The Best American essays, 1995 /
The Best American essays, 1995 /
edited and with an introduction by Jamaica Kincaid ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
- xv, 263 p. ; 21 cm.
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. DiPiero -- 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 exception / 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 Wolfe -- Counting at dusk (why poetry matters when the century ends) / Elaine Scarry.
0395691834
American essays--20th century.
PS688 / .B47 1995
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. DiPiero -- 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 exception / 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 Wolfe -- Counting at dusk (why poetry matters when the century ends) / Elaine Scarry.
0395691834
American essays--20th century.
PS688 / .B47 1995