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In short : a collection of brief creative nonfiction / edited by Judith Kitchen and Mary Paumier Jones.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, c1996.Description: 334 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0393039609
  • 9780393039603
  • 0393314928 (pbk.)
  • 9780393314922 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 814/.508
LOC classification:
  • PS 688 I59 1996
Contents:
Lights / Stuart Dybek -- All-out effort / Reginald Gibbons -- Volar / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Around the corner / Sharon Bryan -- Enough jam for a lifetime / Maxine Kumin -- An unspoken hunger / Terry Tempest Williams -- Three voices / Bhanu Kapil -- Proofs / Richard Rodriguez -- Tino & Papi / Norma Elia Cantâu -- Last shot / Tobias Wolff -- LZ Gator, Vietnam, February 1994 / Tim O'Brien -- Culloden / Judith Kitchen -- Afternoon tea / Emily Hiestand -- The shock of teapots / Cynthia Ozick -- Harbour / Michael Ondaatje -- The opposite of saffron / Mary Paumier Jones -- In praise of the humble comma / Pico Iyer -- Suspended / Joy Harjo -- The blues merchant / Jerome Washington -- The usual story / Fred Setterberg -- Joe Turner's Come and gone : the play / August Wilson -- Sunday / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Mint snowball / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Borrowed time / Paul West -- Loose ends / Rita Dove -- Nostalgia / Richard Shelton -- Across the street / Bia Lowe -- A wind from the north / Bill Capossere -- Snow / John Haines -- Decoy / Franklin Burroughs -- Growing up game / Brenda Peterson -- Rose vegetables / David James Duncan -- Interlude / William Kittredge -- Orange who? / Gwendolyn Nelson -- Hands / Ted Kooser --
The signature of God / Judson Mitcham -- My children explain the big issues / Will Baker -- The complaint / William Matthews -- My mother in two photographs, among other things / Aleida Rodrâiguez -- Ice cream / Susanna Kaysen -- On the street / Vivian Gornick -- Call guy / Alec Wilkinson -- Locker room talk / Stephen Dunn -- White men can't drum / Sherman Alexie -- Cat-like / John Holman -- MRI / Jim DeCamp -- On two wheels / Lee Gutkind -- Running Xian / John Calderazzo -- A note about Allen Tate / Kelly Cherry -- Fernando and Marisela / Bruce Berger -- A voice for the lonely / Stephen Corey --Museum piece / David Huddle -- An end to the still lifes / Carol Bly -- Three fragments / Charles Simic -- Inheritance / Denise Levertov -- Modern times / Lawrence Weschler -- Nostalgia for everything / Andrei Codrescu -- On the way home / Carol Burelbach -- Falling stars / Gerry Sharp -- Three yards / Michael Dorris -- The tree beyond imagining / Reg Saner -- December meditation at Camp Polk Cemetery / Kim R. Stafford -- Notes toward identifying a body / John D'Agata -- A match to the heart / Gretel Ehrlich -- Rain / Kathleen Norris -- Proud flesh / Vicki Lindner -- April 15 / Teresa Jordan -- Walking / Linda Hogan -- Into the storm / Jerry Ellis -- Crazy Horse / Ian Frazier -- Nacoochee Indian Mound : Helen, Georgia / Steven Harvey -- The stories tell the land / Deborah Tall -- Sanctuary / Jane Moress Schuster -- Buckeye / Scott Russell Sanders -- August / Margaret B. Blackman -- Stonehenge and the Louvre were cool / Carol Lucci Wisner -- Winter / Larry Sill --
Natural edges / John Lane -- Good use for bad weather / Donald Hall -- Greenhouse / Jane Brox -- Nature's see-saw / Edward Hoagland -- Outside's not what we think / Marvin Bell -- Falling / Art Homer -- Grubby / SueEllen Campbell -- Children in the woods / Barry Lopez -- We are distracted / Michael Shay -- One human hand / Li-Young Lee -- Mute dancers : how to watch a hummingbird / Diane Ackerman -- Farder to Reache / Albert Goldbarth -- The fine art of sighing / Bernard Cooper.
Summary: An anthology of 90 brief nonfiction pieces with the works arranged so that a common theme connects one piece to the next.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PS 688 I59 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000088772

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-327) and index.

