Volume 25, Number 14 · September 28, 1978
Lost Generation
By Robert Coles
The Children Are Dying
by Ned O'Gorman
Signet, 215 pp., $1.75 (paper)
For years Ned O'Gorman, a white man, a poet, an essayist, has been working with Harlem's young black children in a storefront nursery and children's library he founded. He has already written two books about the nursery: The Wilderness and the Laurel Tree and The Storefront. This latest book, with its grim, admonitory title, is not meant to describe the further educational observations of an especially dedicated and honorable man. He is at this point in his life desperate, sad, enraged. He believes that isolated efforts such as his mean little in a world he comes close to writing off as a living hell, populated by an American lumpenproletariat:
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