 |
| "Hard Times" | p. 17 |
| "That Kind of Poor" | p. 18 |
| "Delammated" | p. 20 |
| "Ursus Horribilis" | p. 21 |
| "Song" | p. 22 |
| "Becoming" | p. 23 |
| "The Wishing Well" | p. 24 |
| "Facing the Mountain" | p. 26 |
| "Washing My Face" | p. 29 |
| "Global Inequalities" | p. 30 |
| "Under the Big Top" | p. 32 |
| "No New Music" | p. 33 |
| "Factory Lives" | p. 35 |
| "Bench Seats" | p. 36 |
| "We Digress" | p. 38 |
| "Picnic" | p. 43 |
| "Broke" | p. 45 |
| "She Was the Kind" | p. 46 |
| "My Cockroach Lover" | p. 48 |
| "Poverty at Sixty" | p. 49 |
| "Untitled" | p. 51 |
| "Dante's Inferno, 1961" | p. 52 |
| "Unknown Cosmology" | p. 54 |
| "Mining Coal" | p. 56 |
| "Flint, Michigan, 1955" | p. 57 |
| "A Photo of Miners (U.S.A. 1908)" | p. 59 |
| "Faces" | p. 61 |
| "Outside a Bar in Sioux Lookout" | p. 62 |
| "Time Machine, 1942" | p. 63 |
| "I'm From" | p. 65 |
| "Dream of Rebirth" | p. 66 |
| "Grieving Grandfather" | p. 67 |
| "Food Drive" | p. 70 |
| "Karachi's Centripetal Force" | p. 71 |
| "From Dovetailed Corners" | p. 72 |
| "On Reading The Rocking Horse Winner" | p. 73 |
| "Uncle Dolan Spoke on Timbering in East Tennessee" | p. 75 |
| "After Achieving the American Dream" | p. 76 |
| "My Choice, Not to Ignore the Poor's Voice" | p. 78 |
| "Wetback" | p. 82 |
| "Dragon Flame Tattoo" | p. 83 |
| "A Dozen Reasons to Give Up Haggling for the Price of Weavings" | p. 84 |
| "Looking at a Photograph of My Mother, Age 3" | p. 85 |
| "1/" | p. 87 |
| "Pastor Visits Parishioner" | p. 88 |
| "A Little Bit of Timely Advice" | p. 90 |
| "Deluge" | p. 91 |
| "Tuesday at the Outreach Office" | p. 92 |
| "After My Stepfather's Death" | p. 94 |
| "Mother and Child" | p. 95 |
| "Polenta" | p. 97 |
| "Dedicated to the Countless South Africans Who Gave Their Lives for Freedom and Democracy" | p. 98 |
| "Depression Generation" | p. 99 |
| "They're Coming to Take Us Away" | p. 101 |
| "Washboard Wizard, Highland, Kansas, 1888" | p. 102 |
| "Head Start Kids" | p. 103 |
| "Why Shouldn't She" | p. 104 |
| "Real Estate" | p. 105 |
| "Entitlements" | p. 106 |
| "The Beloved Is Dead" | p. 107 |
| "Posture" | p. 108 |
| "Don't Close Larry's" | p. 109 |
| "The Hyperbolist Speaks" | p. 111 |
| "To Hope" | p. 115 |
| "The Unchosen" | p. 116 |
| "Blood: Whose and How Much" | p. 118 |
| "My Vision Has Rhythm" | p. 119 |
| "Justification of the Horned Lizard" | p. 121 |
| "Free Wheeling through Meffa" | p. 123 |
| "Adventure" | p. 124 |
| "My Name" | p. 125 |
| "Brother Sighting" | p. 126 |
| "The Snow Cave Woman" | p. 127 |
| "'Escape' Artist" | p. 128 |
| "Pink Slip" | p. 129 |
| "Slum Boy on Glue" | p. 131 |
| "First of the Month Kool-Aid" | p. 133 |
| "Bountiful" | p. 135 |
| "Bar" | p. 137 |
| "What a Wake-Up Call" | p. 138 |
| "Ballad" | p. 140 |
| "Trouble, Fly" | p. 143 |
| "Ten Gallons of Tough" | p. 144 |
| "The War is Over" | p. 145 |
| "Scribe" | p. 147 |
| "Self-Employment, 1970" | p. 148 |
| "Street Wise" | p. 149 |
| "Gone" | p. 150 |
| "Lakeview Lounge" | p. 151 |
| "Little Tree" | p. 153 |
| "Witness" | p. 155 |
| "Desert Cenote" | p. 158 |
| "Namesake" | p. 159 |
| "Spokane Reservation School Teacher: Wellpinit, Washington" | p. 160 |
| "Jairus's Daughter" | p. 161 |
| "Hindu Prayer" | p. 161 |
| "Painting Angels" | p. 166 |
| "The Escape Artist" | p. 167 |
| "What Helps" a group poem by the | p. 169 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 171 |
| Permissions and Sources | p. 191 |
| About the Editor | p. 193 |
