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The Living
(Italian) |
An American Childhood
(French) |
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
(French) |
For the Time Being
(French) |
Partial World Book Data
Tickets for a Prayer Wheel
(1974) (poems) |
Reprinted in: Vital Signs: Contemporary
American Poetry from the University Presses, (2 poems).
Barlow, Connie. "Songs That Science Gives Us."
Anima, (Spring, 1994). Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung (2 poems).
Individual poems reprinted many other elsewheres!
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
(1974) (nonfiction narrative) |
Book-of-the-Month Club, May, 1974. New York: Bantam,
1975. New York: Harper Colophon, 1985, 1988. Harper Perennial 25th-Anniversary
edition with author's intro, 1999. London: 1976. Amsterdam: 1978.
Stockholm: 1978. Tokyo: 1989. Paris: 1990, 1995. Berlin: 1996. Rome--sometime
in 90's I think. Japan, China, Korea— many others.
Parts printed separately before publication as essays in: Harper's,
August, 1973, October, 1973, February, 1974; The Atlantic,
November, 1973; The Living Wilderness, Autumn, 1973, Winter, 1973,
Spring, 1974; Prose, Spring, 1974. Anthologized mucho.
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Holy the Firm
(1977) (nonfiction narrative) |
Parts printed separately before publication in Harper's,
May 1976.
Anthologized often,in Gregory Wolfe, The New Religious Humanists,
1998; Amy Mandelelker & Elizabeth Powers, Pilgrim Souls, 1999;
John D'Agata, The Next Essay, 2003. Many other places.
I lost track.
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Living by Fiction
(1982)(non-fiction narrative) |
Parts printed separately before publication as essays
in Harper's, August, 1980; Massachusetts Review, Spring,
1982; Twentieth Century Literature, Spring, 1982.
Anthologized in The Norton Reader, 1988. Many other places.
I lost track.
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Teaching a Stone to Talk
(1982) (narrative essays) |
Parts printed separately before publication as essays
in The Living Wilderness, Summer 1974, Winter 1974-1975,
Spring, 1975; The Atlantic Monthly, February 1981; Harper's,
May, 1975, October, 1975, December, 1977; Potomac, December 21,
1975; Antaeus, Spring/Summer, 1982; Yale Literary Magazine,
June, 1982.
"Total Eclipse" on Audio Prose Library, American Prose
Series (radio tapes).
The Weasel -- a fancy chapbook (from Teaching a Stone to
Talk) Rara Avis Press, 1981 (limited edition). Many other
places. I lost track.
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Encounters with Chinese Writers
(1984) (nonfiction narrative) |
Parts printed separately before publication as
essays in Harvard Magazine, July-August, 1983; Radcliffe
Quarterly, September, 1983; and as a small excerpt in Harper's,
September, 1984. Anthologized in The Road Within, edited
by three brothers named O'Reilly (San Francisco, 1997) and likely
elsewhere. Many other places. I lost track.
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An American Childhood
(1987)(memoir) |
Parts printed separately before publication as essays
in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times
Book Review, PEN Newsletter, ERATO (Harvard
Poetry Room), Books and Religion (Winter, 1988), Literary
Cavalcade (December, 1987), Pittsburgh Press Magazine,
Hartford Courant's Northeast Magazine, American Heritage
Anthologized often, including 75 pages in Living with the Past,
Great Books Foundation, with 9 other writers including Freud, Wordsworth,
Garcia Marquez, Proust; The Norton Book of American Biography;
quotation on gate to Seattle Mariners' stadium, 1999; Women
Writers on Baseball, and other weird places and normal places.
Many other places. I lost track.
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The Writing Life
(1989) (non-fiction narrative) |
Parts reprinted separately before publication as
essays in Tikkun Vol. 3, No.6 (Nov./Dec., 1988); Esquire
Vol. III No. 1 (January, 1989); The New York Times Book Review
(May 28, 1989); Writing and Well-Being: TriQuarterly 75
(Spring/summer, 1989); Boston Review (August, 1989); Ploughshares:
The Virtue of Writing (Vol. 15, Nos. 2 and 3); The Writer
(November, 1989); Lettre internationale (Automne 89); Boston
Monthly, August 89. Anthologized: "The Stunt Pilot"
in Best American Essays, 1990, edited by Justin Kaplan
and Robert Atwan, and in Thinking in Writing, 1998, ed.
