The best American essays
By: edited and with an introduction by Jamaica Kincaid ; series editor, Robert Atwan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780395691847; 9780395691830
Subjects: American essays
Table of contents: title: Homage to Marcus Aurelius / Joseph Brodsky; Eros at sea / Joel Agee; Dying: an update / Harold Brodkey; When negative meets positive / Dudley Clendinen; Burl's / Bernard Cooper; Gots is what you got / W. S. Di Piero; Endou / Josephine Foo; The art of self / William H. Gass; In the kitchen / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Strange perfume / Edward Hoagland; Salt / Diana Kappel-Smith; Jicama, without expectation / Maxine Kumin; Saturday night, and sunday morning / James A. Mcpherson; Waiting / Edna O'brien; The break / Cynthia Ozick; Six days: some rememberings / Grace Paley; The necessity of poetry / Charles Simic; Father stories / John Edgar Wideman; Civilian / Tobias Wolff; Counting at dusk (why poetry matters when the century ends) / Elaine Scarry.