Pioneer Letters : The Letter As Literature

by University of Oregon

• ISBN13: 9780871140449
• ISBN10: 0871140446
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. viii
Documents
Ira Gardner - Two Letters	p. 2
William S. Prichard - Eleven Letters	p. 5
Almira Adeline David Raymond - Three Letters	p. 13
Darius Smith - One Letter	p. 16
Kate L. Robbins - Six Letters and Two Poems	p. 18
Crawford Isbell - Three Letters	p. 33
John Haines - Three Letters	p. 38
Poetry
Michel Writes from Rouen	p. 62
Harmony	p. 65
Picking the Movies	p. 66
Ham Chamberlayne to His Mother...	p. 67
4.16.78 (Macon, Georgia)	p. 69
A Letter from My Good Hand	p. 71
Either Way	p. 74
Dear Mother	p. 75
Howland House	p. 76
Letter	p. 78
Dear Son	p. 79
Letter to Hugo from Boring	p. 82
Killing Them	p. 83
Sonnet VIII	p. 84
Part of the Waking	p. 85
Keeping in Touch	p. 86
First Kiss	p. 87
Slips	p. 88
Letter from D.S.	p. 91
Fiction
A Weaver and Dyer of Purple	p. 100
from The Shakino Gang	p. 107
7.2.77	p. 116
Letter to a Biographer	p. 119
Some Unsolicited Manuscripts	p. 127
Selected Letters from Panickers' Travels	p. 132
Further Adventures of Beauty and the Beast	p. 148
A Matter of Conscience	p. 153
For the Forsaken, there is No Song	p. 171
Jeu D'Esprit	p. 180
Art
Four Painted Letters	p. 51
Postcard Reassembly	p. 93
Letters to Helen	p. 187
Essays and Reviews
"Reach Hag Hands and Haul Me In"--Matrophobia in the Letters of Sylvia Plath	p. 198
The Making of a Method: Margaret Mead in Her Letters	p. 209
Whatever Happened to Realism: John Barth's Letters	p. 218
Epistolary Poetry--The Poem as Letter; the Letter as Poem	p. 228
The Letter-Poem	p. 235
Other Voices than Their Own, a review of Gary Gildner's Letters from Vicksburg, and Angela Peckenpaugh's Letters from Lee's Army	p. 246
Seeking Kindness from the Dust--Chinese Letter Poems	p. 254
Contributors	p. 271
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