Portrait inside my head : essays / Phillip Lopate.
Material type: TextDescription: 292 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781451696301 (pbk.)
- 814.54 23
Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Indu Prasad | Gulbanoo Premji Library, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru | 3rd Floor | IP 814.54 LOP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | G16066 |
In defense of the miscellaneous essay collection --
The family romance. Tea at the Plaza ; The camera shop ; The Countess's tutor ; My brother the radio host ; Wife or sister? ; The limits of empathy ; The lake of suffering --
The consolations of daily life. Memoirs of a wishy-washy Left-liberal ; Why I remain a baseball fan ; Novels and films ; On changing one's mind about a movie ; Laws of attraction ; Duration, or, Going long ; Warren Sonbert --
City spaces. Brooklyn the unknowable ; Robert Moses rethought ; City Hall and its park ; Walking the high line ; Getting the South wrong --
Literary matters. "Howl" and me ; The poetry years ; The stubborn art of Charles Reznikoff ; the improbable moralist ; James Agee ; On not reading Thomas Bernhard ; Worldliness and regret --
The life of the mind.
Presents a collection of essays on a life well-lived, sharing provocative observations on topics ranging from the challenges of a Brooklyn childhood and the pleasures of baseball to movies and friendship.
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