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Title

After the bell : contemporary American prose about school / edited by Maggie Anderson & David Hassler.

Publication

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors

• Anderson, Maggie.
• Hassler, David, 1964-

Description

xiv, 183 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

These sixty-two short essays describe in many voices the emotional complexity and historical record of one experience most of us have in common : elementary and secondary school.

Subject

• Schools > Literary collections
• School prose, American
• Education in literature

Genre/Form

Literary collections

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• From Indian Education / Sherman ALexie -- In the Art Room / Maggie Anderson -- The Invisible Boy in a Jock / Rane Arroyo -- from Feeling Different / Esther Royer Ayers -- from How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir / Phyllis Barber -- Flurry / Jan Beatty -- The Invisibles / Mark Brazatis -- My Time on Earth / Christopher Buckley -- Let's Move Our Chairs and Desks Around and See What We Can See / David Citino -- Here and Now We Are Walking Togeher / Robert Coles -- The World According to Mr. Coosak / Katie Daley -- from The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey / Toi Derricotte -- from An American Childhood / Annie Dillard -- from Firebird: A Memoir / Mark Doty -- Learning Politics in the First Grade / Violet A. Dutcher -- The Day I Stopphed Hating Cheerleaders / Joyce Dyer -- Votive / Linda Dyer -- After the Facts: Poetry and the Sophomores / Kathy Evans -- from Colored People: A Memoir / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Does Not Use Free Time Wisely / Diane Gilliam --^
• from Milltown Natural: Essays and Stories from a Life / Richard Hague -- Wrestling Mr. Dietz / David Lassler -- Professional Knowledge and Practice / Ruth Ella Hendricks -- The End / William Heyen -- History Dancing / Faith S. Holsaert -- Friday Night Heroes / Hank Hudepohl -- Our Song / Lawson Fusao Inada -- Portrait of a Poet as a Public School Kid / Julia Spicher Kasdorf -- from "School" / Garrison Keillor -- Dreams of Math / Jane Kenyon -- from Everything You Always Wanted to Know / Jesse Lee Kercheval -- How Mr. Dewey Decimal Saved My Life / Barbara Kingsolver -- Yearbook / Leonard Kress -- from Planet of the Blind / Stephen Kuusisto -- from The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography / Philip Levine -- from Zami: A New Spelling of My Name / Audre Lorde -- I Am a Cloud: Revisited, or an Open Letter to My Third Grade Teacher / Peter Markus -- Orbit / Rebecca McClanahan -- The Mitchell Movement / Kenneth A. McClane -- from Three Lessons / Brenda Miller --^
• Last Day of School / Naomi Shihab Nye -- from The Blessing / Gregory Orr -- from Kwanzaa and Me: A Teacher's Story / Vivian Gussin Paley -- Under the Guidance of Falling Petals / Maj Ragain -- from The Body of My Work / Alberto Ríos -- The Music Teachers of St. Augustine's Elementary / Suzanne Rivecca -- from Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. / Luis J. Rodriguez -- from Asians / Richard rodriguez -- from Some Shelter / David Romtvedt -- Some of Us / Vern Rutsala -- The Real Questions / Scott Russell Sanders -- from Tales Out of School: Contemporary Writers on Their Student Years / Susan Richards Shreve -- from The Red Pencil: Convictions from Experience in Education / Theodore R. Sizer -- fro My Working-Class Education / Larry Smith -- Catholics / Gary Soto -- High School Baseball Tryouts / Michael Steinberg -- Milk Money / Judith Gold Stitzel -- One of the Men in the White Coats / Lawrence Sutin --^
• from With Their Eyes: September 11th-The View from a High School at Ground Zero / Annie Thoms -- Reverie / Jane Tompkins -- Before and After / Bruce Weigl -- What I Learned in First Grade / Meredith Sue WIllis.

ISBN

• 1587296039 (cloth)
• 9781587296031 (cloth)

LCCN

^^2007007337

OCLC

• 85243817
• SCSB-12291744

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library