Gathers poems by seventy-two modern writers, including John Ashbery, Erica Jong, Marilyn Hacker, John Ciardi, Dave Smith, Robert Penn Warren, Maxine Kumin, and Richard Wilbur

The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Middlebury College Pr

Spoilt Children of Empire: Westerners in Shanghai and the Chinese Revolution of the 1920s

History

Clifford, Nicholas R.

Asia

Writers on Writing (Bread Loaf Anthology)

Pack, Robert

United States

George P. Elliott, who died in 1980, is remembered both as a "writer's writer"--a master craftsman with an equal command of poetry and prose, fiction and nonfiction--and as a gifted and dedicated teacher, one of the architects of the Syracuse University graduate writing program. The Bread Loaf Series of Contemporary Writers introduces a new generation of readers and students to this versatile man of letters. Collecting short stories, essays, and the long narrative poem "Fever and Chills," this Reader reveals the range of Elliott's talents and his seemingly effortless command of the written word. The smooth, realistic style of his short stories enhances the emotional resonance of such pieces as "Hymn of Angels," or contrasts with the caustic satire of others, such as the darkly Orwellian "The N.R.A.C.P." His clear and elegant essays are constructed of incisive judgments and carefully considered opinions, founded on his sense of literature as a dynamic force, a mystery to be experienced, shared, and discussed. Among the pieces presented here is the previously uncollected "Snarls of Beauty," one of Elliott's strongest and most characteristic essays.

A George P. Elliott Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose (Bread Loaf Series of Contemporary Writers)

Elliott, George P

An Ira Sadoff Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose (The Bread Loaf Series of Contemporary Writers)

Sadoff, Ira

From Library Journal\nBy 1920 an enclave of some 38,000 foreigners lived in Shanghai with their own government, lifestyle, and privileges. This was not to last, for the decade brought challenges to this comfortable imperialism. In 1924 a local war linked the evils of warlords and imperialism in Chinese minds. The May 30, 1925 shooting of 11 Chinese by British police, with subsequent nationalist protests, began to chip away at foreign control in Shanghai. Chiang Kai-Shek's massacres of Communists of Shanghai in 1927 again showed Chinese influence over the city. Clifford writes this narrative with a solid grasp of complex events, well supported by source notes. With its evenhanded view, this book becomes a standard reference for foreign Shanghai in the 1920s. Recommended for scholars and specialists. --Elizabeth A. Teo, Moraine Valley Com munity Coll. Lib., Palos Hills, Ill. 
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A celebratory collection of fiction, poetry, and essays from "one of the liveliest, best, and most readable of the literary quarterlies this country has ever produced (Anthony Hecht)." Includes numerous early pieces by now established writers such as Louise Erdrich and Raymond Carver as well as works by literary luminaries and prize winners such as Joyce Carol Oates, Seamus Heaney, Richard Eberhart, Maxine Kumin, and Robert Penn Warren among its 64 contributors.

The Unfeigned Word: Fifteen Years of New England Review

Hummer, T.R.

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

JUSTICE, Donald

A unique evolutionary history, told through the mutual interaction of Vermont's natural and human components.

The Story of Vermont: A Natural and Cultural History (Middlebury Bicentennial Series in Environmental Studies)

Trombulak, Stephen C.

Klyza, Christopher McGrory

Americas

"Landscape history or natural history without humans is incomplete history," write authors Christopher McGrory Klyza and Stephen C. Trombulak. In their very readable portrayal of geological, biological, and cultural forces that produced the Vermont of today, they use interconnectedness as a lens to view the changing landscape. Sections such as "From Forestland to Farmland to Funland" describe reciprocal influences of ecosystems, humans, and topography over time. Sections on specific bioregions explain unique interactions of climate and the living world. Whether writing about the emergence of mountain ranges millennia ago, building interstate highways, encounters of indigenous cultures with Europeans, or Act 250's environmental impact, they make it clear that this is not a typical nature guide. They describe the pre-human evolution of the area and its development into distinct biophysical regions, and then show how pre-Columbian inhabitants engaged and altered the landscape. They trace both the enormous effects of European settlement, as well as how the ecosystem influenced human habitation and activity. Finally, they examine Vermont's three natural communities: forest, open terrestrial, and aquatic. Throughout, they impart much specific knowledge about Vermont, speculate on its future, and foster an appreciation of the complex synergy of forces that produced this region.

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