| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Distance # (feat. Joni Tevis) -- Expectations # (feat. Desirae Matherly) -- Happiness # (feat. Amy Leach) -- Inertia # -- Insomnia # (feat. Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas) -- Laughter # (feat. Jericho Parms) -- Listening # (feat. Mary Cappello) -- Memory # -- Nostalgia # (feat. Lawrence Sutin) -- Order # -- Plums # (feat. Matthew Gavin Frank) -- Poetry # -- Solstice # -- Thumbs # (feat. Elena Passarello & Wendy S. Walters) -- Timing # -- Lyric Essays -- Every time I hear lyric essay, I think of Rogers and Hart. The Great American Essay Book. My funny Emerson. Sweet comic Emerson. You make me smile with your pompous transcendental insights -- David Lazar "Hydra: I'll Be Your Mirror" -- Alfonsina y el Mar # -- Against the Wind # -- Beat on the Brat # -- FM -- Freewill # (feat. Joe Oestreich) -- Memorizing the Lyrics # -- Old Time Rock n Roll # (feat. Michael Martone) -- Guerrilla Essays -- As those who by artificial light put out that of the day, so we, by borrowed forms, have destroyed our own -- Montaigne "Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes" -- The Arrogance of Style # -- /disparate/ # -- In Step with ... Montaigne # (feat. David Lazar) -- Mea Culpa # -- Pangram Haiku # -- The Proverbial # -- Repast # -- Smells # (feat. Stephen Haynie) -- Unpredictable Essays # -- Writer Michael Martone's Leftover Water -- Imbibe literary genius (dozens of authors in one swig) # |
| Summary |
"Disparates is a book of Patrick Madden's humorous, light, and frivolous essays featuring aborted essays, in honor of the long tradition of essayists disparaging their own efforts, and guerrilla essays, which ingeniously borrow other forms to upend the traditional"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American essays.
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American essays
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781496221889 |
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1496221885 |
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