Lights / Stuart Dybek -- All-out effort / Reginald Gibbons -- Volar / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Around the corner / Sharon Bryan -- Enough jam for a lifetime / Maxine Kumin -- An unspoken hunger / Terry Tempest Williams -- Three voices / Bhanu Kapil -- Proofs / Richard Rodriguez -- Tino & Papi / Norma Elia Cantâu -- Last shot / Tobias Wolff -- LZ Gator, Vietnam, February 1994 / Tim O'Brien -- Culloden / Judith Kitchen -- Afternoon tea / Emily Hiestand -- The shock of teapots / Cynthia Ozick -- Harbour / Michael Ondaatje -- The opposite of saffron / Mary Paumier Jones -- In praise of the humble comma / Pico Iyer -- Suspended / Joy Harjo -- The blues merchant / Jerome Washington -- The usual story / Fred Setterberg -- Joe Turner's Come and gone : the play / August Wilson -- Sunday / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Mint snowball / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Borrowed time / Paul West -- Loose ends / Rita Dove -- Nostalgia / Richard Shelton -- Across the street / Bia Lowe -- A wind from the north / Bill Capossere -- Snow / John Haines -- Decoy / Franklin Burroughs -- Growing up game / Brenda Peterson -- Rose vegetables / David James Duncan -- Interlude / William Kittredge -- Orange who? / Gwendolyn Nelson -- Hands / Ted Kooser --

The signature of God / Judson Mitcham -- My children explain the big issues / Will Baker -- The complaint / William Matthews -- My mother in two photographs, among other things / Aleida Rodrâiguez -- Ice cream / Susanna Kaysen -- On the street / Vivian Gornick -- Call guy / Alec Wilkinson -- Locker room talk / Stephen Dunn -- White men can't drum / Sherman Alexie -- Cat-like / John Holman -- MRI / Jim DeCamp -- On two wheels / Lee Gutkind -- Running Xian / John Calderazzo -- A note about Allen Tate / Kelly Cherry -- Fernando and Marisela / Bruce Berger -- A voice for the lonely / Stephen Corey --Museum piece / David Huddle -- An end to the still lifes / Carol Bly -- Three fragments / Charles Simic -- Inheritance / Denise Levertov -- Modern times / Lawrence Weschler -- Nostalgia for everything / Andrei Codrescu -- On the way home / Carol Burelbach -- Falling stars / Gerry Sharp -- Three yards / Michael Dorris -- The tree beyond imagining / Reg Saner -- December meditation at Camp Polk Cemetery / Kim R. Stafford -- Notes toward identifying a body / John D'Agata -- A match to the heart / Gretel Ehrlich -- Rain / Kathleen Norris -- Proud flesh / Vicki Lindner -- April 15 / Teresa Jordan -- Walking / Linda Hogan -- Into the storm / Jerry Ellis -- Crazy Horse / Ian Frazier -- Nacoochee Indian Mound : Helen, Georgia / Steven Harvey -- The stories tell the land / Deborah Tall -- Sanctuary / Jane Moress Schuster -- Buckeye / Scott Russell Sanders -- August / Margaret B. Blackman -- Stonehenge and the Louvre were cool / Carol Lucci Wisner -- Winter / Larry Sill --

Natural edges / John Lane -- Good use for bad weather / Donald Hall -- Greenhouse / Jane Brox -- Nature's see-saw / Edward Hoagland -- Outside's not what we think / Marvin Bell -- Falling / Art Homer -- Grubby / SueEllen Campbell -- Children in the woods / Barry Lopez -- We are distracted / Michael Shay -- One human hand / Li-Young Lee -- Mute dancers : how to watch a hummingbird / Diane Ackerman -- Farder to Reache / Albert Goldbarth -- The fine art of sighing / Bernard Cooper.

An anthology of 90 brief nonfiction pieces with the works arranged so that a common theme connects one piece to the next.

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