Donald McQuade and Robert Atwan, and in other many other places.
I lost track.
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The Living
(1992) (novel) |
Parts printed separately before publication in Elvis
in Oz, an anthology, and Harper's ("The Living,"
November, 1978, and "A Trip to the Mountains," August,
1991). Many other places. I lost track.
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Mornings Like This
(1995) (poems) |
Parts anthologized in Charles Talkoff, ed. The
Troubador: A Journal of International Writing, Vol I, Fall,
1995; in Scott Cairns and W. Scott Olsen, The Sacred Place;
and in Impasto; Upholding Mystery, Oxford, 1997.
Many other places. I lost track.
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For the Time Being
(1999) (non-fiction narrative)
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Quoted in Foreign Policy web exclusive,
Paul Slovic, March 2007. Quoted in DECISION RESEARCH from
University of East Anglia July 14, 2005, Honorary Doctorate address
by Paul Slovic. Parts printed separately (occasionally under bizarre
titles)before publication in Ontario Review, Harper's Magazine,
Paris Review, News from the Republic of Letters, Notre Dame, Northeast,
Raritan and broadcast in altered form on NPR Morning Edition
about a month after the 2004 Christmas tsunami.Many other places.
I lost track. |
Musical Compositions, Art Exhibits, and Plays
Sir Michael Tippett, "The Mask of Time," symphony commissioned
for Boston Symphony, for Boston Centennial, Text partially from Pilgrim
at Tinker Creek. (Also recorded.) April 5, 1984.
Atlanta's Imaginary Theater, Holy the Firm, a 5-act play.
Triptych Productions and Small Change Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada:
The Unquiet Bestiary, August 91. Adaptations from Teaching
a Stone to Talk and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
(unlikely) theatre: Mannie Manim Productions performed 5 narratives from
Teaching a Stone to Talk at National Arts Festival in Grahamstown,
South Africa
World Bank Choral Society, composition by Peter P. Pease. "Feast
Days: Thanksgiving - Christmas," a choral celebration with orchestra.
Text from poem of that name from Tickets for a Prayer Wheel.
December 12, 13, 1989.
Masterworks Choral Ensemble. a composition by Liz Kennedy for Washington
Centennial Celebration, Olympus, Washington, October, 1989. Text based
on Holy the Firm.
Ram Island Theatre Company, Pentimento, choreographed by Daniel
McCusker, text from an essay in Teaching a Stone
"An Expedition to the Pole" (from Teaching a Stone to Talk)
adapted for the stage with orchestration by Gwyneth Walker, Gwyneth Walker
Musical Productions, published by E.C. Schirmer Music Co., New York, 1990.
Jim Boros, composer. "Bivouac" (from poem of that title), performed
April, 1992, by the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, at Merkin
Concert Hall in Manhattan, and also at at SUNY Stony Brook.
Sally Heron, artist. Exhibition based on The Writing Life, HarperCollins
Gallery, New York, 1992.
Mannie Manim Productions, Johannesburg, S. Africa, Civic Theatre, May:
dramatization of 5 essays from Teaching a Stone to Talk.
Peter Adams, "Anthem" for Cathedral Choir on text from Holy
the Firm (Birmingham, Ala)
James Harley, "Tyee," a duo for bass flute and percussion--
January 96, Toronto; "flung loose into the stars," February,
96, Toronto. Both from The Living.
Dan Welcher, composer. International Viola Congress, "Tickets for
a Prayer Wheel" --based on my poem of that name, a work for baritone
voice and solo viola. 1972.
"Words to an Organ Grinder's Music," in Vox Femina
for soprano and 5 players, 1985
"Firewing: The Flame and the Moth" for oboe and percussion,
1987
David Evan Thomas, "An Epistemology of Planets" (poem) used
as the text of "What We Know about Planets" Eastman School of
Music, Rochester, NY, May, 1999 premiere
"Holy the Firm," composition based on my book of that title
written (?) or performed(?) by Primosch for Chamber Music Northwest may
99
"Holy the Firm," subtitle composition for cello and orhestra
by Jake Heggie, premiere Oakland, CA Nov 15, '02.
Jenny Holzer, installation "For Pittsburgh," the entire book
An American Childhood along with a John Edgar Wideman novel,
in David L. Lawrence Convention Center, 2005.
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