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An Introduction to the Text | |
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More Than Just the Truth: Creative Nonfiction | |
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Discussion of the Genre | |
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A Quintessential: "The Undertaking" | |
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Reading Selections | |
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"The Ninth Tuesday: We Talk About How Love Goes On" | |
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"Borrrinnng!" | |
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"Tortoises" | |
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"101 Ways to Cook Hamburger" | |
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"A Woman in April" | |
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"Austin to Tucson: Hitting the Road" | |
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from Fierce Attachments | |
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"To Read Fiction" | |
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"Eat or Die" | |
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"Walking" | |
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"Home Debut" | |
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from The Liars' Club | |
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"American Things" | |
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"The Creatures on My Mind" | |
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"Children in the Woods" | |
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"On Being a Cripple" | |
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from The Same River Twice | |
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"Not a Butterfly" | |
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"The Youth in Asia" | |
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"Shooting Dad" | |
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Catalysts | |
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The Autobiographical Object | |
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Pushing a Metaphor to Its Limits | |
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Finding Humor in Heartache | |
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Telling Tales: Short Fiction | |
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Discussion of the Genre | |
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A Quintessential: "A Private Landscape" | |
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Reading Selections | |
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"In the Box Called Pleasure" | |
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"Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play 'The Star-Spangled Banner' at Woodstock" | |
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"A Shower of Gold" | |
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"Bigfoot Stole My Wife"/"I Am Bigfoot" | |
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"The Quilt Maker" | |
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"The Little Knife" | |
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"Beyond Lies the Wub" | |
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"Prediction" | |
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"Who's Irish?" | |
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"Work" | |
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"The Story of Two Dogs" | |
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"Lust" | |
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"Pet Fly" | |
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"Brownies" | |
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"Friends" | |
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"Talking Dog" | |
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"Strays" | |
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"The First Year of My Life" | |
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"How Was It, Really?" | |
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Catalysts | |
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Sitting on a Bench | |
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A Fish out of Water | |
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Mind Traveling: A Solitary Adventure | |
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Making Lines: Poetry | |
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Discussion of the Genre | |
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A Quintessential: "Thinking About the Poet Larry Levis One Afternoon in Late May" | |
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Reading Selections | |
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"Love's That Simple" | |
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"These Green-Going-to-Yellow" | |
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"This Moment" | |
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"I Entered a House" | |
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"Interval with Erato" | |
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"Of Distress Being Humiliated by the Classical Chinese Poets" | |
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"11/10 again" | |
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"Libation" | |
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"For Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965" | |
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"The Fall" | |
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"The Building I Live In Is Tipping Over" | |
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"Each Bird Walking" | |
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"Against the Rest of the Year" | |
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"Tear It Down" | |
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"This Cartography" | |
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"Being Pharaoh" | |
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"The Letter" | |
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"Rooster" | |
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"AIDS" | |
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"The Kingdom" | |
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"Jet" | |
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"Counting in Chinese" | |
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"At eighty I change my view" | |
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"The Veil" | |
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"To an Unknown Poet" | |
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"The Misunderstanding" | |
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"Poem to a Jazz Man" | |
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"Believing in Iron" | |
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"Day of Foreboding" | |
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"The Poem Returning as an Invisible Wren to the World" | |
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"The Man Inside the Chipmunk Suit" | |
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"The Swine Who's Eclipsed Me" | |
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"A Happy Childhood" | |
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"Three Boats" | |
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"Poetry" | |
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"Blood" | |
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"Amends" | |
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"I Have a Horse" | |
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"Transfer" | |
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"About Night" | |
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"Dream Broker" | |
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"Not Very Loud" | |
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"Silences: A Dream of Governments" | |
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"Anniversary of Myself" | |
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"Cold Glow: Icehouses" | |
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"Only the crossing counts" | |
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"Desert Footage: Three Dissolves" | |
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Catalysts | |
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In Search of the Image | |
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The Narrative Poem | |
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The Newspaper Poem | |
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Evolving Worlds and Disoriented Words: Experimental Writing | |
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Discussion of the Genre | |
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A Quintessential: "The Colonel" | |
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Reading Selections | |
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"Survivors" | |
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"That Changes Everything" | |
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"Cinema Verite" | |
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"The Glass Mountain" | |
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"The Meat Epitaph" | |
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"Sister Francetta and the Pig Baby" | |
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"The True Story of Mr. and Mrs. Wong" | |
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"Hard Surface Road" | |
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"This Condition" | |
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"Flying" | |
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"Ape and Coffee" | |
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"The Poet's Husband" | |
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"Babe Ruth Pointing" | |
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"Girl" | |
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"Travelling Music" | |
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"Fear: Four Examples" | |
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"Cows in Trouble" | |
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"The Halo" | |
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"Changing the Channel" | |
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"Primary Sources" | |
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"7 or 8 Things I Know About Her-A Stolen Biography" | |
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"A Word Is Coming Up ..." | |
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"Pumpkins" | |
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"Murder, Mystery" | |
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from Dimestore Alchemy | |
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"The Ship in Yokohama" | |
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"Morning News" | |
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"Distance from Loved Ones" | |
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"Sleep" | |
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"The Poet Grows Older" | |
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"Four About Metaphysics" | |
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Catalysts | |
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This Is Just to Say: The Poem Disguised as a Letter | |
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The Interrupted Radio Broadcast: The Nonfiction Collage | |
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In the Midst: Short-Shorts, Flash Fiction, and Prose Poems | |
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The Mapmaker's Unmade Map: Writing About Writing | |
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Discussion of the Genre | |
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A Quintessential: "Memory and Imagination" | |
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Reading Selections | |
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"A Poem Is a Walk" | |
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"So Long Ago" | |
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"Shame and Forgetting in the Information Age" | |
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"Poetic Form: A Personal Encounter" | |
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"Borges and I" | |
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"The Reach of Imagination" | |
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"Don't Just Sit There: Writing as a Polymorphous Perverse Pleasure" | |
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"Marketing Memory" | |
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"Still Life with Oysters and Lemon" | |
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"Portrait of the Writer as a Fat Man: Some Subjective Ideas or Notions on the Care and Feeding of Prose Poems" | |
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"Goatfoot, Milktongue, Twinbird: The Psychic Origins of Poetic Form" | |
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"Poetry and the Mind of Concentration" | |
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"Writing off the Subject" | |
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"My Grandmother on My Shoulder" | |
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"A Note on Prose, Verse, and the Line" | |
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"Language, Power, and Dream" | |
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"I Am Writing Blindly" | |
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"Tell Me a Story" | |
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"A Way of Writing" | |
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"Writing with the Body" | |
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Catalysts | |
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Gift Memories: A Meditative Essay on the Recollection of Borrowed Images | |
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The First House of Memory: Images in Hiding | |
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I and I: Addressing the Self | |
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Index | |