Visiting Emily : poems inspired by the life & work of Emily Dickinson

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Contemporary women poets

Table of Contents: “…Harry -- Anne Hebert -- Lyn Hejinian -- Judith Herzberg -- Dorothy Hewett -- Selima Hill -- Jane Hirshfield -- Linda Hogan -- Fanny Howe -- Susan Howe -- Keri Hulme -- Kathleen Jamie -- Lisa Jarnot -- Elizabeth Jennings -- Paulette Jiles -- Amryl Johnson -- Jenny Johnson -- Judith Johnson -- Patricia Spears Jones -- June Jordan -- Jenny Joseph -- Sylvia Kantaris -- Shirley Kaufman -- Jackie Kay -- Judith Kazantzis -- Antigone Kefalá -- Jan Kemp -- Jane Kenyon -- Faye Kicknosway -- Siew-Yue Killingley -- Carolyn Kizer -- Irena Klepfisz -- Joy Kogawa -- Lotte Kramer -- Maxine Kumin -- Joanne Kyger -- Anne Lauterbach -- Michele Leggott -- Denise Levertov -- Gwyneth Lewis -- Lyn Lifshin -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Liz Lochhead -- Jay Macpherson -- Naomi Long Madgett -- Sarah Maguire -- Jennifer Maiden -- Daphne Marlatt -- Bernadette Mayer -- Gerda Mayer -- Rachel McAlpine -- Medbh McGuckian -- Heather McHugh -- Rhyll McMaster -- Florence McNeil -- Sandra McPherson -- Cilia McQueen -- Paula Meehan -- Judith Minty -- Elma Mitchell -- Susan Mitchell -- Honor Moore -- Thylias Moss -- Erin Mouré -- Wendy Mulford -- Rona Murray -- Susan Musgrave -- Carol Muske -- Suniti Namjoshi -- Grace Nichols -- Eiléan Ni Chuilleanáin -- Nuala Ni Dromhnaill -- Alice Notley -- Naomi Shihab Nye -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Sharon Olds -- Mary Oliver -- Alicia Ostriker -- Maggie O'Sullivan -- Alice Oswald -- Jan Owen -- Rochelle Owens -- Linda Pastan -- Molly Peacock -- Marlene Nourbese Philip -- Marge Piercy -- Fiona Pitt-Kethley -- Minnie Bruce Pratt -- Sheenagh Pugh -- Naomi Replansky -- Joan Retallack -- Adrienne Rich -- Elizabeth Riddell -- Denise Riley -- Carolyn M. …”


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Best Monologues from The Best American Short Plays

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Literature : a portable anthology

Table of Contents: “…Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- An occurence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- In the land of the free / Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton) -- Hands / Sherwood Anderson -- The dead / James Joyce -- Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf -- The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- Bliss / Katherine Mansfield -- Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston -- A rose of Emily / William Faulkner -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- Reunion / John Cheever -- Battle royal / Ralph Ellison -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Happy endings / Margaret Atwood -- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- The red convertible / Louise Erdrich -- My name / Sandra Cisneros -- Sticks / George Saunders -- This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona / Sherman Alexie -- Mine / Alexander Chee -- The great silence / Ted Chiang -- Fiesta, 1980 / Junot Díaz -- Tome / Maile Meloy -- A thousand years of good prayers / Yiyun Li -- Brownies / ZZ Packer -- Echo Ave. / Adrian Tomine -- The thing around your neck / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,…”


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Literature and the environment : a reader on nature and culture

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Sweet nothings : an anthology of rock and roll in American poetry

Table of Contents: “…Love -- World without end / Kevin Stein -- Night waitress / Lynda Hull -- Waiting on Elvis, 1956 / Joyce Carol Oates -- Wildsisters Bar / Judith Vollmer -- On the Otis Redding bridge / Judson Mitcham -- Contributors' notes and comments -- Acknowledgments -- Author index -- Title index -- Index to first lines.…”


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The big book of female detectives

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Crossing boundaries : an international anthology of women's experiences in sport

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The art of the short story

Table of Contents: “…Le Guin: the ones who walk away from Omelas ; Author's perspective, Le Guin: On "The ones who walk away from Omelas" -- Doris Lessing: A woman on a roof ; Author's perspective, Lessing: My beginnings as a writer -- Jack London: To build a fire ; Author's perspective, London: Defending the factuality of "To build a fire" -- Katherine Mansfield: Miss Brill ; The garden-party ; Author's perspective, Mansfield: On "The garden-party" -- Bobbie Ann Mason: Shiloh ; Author's perspective, Mason: Minimalist fiction -- Guy de Maupassant: The necklace ; Author's perspective, Maupassant: The realist method -- Herman Melville: Bartleby, the scrivener : a story of Wall-Street ; Author's perspective, Melville: American literature -- Yukio Mishima: Patriotism ; Author's perspective, Mishima: Physical courage and death -- Alice Munro: How I met my husband ; Author's perspective, Munro: How I write short stories -- Joyce Carol Oates: where are you going, where have you been? …”


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50 years of Ms. : the best of the pathfinding magazine that ignited a revolution

