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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794917503321

Autore

Lazar David <1957->

Titolo

I'll be your mirror : essays and aphorisms / / David Lazar ; illustrated by Heather Frise

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-4962-0518-9

1-4962-0520-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 pages)

Classificazione

LCO010000

Disciplina

814/.6

Soggetti

American essays - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments <BR /> Brigadoon Bowling<BR /> Ann; Death and the Maiden <BR /> When I'm Awfully Low: On Singing <BR /> Lollipop Is Mine <BR /> Brushes with the Great and Not-So-Great <BR /> Brigadoon Bowling <BR /> Five Autobiographical Fragments, or She May Have Been a Witch <BR /> Pandora and the Naked Dead Woman <BR /> To the Reader, Sincerely<BR /> To the Reader, Sincerely <BR /> Being a Boy-Man <BR /> Hydra: I'll Be Your Mirror <BR /> A Conversation with Robert Burton, Author of Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), vox es, praeterea nihil <BR /> Meet Montaigne! (with Patrick Madden) <BR /> The Typologies of John Earle <BR /> Voluptuously, Expansively, Historically, Contradictorily: Essaying the Interview with David Lazar and Mary Cappello <BR /> Rock, Paper, Scissors, God: aphorismics <BR /> Rock, Paper, Scissors, God <BR /> Mothers, Etc. <BR /> Source Credits.

Sommario/riassunto

"A collection of personal essays, pieces exploring the essay form, and aphorisms, I'll Be Your Mirror explores memory, pain, historical essayists, contemporary creative nonfiction, all in the distinct voice of premier essayist David Lazar"--