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Writers on America : 15 reflections.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PS509.H5 W75 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Patriotic literature, American.
- American literature--20th century.
- American literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Hoeffel, Joseph M. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 61 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.?] : Office of International Information Programs, U.S. Dept. of State, [2002]
- Contents:
- Just off Main Street / Elmaz Abinader
- I, too, sing América / Julia Alvarez
- The compulsory power of American dreams / Sven Birkerts
- A postcard from America / Robert Olen Butler
- Maps & legends / Michael Chabon
- What's American about American poetry / Billy Collins
- America's American / Robert Creeley
- On being an American historian / David H. Donald
- How does being an American inform what I write? / Richard Ford
- For life's sake / Linda Hogan
- Both sides of the border / Mark Jacobs
- An American milk bottle / Charles Johnson
- On being an American writer / Bharati Mukherjee
- This crutch that I love / Naomi Shihab Nye
- A provincial sense of time / Robert Pinsky.
- OCLC:
- 51776346
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