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_b.B47 1995
245 0 4 _aThe Best American essays, 1995 /
_cedited and with an introduction by Jamaica Kincaid ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
260 _aBoston :
_bHoughton Mifflin,
_c1995.
300 _axv, 263 p. ;
_c21 cm.
505 0 _aHomage 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.
650 0 _aAmerican essays
_y20th century.
700 1 _aKincaid, Jamaica.
700 1 _aAtwan, Robert.
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