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Tables of Contents for In Short
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface: The Disproportionate Power of the Small
17
6
Bernard Cooper
Editors' Introduction
23
8
Lights
31
1
Stuart Dybek
All-Out Effort
32
2
Reginald Gibbons
Volar
34
3
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Around the Corner
37
2
Sharon Bryan
Enough Jam for a Lifetime
39
5
Maxine Kumin
An Unspoken Hunger
44
1
Terry Tempest Williams
Three Voices
45
3
Bhanu Kapil
Proofs
48
7
Richard Rodriguez
Tino & Papi
55
2
Norma Elia Cantu
Last Shot
57
3
Tobias Wolff
LZ Gator, Vietnam, February 1994
60
2
Tim O'Brien
Culloden
62
3
Judith Kitchen
Afternoon Tea
65
3
Emily Hiestand
The Shock of Teapots
68
4
Cynthia Ozick
Harbour
72
2
Michael Ondaatje
The Opposite of Saffron
74
5
Mary Paumier Jones
In Praise of the Humble Comma
79
4
Pico Iyer
Suspended
83
2
Joy Harjo
The Blues Merchant
85
2
Jerome Washington
The Usual Story
87
3
Fred Setterberg
Joe Turner's Come and Gone: The Play
90
2
August Wilson
Sunday
92
2
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Mint Snowball
94
2
Naomi Shihab Nye
Borrowed Time
96
2
Paul West
Loose Ends
98
2
Rita Dove
Nostalgia
100
2
Richard Shelton
Across the Street
102
2
Bia Lowe
A Wind from the North
104
3
Bill Capossere
Snow
107
3
John Haines
Decoy
110
5
Franklin Burroughs
Growing Up Game
115
5
Brenda Peterson
Rose Vegetables
120
3
David James Duncan
Interlude
123
2
William Kittredge
Orange Who?
125
3
Gwendolyn Nelson
Hands
128
3
Ted Kooser
The Signature of God
131
2
Judson Mitcham
My Children Explain the Big Issues
133
3
Will Baker
The Complaint
136
2
William Matthews
My Mother in Two Photographs, Among Other Things
138
4
Aleida Rodriguez
Ice Cream
142
2
Susanna Kaysen
On the Street
144
2
Vivian Gornick
Call Guy
146
3
Alec Wilkinson
Locker Room Talk
149
3
Stephen Dunn
White Men Can't Drum
152
5
Sherman Alexie
Cat-Like
157
5
John Holman
MRI
162
3
Jim DeCamp
On Two Wheels
165
3
Lee Gutkind
Running Xian
168
4
John Calderazzo
A Note about Allen Tate
172
3
Kelly Cherry
Fernando and Marisela
175
3
Bruce Berger
A Voice for the Lonely
178
5
Stephen Corey
Museum Piece
183
2
David Huddle
An End to the Still Lifes
185
6
Carol Bly
Three Fragments
191
2
Charles Simic
Inheritance
193
1
Denise Levertov
Modern Times
194
4
Lawrence Weschler
Nostalgia for Everything
198
2
Andrei Codrescu
On the Way Home
200
1
Carol Burelbach
Falling Stars
201
2
Gerry Sharp
Three Yards
203
3
Michael Dorris
The Tree Beyond Imagining
206
4
Reg Saner
December Meditation at Camp Polk Cemetery
210
5
Kim R. Stafford
Notes Toward Identifying a Body
215
4
John D'Agata
A Match to the Heart
219
2
Gretel Ehrlich
Rain
221
2
Kathleen Norris
Proud Flesh
223
4
Vicki Lindner
April 15
227
2
Teresa Jordan
Walking
229
4
Linda Hogan
Into the Storm
233
4
Jerry Ellis
I Crazy Horse
237
2
Ian Frazier
Nacoochee Indian Mound: Helen, Georgia
239
2
Steven Harvey
The Stories Tell the Land
241
3
Deborah Tall
Sanctuary
244
3
Jane Moress Schuster
Buckeye
247
4
Scott Russell Sanders
August
251
2
Margaret B. Blackman
Stonehenge and the Louvre Were Cool
253
6
Carol Lucci Wisner
Winter
259
2
Larry Sill
Natural Edges
261
3
John Lane
Good Use for Bad Weather
264
4
Donald Hall
Greenhouse
268
2
Jane Brox
Nature's See-Saw
270
5
Edward Hoagland
Outside's Not What We Think
275
5
Marvin Bell
Falling
280
1
Art Homer
Grubby I
281
3
SueEllen Campbell
Children in the Woods
284
4
Barry Lopez
We Are Distracted
288
5
Michael Shay
One Human Hand
293
2
Li-Young Lee
Mute Dancers: How to Watch a Hummingbird
295
4
Diane Ackerman
Farder to Reache
299
2
Albert Goldbarth
The Fine Art of Sighing
301
4
Bernard Cooper
Biographical Notes
305
16
Permissions
321
8
Index
329