A Writer's Country: A Collection of Fiction and Poetry

by Jeffrey Knorr, Tim Schell

Compiled by the editors of the award-winning "Clackamas Literary Review, " this anthology of twenty short stories and fifty poems gives readers the opportunity to read from a broad range of styles, perspectives, and generations spanning the last century. The anthology is "not" separated by genre, as are most literature anthologies available today (but rather loosely co-mingles poems and stories according to gradually developing themes); and places canonized writing, and some lesser known yet accomplished writing, together under the same cover. Includes Writer biographies. Features works by James Joyce, Alice Munro, Alice Walker, Gracey Paley, Tim O'Brien, Jamaica Kincaid, Bobbie Ann Mason, William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Cheever, Raymond Carver, Melissa Pritchard, Jorge Luis Borges, John Wolff, Ernest Hemingway, Anton Chekhov, Carolyn Forche, Flannery O'Connor, Mary Robinson, Gary Soto, Sharon Olds, Joy Hado, Rohert Hayden, Gary Thompson, Wiliam Stafford, Walt McDonald, Alberto Rios, Theodore Roethke, Marilynne Chin, Gary Snyder, Linda Hogan, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Anne Sexton, Daisy Zamora, Lucille Clifton, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Dobyns, Octavio Paz, James Haggard, Lanston Hughes, Rita Dove, Carolyn Kizer, Naomi Shihab Nye, Donald Hall, Jimmy Santiago Boca, Maya Angelou, Claribe Alegria, Elizabeth Bishop, James Dickey, Richard Hugo, Denise Levertov, Mary Oliver, James Wright, Jim Harrison, Robert Frost. For anyone interested in Twentieth-Century short stories or poems or Creative Writing (fiction and poetry).

336 pages, Paperback

First published August 10, 2000

Reviews

[Daniel Behn · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fine collection. Short stories interspersed with poetry made for cozy lectures before bedtime.
Favorite short story writers:
Alice Munro
Alice Walker
Ron Carlson
John Cheever
Flannery O'Connor

Favorite poems:
Sharon Olds- Rite of Passage
Joy Harjo - Remember
Robert Hayden - Those Winter Days
Langston Hughes - The Weary Blues
Carolyn Kizer - Bitch
Claribel A. Ortega - Documentary
Robert Frost - Birches


"Words are our weakest hold on the world."
"(T)o own only a little talent...was an awful, plaguing thing; that being only a little special meant you expected too much, most of the time and liked yourself too little." Mary Robison

[Ada · Rating 4 out of 5]

Has some lovely classics, but also some new authors. For the most part the stories and poems were a delight, but sometimes the variety lost me.