Upstream : selected essays / by Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019

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Condition red : essays, interviews, and commentaries / by Komunyakaa, Yusef

Table of Contents: “…Tunson's neo-blues -- Conundrum -- Clarence Major's cosmopolitan vision -- Dark waters -- The method of Ai -- Collaboration and the wishbone -- Three shades of past -- Excursions -- Getting a shape -- The Wolf/ Interview -- Celebration and confrontation: Walt Whitman -- III. Commentaries -- Notes from a lost notebook -- You made me -- More than a state of mind -- Eros, words -- A letter to Poetry -- Small illuminations -- How poetry helps people to live their lives -- Picking a lock to the mind-jail in the city of Asylum -- A note from The Best American Erotic poems -- The mission of American poets and writers visiting the 2008 Kolkata Book Fair -- Rewriting Dante.…”
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Who's yer daddy? : gay writers celebrate their mentors and forerunners /

Table of Contents: “…All our daddies - and then some / Jim Elledge and David Groff -- Culture club in space : an anecdotal poetics / Benjamin S. Grossberg -- Walt Whitman : glow on the extremest / Verge Mark Doty -- Latin moon daddy / Charles Rice González -- Making a man out of me / Richard Blanco -- Under the influence / Chip Livingston -- My mother's grave is yellow / Dale Peck -- Some notes, thoughts, recollections, revisions, and corrections regarding becoming being and remaining a gay writer / Justin Chin -- My three dads / Charles Jensen -- Orpheus in Texas / Saeed Jones -- "It does not have to be yours" / Mark Bibbins -- A hidden life (on Joy Williams) / Paul Lisicky -- Positively not : a talk about poetries and traditions / Brian Teare -- Romantic / Jeff Mann -- The Tallahatchie meets the Arve, or unexpected gay confluences in the '70s / Greg Hewett -- How I learned to drive : the education of a gay disabled writer / Kenny Fries -- How to skin a deer / Martin Hayatt -- The little girls with penises / Jim Elledge -- Oubloir / David McConnell -- Beloved Jotoranos / Rigoberto González -- Leaving Berlin / Ellery Washington -- Teenage riot : notes on some books that guide me through a profoundly hormonal time / Alistair McCartney -- My radical dads / David Groff -- The mentor I never met : Janet Frame / Aaron Hamburger -- The case of the undone novel / Richard McCann -- Fugitives / James Allen Hall -- Some notes on influences or why I am not objective / Michael Klein -- I will tell this story the way I choose / Shaun Levin -- Thom Gunn : a memoir of reading / Randall Mann -- Queering an Italian American poetic legacy / Peter Covino -- Vanity Fairey Interviews writer Noël Alumit / Noël Alumit -- The four of them / Thomas Glave -- Jumpstart / Tim Miller -- Caliban / Dave King -- My first poetic mentor was a Welshman named Leslie / Timothy Liu -- The world is full of orphans / Raymond Luczak -- The seismology of love and letters / Brian Leung -- Botticelli boy / Rick Barot -- Miss thing / Paul Bonin-Rodriguez -- Thirteen ways of looking at my father / K.M. …”
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The mirror diary : selected essays / by Hongo, Garrett Kaoru, 1951-

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The glorious American essay : one hundred essays from colonial times to the present /

American Earth : environmental writing since Thoreau /