Homeless Souls, by Jake Anderson
By Arline Bolvin
From the very beginning, Homeless Souls by Jake Anderson grabs the heart and inevitably creates a shift in one’s perception of people who live outdoors and in shelters across the United States. As a Boston College journalism student, Anderson decides to travel the country with his camera, documenting the homeless along the way and inviting them to write about their lives and feelings. Their poetry depicts lives lost in the searing desert of Arizona, tributes to Dylan, train hoppers, veterans and a beating Anderson took “one blood-thirsty night” – a beating much like those the homeless experience when they are beaten-up “night after night after night after night” in the cities across America. Continue reading ‘Book Review: Homeless Souls‘
