| Description |
xxvi, 275 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
The best American series |
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Best American series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-275). |
| Contents |
Texas childhood / Rick Bass -- Parable / Dan Bellm -- Hidden city / Scott Cairns -- Miss Ivory Brown / Robin Cody -- Here and now we are walking together / Robert Coles -- Parable of the moth / Robert Cording -- Water will hold you : a daughter at prayer / Lindsey Crittenden -- Fire to fire / Mark Doty -- Earth music / David James Duncan -- Green-eyed monster : envy is nothing to be jealous of / Joseph Epstein -- Maseo Abe : a spiritual friendship / James Fredericks -- Fifteen ways of seeing the light / Peter Friederici -- Judaism beyond words : conclusion / David Gelernter -- Great spring / Natalie Goldberg -- Essay on snow / Allen Hoey -- Beneath the apple / Andrew Hudgins -- Grandmothers / Pico Iyer -- Lesson / Philip Levine -- Word hoard / B.K. Loren -- Good grief / Thomas Lynch -- Designer genes / Bill McKibben -- To the fire / W.S. Merwin -- Physics and grief / Patricia Monaghan -- In the beginning was consciousness / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Grace of aridity and other comedies / Kathleen Norris -- Annie mirror heart / Maura O'Halloran -- Ah, but the breezes ... / Noelle Oxenhandler -- Fighting the noonday devil / R.R. Reno -- For the war dead / Sarah Ruden -- Mind's eye : what the blind see / Oliver Sacks -- Birth / Sallie Tisdale -- God's delight / Miroslav Volf -- Doves / C.K. Williams -- Spokane : a triptych / Paul J. Willis -- Visiting / Franz Wright. |
| Subject |
Spiritual life -- Literary collections.
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American literature -- 21st century.
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| Added Author |
Zaleski, Philip.
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| ISBN |
0618443029 |
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9780618443024 |
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0618443037 paperback |
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9780618443031 paperback |
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