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Buying time : an anthology celebrating 20 years of the literature program of the National Endowment for the Arts

Title
Buying time : an anthology celebrating 20 years of the literature program of the National Endowment for the Arts / edited by Scott Walker ; introduction by Ralph Ellison.
Publication
Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, [1985], ©1985.

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Additional Authors
  • Walker, Scott
  • Ellison, Ralph
  • Swenson, Tree
  • National Endowment for the Arts.
Description
xxv, 336 pages; 25 cm
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • American literature > 20th century
  • American literature
Contents
Prisoner at a desk / May Sarton -- Some words / John Ashbery -- from The dream songs / John Berryman -- Night / Louise Bogan -- Monologue -- Tangier 1975 / Paul Bowles -- from Rubyfruit jungle / Rita Mae Brown -- Gazebo / Raymond Carver -- The poet and the turning / Lucille Clifton -- Mother's voice / Robert Creeley -- Variations on two dicta by William Blake / Robert Duncan -- The conventional wisdom / Stanley Elkin -- Flesh and blood / Louise Erdrich -- The memory of Elena / Carolyn Forche -- from Fefu and her friends / Maria Irene Fornes -- Each bird walking / Tess Gallagher -- Nimram / John Gardner -- Plutonian ode / Allen Ginsberg -- Horse / Louise Gluck -- The traveler / John Hawkes -- from China men / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The seekonk woods / Galway Kinnell -- The bones of my father / Etheridge Knight -- The image maker / Stanley Kunitz -- New Season / Philip Levine -- The sound of the light / W.S. Merwin -- Humpbacks / Mary Oliver -- from Trust / Cynthia Ozick -- Faith in a tree / Grace Paley -- If they come in the night / Marge Piercy -- On flower wreath hill / Kenneth Rexroth -- Easter eve, 1945 / Muriel Rukeyser -- The silent minister / May Sarton -- from Sassafrass, cypress & indigo / Ntozake Shange -- The slaughterer / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The abortion / Alice Walker -- The liar / Tobias Wolff -- The other side of the river / Charles Wright.
ISBN
  • 091530872X
  • 9780915308729
LCCN
85080545
OCLC
  • ocm12865389
  • 12865389
  • SCSB-2472688
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Columbia University Libraries