After the Bell - Contemporary American Prose About School

Zusammenfassung Including sixty-two short essays! this work describes in many voices the emotional complexity and historical record of one experience most of us have in common: elementary and secondary school! from our first day all the way to graduation twelve years later. Informationen zum Autor Maggie Anderson is professor of English at Kent State University! where she directs the Wick Poetry Center and the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program. She is the author of five books of poetry! including Windfall: New and Selected Poems! and the coeditor of A Gathering of Poets. David Hassler is the program and outreach director for the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University; he conducts writing workshops throughout northeast Ohio. He is the author of two books of poems! most recently Red Kimono! Yellow Barn! for which he was named the 2006 Ohio Poet of the Year. He is the coeditor of A Place to Grow: Voices and Images of Urban Gardeners and! with photographer Gary Harwood! the author of Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community. After the Bell is the prose companion to Anderson and Hassler's poetry anthology Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School (IOWA 1999). Klappentext The sixty-two essays in "After the Bel"l describe in many voices the emotional complexity and historical record of one experience most of us have in common: elementary and secondary school! from our first day all the way to graduation twelve years later. Whether public or private! rural or urban! school is the first place we navigate on our own! learning how we stand apart! how we stand out! and where we do- or don't - fit in.

Product details

• Authors: Maggie (EDT)/ Hassler Anderson
• Assisted by: Maggie Anderson (Editor), Maggie P. Anderson (Editor), David Hassler (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2007
• EAN: 9781587296031
• ISBN: 978-1-58729-603-1
• No. of pages: 183
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries