September 1997
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II. As a weapon in the hands of the restless poor
By Earl Shorris
Earl Shorris is a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine. He is the author of ten books, including New American Blues: A Journey Through Poverty to Democracy, which will bepublished by W. W. Norton in October.
Next month I will publish a book about poverty in America, but not the book I intended. The world took me by surprise—not once, but again and again. The poor themselves led me in directions I could not have imagined, especially the one that came out of a conversation in a maximum-security prison for women that is set, incongruously, in a lush Westchester suburb fifty miles north of New York City.
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