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Poet William Greenfield portrays the gritty realties of working class family life in a new collection informed by his work in child welfare. Rarely has the abased adage to "write what you know" produced such profound results as these poems from William Greenfield, for what he knows from personal experience and from years as a family services worker has afforded him insights into a world rarely depicted in verse, a working-class world of railbirds and Newports, of "fifties peeled from a working man's wad," but mostly of poverty, mental illness, and substance abuse, a world of diminishing possibilities and of days getting shorter. Asked by a colleague if he cares about his clients, "I / said I...
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