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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 | |