Contemporary Reader for Creative Writing

by Robert DeMaria Jr., Ellen H. Meyer

Contemporary Reader for Creative Writing

512 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 1993

About the author

Robert DeMaria, Jr. is the Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English at Vassar College. His main area of study is eighteenth-century British Literature and, in particular, Samuel Johnson.

Reviews

[Jillian · Rating 3 out of 5]

I can't say I learned much from the introductory/instructional sections - their observations were correct but rather basic, and some of them even detracted from the reading because they gave away aspects of stories that I would have preferred to read first. The story, poetry, and drama selections were a mixed bag, but on the whole it was a good collection. Some of my favorite stories were "Killing the Bees" (LS Schwartz), "Winter" (Kit Reed), "It's Time" (Michael Martone), "The Things They Carried" (O'Brien), "Love is not a Pie" (Amy Bloom), and "Sacred Heart" (Jennifer Egan). And for poetry: "Statues" (Lisel Mueller), "Anorexia" (Alice Jones), "Pajamas" (Sharon Olds), "March Orrery" (Richard Kenney), "Hieroglyphic" and "Winn's Blackbird" (Eamon Grennan), among many others.