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In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction
In Short A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction Author:Judith Kitchen (Editor), Mary Paumier Jones (Editor) An anthology of 90 brief nonfiction pieces with the works arranged so that a common theme connects one piece to the next. — Preface : The disproportionate power of the small / Bernard Cooper -- — Lights / Stuart Dybek -- — All-out effort / Reginald Gibbons -- — Volar / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- — Around the corner / Sharon Bryan -- — Enough jam for a life... more »time / Maxine Kumin --
An unspoken hunger / Terry Tempest Williams --
Three voices / Bhanu Kapil --
Proofs / Richard Rodriguez --
Tino & Papi / Normal Elia Cantú --
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 Rodríguez --
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 --
Childen 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 --