UID:
almafu_9959323154102883
Format:
1 online resource (271 pages)
ISBN:
1-4962-0627-4
,
1-4962-0629-0
Content:
"The Shell Game is an anthology of magical essays that borrow their structures from ordinary, everyday sources : a recipe, a crossword puzzle, a Craig's List ad. This volume contains a carefully chosen selection of beautifully written, thought-provoking hybrid essays tackling a broad range of subjects"--
Note:
Foreword : discovering the hermit crab essay / Brenda Miller -- A natural history of the North American hermit crab essay / Kim Adrian -- Grand theft auto / Joey Franklin -- Ok, Cupid / Sarah McColl -- Rubik's cube, six twisted paragraphs / Kathryn A. Kopple -- Solving my way to grandma / Laurie Easter -- Genome tome / Priscilla Long -- As is / Brian Oliu -- Falling in love with a glass house : twenty-four views of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth house / Jennifer Metsker -- Son of Mr. Green Jeans : an essay on fatherhood, alphabetically arranged / Dinty W. Moore -- Snakes & ladders / Anushka Jasraj -- Math 1619 / Gwendolyn Wallace -- Stagecraft / Mary Peelen -- We regret to inform you / Brenda Miller -- The six answers on the back of a trivia card / Caitlin Horrocks -- Piecing the quilt of valor / Judith Sornberger -- Self-portrait as a 1970s cineplex movie theatre (an Abecedarian) / Steve Fellner -- The forgetting test / Lee Upton -- #MISCARRIAGE.EXE / Ingrid Jendrzejewski -- SECTION 404 / Cheyenne Nimes -- The body (an excerpt) / Jenny Boully -- Questionnaire for my grandfather / Kim Adrian -- The Petoskey catechism, 1958 / Elizabeth Kerlikowske -- What signifies (three parables) / David Shields -- The marriage license / Judy Bolton-Fasman -- The heart as a torn muscle / Randon Billings Noble -- The spectrum (of miracles and mysteries) / Steve Edwards -- "Easy as pie," that's a lie / Amy Wallen -- Outline toward a theory of the mine versus the mind and the Harvard outline / Ander Monson -- The clockwise detorsion of snails : a love essay in sectors / Karen Hays -- Postscript : forms on the page / Cheyenne Nimes.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8032-9676-2
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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