The collection gathers together the work of a number of scholars, poets, and teachers on the challenges and productive possibilities that arise when teaching contemporary writing today.

In a masterful blending of lyric and narrative, Sea of Faith ranges across interior states and external worlds.

Including the views of professors representing a variety of disciplines - from animal science to political science, anthropology to philosophy, romance studies to neurobiology - this collection will serve as a resource for anyone interested ...

"--Richard Terdiman, University of California, Santa Cruz "Every chapter in this book is at once richly informative from a cultural and historical point of view and the purveyor of close textual readings that are as convincing as they are ...

A variety of issues are addressed in the following chapters: "The Marginalization of Poetry," "Language Writing and Literary History," "Here and Now on Paper," "Parataxis and Narrative: The New Sentence in Theory and Practice," "Write the ...

This book describes and explains the fundamental changes that are now taking place in the most traditional areas of humanities theory and method, scholarship and education.