Essays from the nick of time
Subtitle: reflections and refutations
By: Mark Slouka
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781555975715
Subjects: Essays
Other titles: Nick of time; Reflections and refutations
Description: "... Reawakens us to the moment and place in which we find ourselves, caught between the fading presence of the past and the neon lure of the future"--From publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Reflections. Hitler's couch; title: Arrow and wound; title: Listening for silence; title: Blood on the tracks; title: Historical vertigo; title: Speak, video!; title: Eclogue; title: Refutations. Quitting the paint factory; title: One year later; title: Democracy and deference : on the culture of obedience in America; title: Coda : a quibble; title: Dehumanized : on the selling (out) of American education, and what it costs us.