Research Catalog

Title

September 11, 2001 : American writers respond / edited by William Heyen.

Publication

Silver Springs, MD : Etruscan Press, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Heyen, William, 1940-

Description

xii, 440 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"Written during the three months following September 11, 2001, this book catches the first, passionate reactions of our country's finest writers to the matrix of events that will continue to intensify in the American conscience, and that will inevitably define the dawn of the new century. In September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond, poets, fiction writers and essayists bare America's collective psyche during this perilous, emotionally charged time. There are searing memoirs here, letters, poems, brief fictions, essays, and contributions beyond classification."--Back Cover.

Subjects

• Literary collections
• Terrorism > Literary collections
• American literature > 21st century
• Victims of terrorism > Literary collections
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Literary collections

Genre/Form

Literary collections

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Preface -- To the words / W.S. Merwin -- Anthem September 11,2001 / Tammam Adi -- Fairy tale / Ai -- Letters / John Allman, David Zane Mairowitz -- Pittsburgh, 0/10/02, 7:30 P.M. / Melissa Altenderfer -- From Skyscraper Apocalypse/Antler -- What we have lost, what we must save / Philip Appleman -- The Accountant's Exodus/September 28, 2001/Missing / Michael Atkinson -- Late Blooming roses / David Baker -- Making Love after September 11, 2001 / Aliki Barnstone -- Our New York rooms in the 103- ... /Hanging on spikes, dropping to earth / Willis Barnstone -- Thoughts in the presence of fear / Wendell Berry -- Houses of history are made of words / Patrick Bizzaro -- Sisters / Karen Blomain -- The language of disaster/the altars of September / Bruce Bond -- from Twelve Meditations / Emily Borenstein -- Blackout/Return to the city, a dream / Jonah Bornstein -- The First of October, We / Daniel Bourne -- Letter to Bill Heyen/Late Elegy / Philip Brady --^
• Budbill and Parker together again/What Issa heard / David Budbill -- The Attending / Fred Chappell -- A Writer's pledge of allegiance / Kelly Cherry -- Footrace along the Brooklyn Bridge / Vince Clemente -- 9/11/01-9/17/01 / Lucille Clifton -- Safe House / Christopher Conlon -- Strangers / Lucille Lang Day -- Waking to the world's pain / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Ground/Zero/Ethics / Richard Deming -- Waiting room / Rosemarie DiMatteo -- Zero at the bone/Zero / Elizabeth Dodd -- The Third Tower/In the third tower / Wayne Dodd -- Jesus was a terrorist / Sharon Doubiago -- Coat of sorrow / Bart Edelman -- The silence/September ever after / Karl Elder -- Five poems / Marcia Falk -- Resolve / Richard Foerster -- Lament for the world / Nora Gallagher -- I have never wanted to March / Tess Gallagher -- Fragments/Walking corn hill road / Brendan Galvin -- The Ruin / Dan Giancola -- Sept. 11th, Meagan's birthday / Daniela Gioseffi -- Lamentations / Diane Glancy --^
• Crash / Patricia Goedicke -- Thinking about the unthinkable, Again / Laurence Goldstein -- The Ladybugs / Ray Gon.

ISBN

• 0971822816
• 0971822808 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004273861

OCLC

• 55962568
• SCSB-12391456

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library