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articles, introductions, and reminiscencesSam Ross: How It Feels An Introduction Baron Wormser, Poet as Novelist An Introduction Wyn Cooper, Poetry without Maps An Introduction Jill Bialosky, Literary Utility Infielder An Introduction Baron Wormser, Twice A Pair of Introductions Eliani Torres, Eroticist An Introduction Under the Microscope Three Candidates Visit New Hampshire Sarah Micklem: Getting Past “Fantasy” An Introduction Dick Cheney and the Values of Wyoming Some Questions for the Vice President The Election of 2000 Our Ladder to the Twenty-First Century One Step for Life A Miraculous Deliverance, by Paul W. Fleming America through Foreign Eyes How We Look to Them In America, They Cut Your Head Off Among the Hmong Just in Time The Collapse of Sequence into a Moment of Peril
scholarly worksO Window In the Dark The Early Career of Vladimir Nabokov Myself That I Remake Spiritual Renewal in the Life and Works of William Butler Yeats Ghostly Gladness The Soul Music of Richard Rolle, Fourteenth Century Mystic
essays and assignments for college writing studentsYou Are a Writer Introduction to college writing Writing Writing Writing for scientists and mathematicians Telling Your Own Story Some suggestions concerning your autobiography Getting to the Heart of the Matter Some suggested topics for an essay on a moral or political issue Writing about Writing Some suggestions concerning the “literary criticism” essay Becoming Literate Some suggestions for writing about literacy Eye to Eye with the Blind Bard Some suggestions for writing about Homer’s Odyssey How to Read Rolle’s Lyrics Suggestions for reading medieval poetry . . . or any poetry Technology: Friend or Foe? Some suggestions for writing about Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Rhythm, Tone, & Flow The three key elements of a writer’s style Who Is the Grader? Reflections on college grades and grading “A” Is for Rhino More reflections on college grading
essays on death and dyingTo Look Without Blinking An application for volunteer work with the Zen Hospice Project We’re All Living, We’re All Dying A speech at the Laguna Honda Hospital Volunteers Luncheon, 1994 The Moment A speech at the Laguna Honda Hospital Volunteers Luncheon, 1996 Choosing to Be Here A speech at the Laguna Honda Hospital Volunteers Luncheon, 1997 That Smell A speech at the Laguna Honda Hospital Volunteers Luncheon, 1998
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