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Genre/Form: | Fictional Work Nonfiction Fiction Romans Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Where books fall open. Boston : D.R. Godine Publisher, 2001 (OCoLC)606599797 |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Bascove. |
ISBN: | 1567921868 9781567921861 1567922511 9781567922516 |
OCLC Number: | 47803561 |
Description: | 149 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Lovers of Reading -- If On a Winter's Night a Traveler / Italo Calvino -- Ruined by Reading / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Summertime and the Reading Is Heavy / Roy Blount, Jr. -- Reading Something in the Restaurant / Raymond Carver -- Listening to the Radio / Mary Stewart Hammond -- Reading Goals / Karen Chambers -- The Pleasures of Reading / Charles Simic -- The Library in the Garret / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- The Back Bedroom / Virginia Woolf -- How to Organize a Public Library / Umberto Eco -- Ethereal Mildness / Dorothy Parker -- Books Are for Reading / Robertson Davies -- Never Do That to a Book / Anne Fadiman -- The White Page -- Poem White Page/White Page Poem / Muriel Rukeyser -- Purity / Billy Collins -- The Joy of Writing / Wislawa Szymborska -- The Poet / Anna Akhmatova -- Afternoon in the House / Jane Kenyon -- The Notebooks of Maulte Laurids Brigge / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Seeds of Poetry / Qin Zihao -- English B / Langston Hughes -- Opportunities in Poetry / Calvin Trillin -- Word / Pablo Neruda -- Word Music / Jerome Charyn -- This Monkey, My Back / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- If I Die Solvent / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Poetry's Value / Xi Murong -- My Curtains: Snowbound from Having a Baby, Finishing a Book / Mary Gordon -- The Poet / Jane Hirshfield -- An Old Prayer / Joyce Carol Oates -- Psalm to Snake / Margaret Atwood -- A Word from the Words from Pure Drivel / Steve Martin -- The Writer / Richard Wilbur -- Writing: A Life Sentence / Fran Lebowitz -- Sign Writing / Calvin Trillin. |
Responsibility: | paintings by Bascove. |
Abstract:
A collection of essays, poems and short fiction by well-known authors about the joys of books and reading.
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