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An American mosaic : prose and poetry by everyday folk
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"An American Mosaic is composed of pieces that taken together provide a vivid look at vanishing scenes of American life." "Here, Robert Wolf offers a collective autobiography of the American heartl...
"An American Mosaic is composed of pieces that taken together provide a vivid look at vanishing scenes of American life." "Here, Robert Wolf offers a collective autobiography of the American heartland written for the most part by everyday men and women without literary ambition. Focusing on the second half of the twentieth century, this collection of essays, short stories, poems, and memoirs - woven together with Wolf's introductory notes and commentaries - is the culmination of nine years of Free River Press writing workshops conducted by Wolf for the purpose of documenting contemporary American life."--BOOK JACKET.
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- edited by Robert Wolf
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- English
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 1999
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- xvi, 328 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780195127126, 0195127129, 9780195132649, 0195132645
- OCLC
- ocm40595304
- El Gilbert -- Well Seasoned -- 100% Texan -- Drunk -- Winter Boy -- I'm Sorry But -- Temporary Relief -- Exempt from Death -- Wouldn't You Know It -- Diana Schooler -- Frightened by Sounds of Night -- The Night is Cool ... -- I've Dreamed Many Dreams that Never Came True -- Sometimes You Hurt Me Terribly -- You've Awakened Ideas, Thoughts -- Sad, Ashamed -- You Ask Just What You Can Do for Me -- Robert Roberg -- Dressed in Doubt -- The Shadow -- Church House Blues -- The Way up Is Down -- Thru a Poor Man's Eyes -- Rebel Yell -- What Really Happened to Us -- Here I Sit across the Street -- Traveling Fever -- Lord, Take my Weakness -- Joe Goller -- I Watched a Rose -- When My Life Is Gone -- ??? -- Love -- Female Guard -- Phrasing -- I Hate -- The Right Road / Wayne Leonhard -- I Am a Man / Karl Smithson -- The Beginning of the End / Jim Mince -- Commentary: Can We Find Our Way Home? -- Memories / Richard Sandry -- Threshing / Richard Sandry -- Meals for Threshers / Clara Leppert -- The Tornado / Francis Cole -- Aprons / Barb Mitchell -- The Coming of Machinery / Barb Leppert -- The Silo / Dan Byrnes -- Farming / Bob Leppert -- Getting Started / Esther Welsh -- Choices / Esther Welsh -- Forced Auctions / Greg Welsh -- Storm Clouds / Richard Sandry -- Diary / David Mitchell -- Soil / Bruce Carlson -- The Day the Welsh Family Farm Turned Around / Bill Welsh -- The Way Back / Greg Welsh -- Do You Know Who Grows Your Food? / Linda Nash and Michael Nash -- Vertical Integration in Agriculture / Don Klauke and Mary Klauke -- Commentary: Daniel In the Lion's Den / Norman White -- The Jeffersonian Ideal -- Saturday Nights in Clermont / Khaki Nelson -- Brick City Ice Cream / Doris Martin -- Saturday Nights / Laverne Swenson -- Burkhard Riegel / Mike Finnegan -- Party Line / Lois Amundson -- Moving from the City to Clermont in 1992 / Jennifer Olufsen -- A Changing Neighborhood / Jerry Kelly -- The Flood of 1990 / Delores Martin -- $4.65 / Hannah Chesmore -- College Choices / Lisa Schmidt -- Where Do You Want to Be? / Patrick Kipp -- Commentary: Small Town Economics -- Communal Kitchens / Marie Calihan -- Vignettes of a High Amana Childhood / Marietta Moershel -- Easter / Barbara Hoehnle -- Stardom for Oma / Lawrence Rettig -- Carrie's Hair / Lawrence Rettig -- Lina / Dianne Rathje -- My Wedding: October 23, 1948 / Mary Ann Fels -- Just Plain Goodness / Gaycia Neubauer -- Fields and Buildings / Ray Moser -- The Prairie Skiff / Emily Hoppe -- Commentary: The Amanas -- The Midnight Watch Change / Captain Jack Libbey -- Mississippi Towboat Rides / Mary Kathleen Julian -- Commercial Fishing / Robert Teff -- River Towns / Lyle Ernst -- My Mississippi Mistress / Ken Jones -- Carthage, Boomtown / Marjorie White -- Lucky Lacey / Chris Crawford -- Selections from Dirt and Duty / Murray Hudson -- Commentary: Delta History