In short A collection of brief creative nonfiction
Book - 1996
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New York :
W.W. Norton
[1996]
- Language
- English
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- Physical Description
- 334 pages
- Bibliography
- Includes index.
- ISBN
- 9780393314922
- 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 Cantu
- 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 coma / 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 Rodriguez
- Ice cream / Susanna Kaysen
- On the street / Vivian Gornick.
- Call guy / Alec Wilkinson
- Locker room talk / Stephen Dunn
- White men can's 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.