An ear to the ground
Subtitle: presenting writers from 2 coasts
By: edited by Scott C. Davis.
Contributors: Davis, Scott C., 1948-   , ed.
Publisher: Cune Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Seattle, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
Subjects: Setting (Literature) -- Literary collections; American essays -- 20th century; American essays -- 20th century -- Women authors; Essays -- 20th century; Essays
Other titles: Presenting writers from 2 coasts; Presenting writers from two coasts
Notes: "Essays by emerging writers from the East and West Coasts of North America" on the theme of "local truth"--most never before published in book form.  This collection is designed as a "salon" and intended as a conversation.--"A note to the reader"--p. [3].
Table of contents: title: Battle of the T-shirts / Miriam Frances Abety; title: A different path  / Jocelyn M. Ajami; title: Butterfly love / Lucy Aron; title: Move over / Barbara Nimri Aziz; title: A search for integrity / jonetta rose barras; title: Alleys; title: a reminiscence / James Bash; title: Night train to Pisa / Sean Bentley; title: Visiting Kibbutz Hanita / Sylvia Benzaquen; title: The fabric of our lives / Peggy Bird - - North Dakota / Robert J. Brake; title: Running into Guatemala / Katherine Burger; title: Coaster connoisseur / Lance Carden; title: Searching for common (sense) ground / Kenneth Carroll; title: The Fall / Jose Casarez; title: Ofun twice, again / Adrian Castro; title: The New Jersey devil / Donna Clovis; title: Coming out / Elizabeth Woodruff Cogar; title: Escaping the Third Reich / Doris Colmes; title: Baby blues / Kathy Connor; title: Selections from "The food diary" / M. Cassandra Cossitt; title: Operation flying chicken / Russell DeGroat; title: Why live simply? / Mari Lynch Dehmler; title: The marriage counselors / Grace Druyor; title: On the back of a donkey / Hanna Eady; title: Good-bye Virgil / Linda H. Elegant; title: Looking for Kafka / John Felstiner; title: On writing and risk / Horton Foote; title: Salad days / Catherine Foster; title: Termites and clans / Jamal Gabobe; title: This room and everything in it / Kathryn Flynn Galan; title: We are the problem / Arun Gandhi; title: Reflections on war against war / Jerome Gold; title: Manzanar / Jan Haag; title: I, Pterodactyl / James Hall.; title: Boston Yellow Cabs / Nathalie Handal; title: The quiver of a shrub in California / Vaclav Havel; title: Dreaming of salmon / Kurt Koelting; title: Fathers and sons / Frederic Hunter; title: El Capitan / Cy Keener; title: Boys and guitars / Brad Knickerbocker; title: What to do with a lawn / Krista Koontz; title: Power and transparency / Zoe Landale; title: Compassion and AIDS / Anson Laytner; title: On freedom, headless pigeons / William I. Lengeman III; title: Hard shoes : reflections on childhood in Washington, D.C. / Gary Lilley; title: Tata Olga's hands / Lisa Suhair Majaj; title: Fury / Bruce Duane Martin; title: Bus ridden / Doug Nathan; title: Body surfing / Reba Owen; title: Worry seeds / Joan Piper; title: Race, chocolate, and dogs / Laura L. Post; title: The miracle harvest / Arthur Quinn - - Walking like an Egyptian / Sara Nadia Rashad; title: The manly thing...rivalries of racing / Jerry Reid; title: Clackamas / Scott Richmond; title: The taxi life / Ronnie Ritts; title: The juiceman cometh / Hillary Rollins; title: Mr. Garibaldi's cabin / Vada Russell; title: Switched over to cruise control / Carol Schirmer; title: Saving the Titanic / Steven Schlesser; title: High heels and a yellow pickup truck / Cheryl L. Schuck; title: Lunar love / Jody Seay; title: The greatest / Claire Simons; title: France : feeding the African-American artist / Sande Smith; title: All for love / Shauna Somers; title: A piccolo paese; title: Cynthia J. Starks; title: Improvizations on a paceline / John Stenzel; title: Coming of age / Sharon Streeter; title: Black writer, Black reader / Lisa Teasley; title: One more woman with her bags packed / Holly L. Thomas; title: Still life : Cache Creek, B.C. / Margaret Thompson; title: Elsewhere / Kyoko Uchida; title: Going underground / David L. Ulin; title: Ramumu Hoolihoo, Incorporated / Dan Watkins; title: Spirits of the season : Alaska / Joey Kay Wauters; title: The final days of Emmett Till : Tale of the legacy of a lynching / John Milton Wesley; title: Perfecting one's body parts / Nancy W. Woods.