Title

Richard Brautigan : essays on the writings and life / edited by John F. Barber.

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Barber, John F.

Description

vii, 306 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

Brautigan, Richard > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: The curve of binding memory / John F. Barber -- Checklist of works by Richard Brautigan -- In the riffles with Richard : a profile of Richard Brautigan / Keith Abbott -- Richard Brautigan and the final chapters in A Confederate General from Big Sur : a symposium / Amy Arenson, Veronica Stapleton, Mark Bernheim, Joan Harvey, Keith Abbott -- Drop of pouilly-fuissé into the Pacific Ocean / Pierre Autin-Grenier -- She's gone. It's done. / John F. Barber -- Secrets of fiction : where have you gone Richard Brautigan? / Kevin Berger -- Just like a poem : Richard Brautigan and Mad River / David Biasotti -- Gentle on the mind number / Robert Creeley -- Sketches of Richard Brautigan / Kenn Davis -- Shooting up the countryside / Helen Donlon -- Food stamps for the stars / Brad Donovan -- Brautigan and the eagles / Brad Donovan -- In memoriam : Richard Brautigan / Edward Dorn -- Perfect American / Jennifer Dunbar Dorn -- Last letter to Richard Brautigan / Gerald Haslam -- Glimpses of Richard Brautigan in the Haight -Ashbury / Claude Hayward -- Dreaming of Brautigan : an appreciation / Steve Heilig -- "Lit Crit," "Over Easy," and "R.I.P." : three vignettes / William Hjortsberg -- Dreaming Richard Brautigan / Greg Keeler -- Richard's miraculous mistakes / Greg Keeler -- I remember Richard Brautigan / Joanne Kyger -- Brautigan Library : a noble experiment / Todd Lockwood -- Brautigan Library founder's message / Todd Lockwood -- Richard Brautigan : a millennium paper airplane / Eric Lorberer -- Ninety one things about Richard Brautigan / Michael McClure -- Paper flowers : Richard Brautigan's poetry / Steven Moore -- West Coast dreamer : the lonely death of Richard Brautigan / Kevin Ring -- Historical present : notions of history, time and cultural lineage in the writing of Richard Brautigan / Neil Schiller -- Br'er Brautigan : trickster dead and well in Montana / Michael Sexson -- Notes from a Brautigan collector / Craig Showalter -- Richard Brautigan, flânerie, and Japan : some international perspectives on his work / Barnard Turner -- Visit to the "Confederate General from Big Sur" : 31 May 1965 / Erik Weber -- Talking with Richard Brautigan / F.N. Wright.

ISBN

• 0786425253 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780786425259 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• ^^2006024614
• 9780786425259

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library