| Description |
399 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Moving water, Tucson / Peggy Shumaker -- Brief history of my thumb / Lucia Perillo -- Night song / Stephen Kuusisto -- Signs and wonders / Rebecca McClanahan -- from "Mexico's children" / Richard Rodriguez -- Tenino / Mary Clearman Blew -- In Wyoming / Mark Spragg -- Those who stay and those who go / Ann Daum -- The Khan men of Agra / Pamela Michael -- Water's edge / Salman Rushdie -- Someone I love / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Words of my youth / Joe Mackall -- Six postcards / Lawrence Sutin -- September / Lia Purpura -- Winter wheat / Anne McDuffie -- confessions / Amy Tan -- Planet unflinching / Kelly Cherry -- from Two or three things I know for sure / Dorothy Allison -- Work / Kim Barnes -- Muskgrass Chara / Kathleen Dean Moore -- Undercurrent / Katrina Roberts -- A second time / James Galvin -- January / Verlyn Klinkenborg -- Winter / Larry Woiwode -- In Nebraska / Ted Kooser -- The night trucks / Kent Meyers -- Opposite of south / Sven Birkerts -- What Sacagawea means to me / Sherman Alexie -- Two / Stephen Dunn -- The trains / Paul Zimmer -- Men at night / David Huddle -- Random / Scott Ely -- Standard time / Judith Kitchen -- The war at home / Janet Wondra -- Book war / Wang Ping -- Bookless in Biak / Lawrence Millman -- Disclaimer / Ron Carlson -- Contributor's note / Michael Martone -- Me talk pretty one day / David Sedaris -- Semi-colon / Barbara Mallonee -- Experiencing / Stephen Corey -- Moon snail / Barbara Hurd -- Breakfast with Canis latrans / Reg Saner -- An animal looks at me / Charles Bergman -- The human road / Susanne Antonetta -- Capital realism / Ann Pancake -- Jet lag / Pico Iyer -- Daylight savings time / M.J. Iuppa -- Getting yourself home / Brenda Miller -- Afternoon with canals / Paul Lisicky -- Siena, burnt and raw / Mary Paumier Jones -- from The growing seasons / Samuel Hynes -- Behind the screen / Jo Ann Beard -- Hose / Emily Hiestand -- Take me out to the ballgame / Joseph Epstein -- The old country / Peter Balakian -- Human cruelty / Hayden Carruth -- The unknown soldier / Luc Sante -- Confession / Stuart Dybek -- Kind of blue / Sebastian Matthews -- Son of Mr. Green Jeans / Dinty W. Moore -- the spinners / Michael Datcher -- The ghetto girls' guide to dating and romance / Sonja Livingston -- The mother / Anne Panning -- Clean slate / Joanna McNaney -- Ritual meals / Valerie Miner -- Getting rid of the gun / Joyce Thompson -- Bullet in my neck / Gerald Stern -- The big nap / Michael Perry -- The Museum of Obsolete Colors / Bill Capossere -- Four / Marvin Bell -- Margot's diary / S.L. Wisenberg -- Salt hay / Jane Brox -- Revision / Terry Tempest Williams -- They're in the river / John McPhee -- Essay, dresses, and fish / Sandra Swinburne -- Some cloths / Albert Goldbarth |
| Summary |
"Short Takes presents seventy-six writers whose range and style demonstrate the myriad ways we humans have of telling our truths. Themes develop and collide with one another: musings about baseball and books, family and history, war and work, science and the seasons. Each short - whether a few paragraphs or reaching 2,000 words, and reflecting almost every way nonfiction can be written - invites us to experience the power of the small to move, persuade, and change us."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-381) |
| Subject |
American essays -- 20th century.
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Reportage literature, American.
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| Author |
Kitchen, Judith.
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| LC no. |
2005008220 |
| ISBN |
0393326004 paperback |
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9780393326000 paperback |
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