The Best American Essays 2009

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ISBN: 9780618982721 | 0618982728
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 10/8/2009

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The Best American Essays 2009 offers up the best pieces of the year selected and introduced by Mary Oliver, author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning collection American Primitive and the National Book Award-winning New and Selected Poems.

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Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. xv
Taking a Reading: from Mid-American Review	p. 1
(En)trance: from The Literary Review	p. 3
Portrait of a Masked Man: from Harper's Magazine	p. 17
Faustian Economics: from Harper's Magazine	p. 26
The Greatest Nature Essay Ever: from Orion	p. 37
Cherish This Ecstasy: from The Sun	p. 39
The Dark Art of Description: from The Iowa Review	p. 43
And Such Small Deer: from Lapham's Quarterly	p. 53
Our Vanishing Night: from National Geographic	p. 63
You Be the Moon: from A Public Space	p. 67
The Mansion: A Subprime Parable: from Conde Nast Portfolio	p. 73
Madre de Dios: from Portland	p. 87
Faint Music: from Harvard Review	p. 94
Cuss Time: from The American Scholar	p. 105
Dog Is Our Copilot: from Ecotone	p. 110
Return to Hayneville: from The Virginia Quarterly Review	p. 125
Ghost Writers: from PEN America	p. 140
The God of the Desert: from Harper's Magazine	p. 144
Shipwrecked: from The American Scholar	p. 165
The Writer in Winter: from AARP Magazine	p. 172
First: from The Gettysburg Review	p. 177
The Mechanics of Being: from The Missouri Review	p. 181
Contributors' Notes	p. 188
Notable Essays of 2008	p. 194
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