Writers on Writing: A Bread Loaf Anthology

Reference

Pack, Robert

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Middlebury College

A Donald Justice Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose (Bread Loaf Series of Contemporary Writers)

Literature & Fiction

JUSTICE, Donald

United States

The author of Tender Mercies and Civil Wars demonstrates her command of diverse genres in this engaging collection of poetry, short stories, and essays. Best known for her carefully crafted, emotionally resonant novels, Rosellen Brown is committed to the ideal of the well-rounded writer. She shifts easily from prose to poetry, from fiction to nonfiction, from novels to short stories with an assured mastery of each form that enriches her work in the others. This Reader is the first book to bring together her work in a variety of genres, presenting many previously uncollected stories and essays. The collection reveals the wide range of her imagination and the evolution of her central themes. "Like a pilot flying low over the land," she writes in her introduction, "I've finally been able to study what my 'central work,' my novels, can't teach me--the general shape of my preoccupations across the years; the rises and declivities of skill, curiosity, casual engagement, and inescapable obsession." Intermixing clusters of short stories, poetry, and essays, Brown creates a collage of her own writing in which certain themes--the struggle for self-definition in terms of gender, ethnic heritage, or sense of place; the responsibilities of human beings to one another; the constant challenge of adapting to changing circumstances--recur in the midst of experimentation in form, voice, and structure. In a final interview, she says, "ultimately, all of our work will be seen from a distance, like a view of the earth from above, and it will turn out that the shape and size of this or that body of writing will look wholly different from up there." This Reader is our first step in gaining that elevated perspective on a distinguished career.

A Rosellen Brown Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose (Bread Loaf Series of Contemporary Writers)

BROWN, Rosellen

A Lynne Sharon Schwartz Reader: Selected Prose and Poetry (The Bread Loaf Series of Contemporary Writers)

Schwartz, Lynne Sharon

Walking to Cootehill: New and Selected Poems, 1958-1992

Engels, John

Poetry

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A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose (The Bread Loaf Series of Contemporary Writers)

Willard, Nancy

American Identities: Contemporary Multicultural Voices

Contemporary commentators have observed that postmodern America is less a melting pot than a buffet table. In American Identities people of diverse ethnic, religious, social, gender, and sexual backgrounds "refuse to merge but insist on a multiplicity of well-maintained identities," editors Robert Pack and Jay Parini explain. This sixth volume in the popular Bread Loaf Anthology series gathers more than three dozen voices who testify that there is no single American Experience, but instead a multiplicity of experiences. These poems, stories, and essays describe in occasionally stark, sometimes humorous, and often moving terms what it means to be black and American, or gay and American, or Latino and American, or Jewish and American within this society.

American Identities: Contemporary Multicultural Voices (A Bread Loaf Anthology)

Essays & Correspondence

The Dialogics of Dissent in the English Novel

Baldridge, Cates

History & Criticism

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