american essays

A collection of essays in which the author searches for hope in nature and family in a world scarred by poverty and violence.

A collection of essays in which the African-American author discusses the things she cares about, shares personal experiences, and offers her opinion on a wide variety of subjects, including age and sexuality, the burdens of fame, and rage and violence.

Contains articles in which forty-three contemporary American poets discuss their art, including contributions from Alice Walker, Denise Levertov, Adrienne Rich, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, and others.

Reprints from the author's New York Times column examine such issues as war, the right to die, sexual harassment, abortion, rape, surrogate motherhood, and gay rights.

Presents fifteen essays and addresses by nineteenth-century American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, including such important works as "Self-Reliance, " "The Over-Soul, " and "Nature.".

A collection of critical essays by female poets on the works of poets such as Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Marianne Moore, and Sylvia Plath, among others.

Traces the history of American literary criticism, with numerous representative examples to demonstrate the development of American literature in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Presents a collection of autobiographical essays, cultural commentaries, book reviews, and personal prose by twentieth-century author Margaret Atwood including her "Letter to America" written after September 11, 2001.

A collection of essays in which the African-American author discusses the things she cares about, shares personal experiences, and offers her opinion on a wide variety of subjects, including age and sexuality, the burdens of fame, and rage and violence.

A collection of essays reflecting on Mexicans, Okies, poverty, childhood, poets and poetry and love--conjugal, filial, and fraternal. Each marks a step in the author's coming to terms with the world and the discovery of the radiance of human relationships.