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The Oxford book of women's writing in the United States

Table of Contents: “…Josiah / Marietta Holley -- A pair of silk stockings / Kate Chopin -- The other two / Edith Wharton -- Seventeen syllables / Hisaye Yamamoto -- Freedom / Nella Larsen -- Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston -- O yes / Tillie Olsen -- A late encounter with the enemy / Flannery O'Connor -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- The shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- Extenuating circumstances / Joyce Carol Oates -- Miss Clairol / Helena Maria Viramontes -- Recitatif / Toni Morrison -- In the American society / Gish Jen -- May's lion / Ursula K. …”


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Adaptations : from short story to big screen : 35 great stories that have inspired great films

Table of Contents: “…The independents: money changes everything -- "Where are you going, where have you been?" / by Joyce Carol Oates (Smooth talk, directed by Joyce Chopra, 1985) -- "Auggie Wren's Christmas story" / by Paul Auster (Smoke, directed by Wayne Wang, 1995) -- "Emergency" / by Denis Johnson (Jesus' son, directed by Alison Maclean, 1999) -- "Killings" / by Andre Dubus (In the bedroom, directed by Todd Field, 2001).…”


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161 one-minute monologues from literature

Table of Contents: “…Hunt -- The circles I move in / Diane Lefer -- The coach's wife / Barbara Casey -- Confessions of a shopaholic / Sophie Kinsella -- Detroit / Denise Dee -- The devil wears Prada / Lauren Weisberger -- Diamond / Maureen Ryan Griffin -- Diary of a psychotic cat / Justin Warner -- Frankenstein / Mary Shelley -- The future / Dori Appel -- The girl with the blackened eye / Joyce Carol Oates -- Girlfriends / Bridget Terry -- The great Gatsby / F. …”


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Music's spell : poems about music and musicians

Table of Contents: “…Pop, rock (heat / Denis Johnson -- First party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels / Allen Ginsberg -- Painkillers / Tom Gunn -- Waiting on Elvis, 1956 / Joyce Carol Oates -- The Supremes / Cornelius Eady -- Woody Guthrie visited by Bob Dylan : Brooklyn State Hospital, New York, 1961 / David Wojahn -- Mr Cognito and pop / Zbigniew Herbert -- The death of Janis Joplin / Robert Phillips -- from: Sleeve notes / Paul Muldoon) -- Jazz, blues (Strong, off Route 209 / Marie Ponsot -- Mood indigo / Ntozake Shange -- Eleven / Sterling D. …”


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Working classics : poems on industrial life

Table of Contents: “…Sear / Chris Llewellyn -- Heavy machinery / Robert Louthan -- Foundryblack / Charles Casey Martin -- Love in the coal mine / Suzanne Matson -- One summer / Robert Mezey -- Seeing them on television / Lisel Mueller -- Women whose lives are food, men whose lives are money. Ford / Joyce Carol Oates -- The abandoned Almire Mine. The miners at Revloc. …”


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The best advice I ever got : lessons from extraordinary lives by Couric, Katie, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Phil" McGraw -- The question / Alicia Keys -- Follow your bliss / Barbara Walters -- If you love doing it, you'll be very good at it / Ina Garten -- "Here is life..." / Joyce Carol Oates -- Get off the sidelines! / Chris Evert -- Trust your gut / Hugh Jackman -- Oh, Miss Midler... / Marc Shaiman -- I don't want to be reasonable / Matt Goldman -- Inspiration lives in unexpected places / Phil Stanton -- Be an untouchable, do what you love / Thomas Friedman -- Commit with your whole heart / Wynton Marsalis -- Life by design / Vera Wang --…”


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The best advice I ever got : lessons from extraordinary lives by Couric, Katie, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Phil" McGraw -- The question / Alicia Keys -- Follow your bliss / Barbara Walters -- If you love doing it, you'll be very good at it / Ina Garten -- "Here is life ..." / Joyce Carol Oates -- Get off the sidelines! / Chris Evert -- Trust your gut / Hugh Jackman -- Oh, Miss Midler ... / Marc Shaiman -- I don't want to be reasonable / Matt Goldman -- Inspiration lives in unexpected places / Phil Stanton -- Be an untouchable, do what you love / Thomas Friedman -- Commit with your whole heart / Wynton Marsalis -- Life by design / Vera Wang.…”


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Postmodern American fiction : a Norton anthology

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An American album : one hundred and fifty years of Harper's magazine

Table of Contents: “…Davis ; Late Victorians / Richard Rodriguez ; Ladies and gentlemen / Joyce Carol Oates ; The rake / David Mamet ; The 400-pound CEO / George Saunders ; The last shot / Darcy Frey ; On not being a victim / Mary Gaitskill ; Notebook: Morte de Nixon / Lewis H. …”


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The 60s : the story of a decade

Table of Contents: “…Borges) / John Updike -- The fire last time (William Styron's Confessions of Nat Turner) / George Steiner -- The unfinished man (Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint) / Brendan Gill -- The whole truth (Joyce Carol Oates's them) / L.E. Sissman -- Part VIII: Poetry. …”


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