Title: A David Huddle reader : selected prose and poetry /
Authors: Huddle, David, 1942-
Publisher: Middlebury College Press ; University of Vermont ; University Press of New England,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Poetry
Contents: A Bread Loaf Contemporary -- Introduction: Confessions of a Multi-Genre Writer -- From The Writing Habit (1992). Let's Say You Wrote Badly This Morning. The Writing Habit. What You Get for Good Writing -- Uncollected Essay on Writing. The Writer as Emotional Engineer -- Uncollected Essays on Gender. Do You Wanna Dance? Ingrained Reflexes. Just Looking, Thank You. Fire in the House -- Uncollected Early Poems. The Brown Snake Poem. Contra Nauseam. Curmudgeon's Song -- From Paper Boy (1979). Gregory's House. Miss Florence Jackson. Jeep Alley, Emperor of Baseball. Janie Swecker and Me and Gone With the Wind. Mrs. Green. My Brother Flies Over Low -- From Stopping by Home (1988). Theory. Bac Ha. Words. Them. Cousin. Vermont. Music. The Field. The School. Croquet. Icicle. Sunday Dinner. Stopping by Home -- From The Nature of Yearning (1992). Local Metaphysics. Inside the Hummingbird Aviary. The Snow Monkey Argues With God. Love and Art. Upstairs Hallway, 5 A.M. Thinking About My Father -- New Poems. Poem at Fifty, Mostly in Long Lines. This Poem Is the End of a Long Story. Mother Encounters Monkey at the Post Office -- From Only the Little Bone (1986). Summer of the Magic Show. The Undesirable. Only the Little Bone -- From The High Spirits (1989). Playing. The Beautiful Gestures -- From Intimates (1992). Little Sawtooth.