Perspectives: Uncollected Essays

This book of hybrid of memoir and essay is a tour de force in breadth as well as depth, this his essayistic memoir is all about lived life, of perspectives on the present, on the past: Of place, purpose, and experience. Of professional life, of university teaching. Of the writing life. Of the prestigious literary magazine-Ploughshares. On its start-up. Of the nature of literature. Of writer friends. Of famous writer friends. On the reality of being human. On aging. On religious and philosop...