Title: A George P. Elliott reader : selected poetry and prose /
Authors: Elliott, George P., 1918-1980.
Publisher: Middlebury College Press ; University Press of New England,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Elliott, George P., Poetry.; Elliott, George P., Prose.
Abstract: George P. Elliott, who died in 1980, is remembered both as a "writer's writer"--A master craftsman with an equal command of poetry and prose, fiction and nonfiction--and as a gifted and dedicated teacher, one of the architects of the Syracuse University graduate writing program. The Bread Loaf Series of Contemporary Writers introduces a new generation of readers and students to this versatile man of letters. Collecting short stories, essays, and the long narrative poem.
Contents: Faq' -- Miss Cudahy of Stowes Landing -- The NRACP -- Among the Dangs -- Hymn of the angels -- An hour of last things -- Sandra -- Rilla -- Fever and chills -- The novelist as meddler -- Against pornography -- Never Nothing -- The sky and a goat -- Getting away from the chickens -- Photographs and photographers -- A piece of lettuce -- Snarls of beauty.