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Creative nonfiction, also known as narrative nonfiction, liberated journalism by inviting writers to dramatize, interpret, speculate, and even re-create their subjects. Lee Gutkind collects twenty-five essays that flourished on this new ground, all originally published in the journal he founded, Creative nonfiction, now celebrating its tenth anniversary. Lauren Slater is a therapist in the institution where she was once a patient. John Edgar Wideman...
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Watkins (an author, he was an editor at the New York Times Book Review) has compiled an anthology of Black humor that, perhaps inadvertently, reveals much about changes in American as well as Black society. The lengthy excerpts are printed with little prefatory material, though a historical introduction is provided for each chapter. An appendix contains a list of authors with short biographies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland,...
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"In many ways," writes Adrienne Rich in her Introduction, "Muriel Rukeyser was beyond her time - and seems, at the edge of the twenty-first century, to have grasped resources we are only now beginning to reach for: the connections between history and the body, memory and politics, sexuality and public space, poetry and physical science, and much else. She spoke as a poet, first and foremost; but she spoke also as a thinking activist, biographer, traveler,...
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The acclaimed Claire Bloom portrays Emily Dickinson in this dramatic presentation of her "letters to the world." Poems include ... "This is my letter to the World" "I'll tell you how the Sun rose" "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" "Surgeons must be very careful" "Dear March - Come in" "A Bird came down the Walk" "A narrow Fellow in the Grass" "Further in Summer than the Birds" "There's a certain Slant of light" "The Sky is low - the Clouds are mean"...
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