In short : a collection of brief creative nonfiction / edited by Judith Kitchen and Mary Paumier Jones.
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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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[1996]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a In short : |b a collection of brief creative nonfiction / |c edited by Judith Kitchen and Mary Paumier Jones. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b W.W. Norton & Company, |c [1996] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©1996 | |
| 300 | |a 334 pages ; |c 22 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-327) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Preface : |t The disproportionate power of the small / |r Bernard Cooper -- |t Lights / |r Stuart Dybek -- |t All-out effort / |r Reginald Gibbons -- |t Volar / |r Judith Ortiz Cofer -- |t Around the corner / |r Sharon Bryan -- |t Enough jam for a lifetime / |r Maxine Kumin -- |t An unspoken hunger / |r Terry Tempest Williams -- |t Three voices / |r Bhanu Kapil -- |t Proofs / |r Richard Rodriguez -- |t Tino & Papi / |r Normal Elia Cantú -- |t Last shot / |r Tobias Wolff -- |t LZ gator, Vietnam, February 1994 / |r Tim O'Brien -- |t Culloden / |r Judith Kitchen -- |t Afternoon tea / |r Emily Hiestand -- |t The shock of teapots / |r Cynthia Ozick -- |t Harbour / |r Michael Ondaatje -- |t The opposite of saffron / |r Mary Paumier Jones -- |t In praise of the humble comma / |r Pico Iyer -- |t Suspended / |r Joy Harjo -- |t The blues merchant / |r Jerome Washington -- |t The usual story / |r Fred Setterberg -- |t Joe Turner's come and gone : the play / |r August Wilson -- |t Sunday / |r Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- |t Mint snowball / |r Naomi Shihab Nye -- |t Borrowed time / |r Paul West -- |t Loose ends / |r Rita Dove -- |t Nostalgia / |r Richard Shelton -- |t Across the street / |r Bia Lowe -- |t A wind from the north / |r Bill Capossere -- |t Snow / |r John Haines -- |t Decoy / |r Franklin Burroughs -- |t Growing up game / |r Brenda Peterson -- |t Rose vegetables / |r David James Duncan -- |t Interlude / |r William Kittredge -- |t Orange who? / |r Gwendolyn Nelson -- |t Hands / |r Ted Kooser -- |t The signature of God / |r Judson Mitcham -- |t My children explain the big issues / |r Will Baker -- |t The complaint / |r William Matthews -- |t My mother in two photographs, among other things / |r Aleida Rodríguez -- |t Ice cream / |r Susanna Kaysen -- |t On the street / |r Vivian Gornick -- |t Call guy / |r Alec Wilkinson -- |t Locker room talk / |r Stephen Dunn -- |t White men can't drum / |r Sherman Alexie -- |t Cat-like / |r John Holman -- |t MRI / |r Jim DeCamp -- |t On two wheels / |r Lee Gutkind -- |t Running Xian / |r John Calderazzo -- |t A note about Allen Tate / |r Kelly Cherry -- |t Fernando and Marisela / |r Bruce Berger -- |t A voice for the lonely / |r Stephen Corey -- |t Museum piece / |r David Huddle -- |t An end to the still lifes / |r Carol Bly -- |t Three fragments / |r Charles Simic -- |t Inheritance / |r Denise Levertov -- |t Modern times / |r Lawrence Weschler -- |t Nostalgia for everything / |r Andrei Codrescu -- |t On the way home / |r Carol Burelbach -- |t Falling stars / |r Gerry Sharp -- |t Three yards / |r Michael Dorris -- |t The tree beyond imagining / |r Reg Saner -- |t December meditation at Camp Polk Cemetery / |r Kim R. Stafford -- |t Notes toward identifying a body / |r John D'Agata -- |t A match to the heart / |r Gretel Ehrlich -- |t Rain / |r Kathleen Norris -- |t Proud flesh / |r Vicki Lindner -- |t April 15 / |r Teresa Jordan -- |t Walking / |r Linda Hogan -- |t Into the storm / |r Jerry Ellis -- |t Crazy horse / |r Ian Frazier -- |t Nacoochee Indian mound : Helen, Georgia / |r Steven Harvey -- |t The stories tell the land / |r Deborah Tall -- |t Sanctuary / |r Jane Moress Schuster -- |t Buckeye / |r Scott Russell Sanders -- |t August / |r Margaret B. Blackman -- |t Stonehenge and the Louvre were cool / |r Carol Lucci Wisner -- |t Winter / |r Larry Sill -- |t Natural edges / |r John Lane -- |t Good use for bad weather / |r Donald Hall -- |t Greenhouse / |r Jane Brox -- |t Nature's see-saw / |r Edward Hoagland -- |t Outside's not what we think / |r Marvin Bell -- |t Falling / |r Art Homer -- |t Grubby / |r SueEllen Campbell -- |t Childen in the woods / |r Barry Lopez -- |t We are distracted / |r Michael Shay -- |t One human hand / |r Li-Young Lee -- |t Mute dancers : how to watch a hummingbird / |r Diane Ackerman -- |t Farder to reache / |r Albert Goldbarth -- |t The fine art of sighing / |r Bernard Cooper. |
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