I thought the projects where well done. They had lots of information about their topic, and always had supporting facts. The projects had lots of pictures as examples of the deformations and such. They had examples of real people, or history facts that stated what they where talking about. The projects where visually animated, which made them interesting to watch. Every topic was clear and very well explained. Some projects had compressions like the one about Freak shows; it had a section about the 19th century freaks and today's freaks. The project about the deformation diseases had examples of different diseases which caused the deformations. I thought all the projects where well made and presented, which taught me a lot.

Last he got the DMP and poured it on Stress. Stress thanked him and set off. Stress' goal was to steal the King Steven Mills' ice cream. The guards of Dumboland were pretty dumb. Stress went right through them. When he finally got to the king, about 257 soldiers were there. King Mills' shouted, “Attack!!!!!!!” Then all of them charged at him but got injured of Stress' ugly face. “OK! I give! What do you want?” asked the king. “I want your, ice cream!” replied Stress. “NOOOOO!!!! Anything but that!” screamed the king in horror. “Then you shall watch, Boo bah! Mwuhahahahaha!” replied Stress. Suddenly, Alex came in the room with a jet pack and stole the ice cream! “Noooooooo!” shouted the king and Stress. “Mwuhahaha!” Alex said as he flew off with his jetpack. Everyone lived happily ever after without watching Boo bah, but still no ice cream!

A tall man standing in a classroom:

“Are you or a loved one addicted to video games, always getting fearful grades on that impossible to study for history test”

Boy: (looking up at the man with a puzzled look on his face) “yes”

Man:(chuckling to himself) Well then do we have the thing for you, you see son the boys down at the “Study4Kids” lab have invented a little thing called “The Study Game V2”.

Boy: (now looking bewildered at the tall man) The Study Game V2 what on earth is that!

Man: Why I'll show you. (pulling a little hand-held game machine from behind his back)

Boy: Wooooah!

Man: Here I'll show you how it works, (pulling a history textbook out of the boy's desk) ok watch as I give you a demonstration of this marvelous little machine. Let me give you the break down of it all on how it works place the textbook on your desk like so (man places textbook on the boys desk) then put The “Study Game V2” on top of your textbook, now the tricky part (laughing saying “only joking it's very very easy) turn it on the screen will display all the chapters and you can highlight which one you want to study. The “Study Game V2” will ask you some question about what kind of game you enjoy Action, Adventure, Fantasy EST. The “Study Game V2” will then make the chapter that you have to study into a fun video game, it's that easy!

Boy: Holy! (Looking amazed) but what if people think I'm not smart because I have this?

Man: Fear not because we know you are smart and just need a way to study and if someone thinks you are not smart just show them that 100% you got on that history test.

Boy: (now smiling) where can I get one.

Man: (smiling to) wait wait there is more to tell you, studies have proven that more then 60% of your average grade will go up thanks to The “Study Game V2”

Boy: Ummm now can you tell me where I get one?

Man: Of course you can pick yours up today at any of these fin retailers for just 39.99 (a list of major stores such as Wal-Mart scrolls down the screen) but act quick because prices go up at the end of the month and their selling out almost everywhere.

Boy: Uhhh I got to go.

Man: (Chuckling) Be quick remember they are selling out almost everywhere.

In "Doe Season", Andrea wants to become accepted in the all-male group she hangs out with. Yet, she feels alienated and lonely because she seems to be the odd one out in the group. This alienation is noticeable at the start of the story when she expresses her dislike for Mac. Mac teases and pulls pranks on her. She believes Mac is stupid. This shows Andrea's feminine side which she tries hard to conceal.

Another instance in "Doe Season" when Andrea feels alienated was the men are talking about deer. She comments that she sees a deer behind their house. Charlie Spoon reasons it is because deer instinctively know when the hunting season is. Then they all laugh about which makes Andrea confused. The whole conversation about deer makes her feel out of place.

The primary concept of the story revolves around Andrea's relationship with his father. Andy wants to please her father. Her father takes her to a hunting trip to test if she can be a part of the man's world. Her father asks her to shoot a deer and then made her watch as he and Charlie Spoon gut the deer. At the cost of displeasing her father, Andy could not deny the fact that she has to remain true to her identity. She chooses to be true to herself in the end as symbolized by running away from the assembly of men gutting the deer.

In "Doe Season", there are a number of symbolisms such as the sea and the forest. When Andy talks of the sea and how it reminds her of mother's love for it, she admits hating it which is one clue that she does not want to be associated with femininity of any kind. The sea symbolizes womanhood and the forest symbolizes manhood. Andy expresses extreme dislike for the sea and an interest of the woods. She never really likes the woods per se but is fascinated by it.

To show the contrast of how she feels about the sea and the forest, she sees the forest as deep and immense, while she refers to the sea as huge and empty. This implies that Andy sees the man's world as a impressive and fascinating while that of a woman's is meaningless and empty.

Doe Season ends with Andy watching “her father's knife sliced thickly from chest to bell to crotch” (354). When Andy's father begins to gut the deer, Andy has an epiphany. She realizes that, no matter how much she tries, she cannot become part of the male society. She then runs away from everyone. This gesture of turning her back and fleeing from her male companions shows that she finally accepts the fact that she is different from men. Unbeknownst to her, the transformation within her is already complete. Then she listens to the sound of the wind which aptly reminds her of the “terrible, now inevitable sea” (354). The sea now becomes inevitable, owing to the fact the she recognizes she can no longer deny her true identity. She turns from the woods. which suddenly became strange to her, to the calling ocean, heeding her real destiny- that of becoming a woman.

One characteristic that Nace shows during the ascent of Mount Kalpurtha is being cautious. Nace first shows his cautiousness when he decides to traverse under the ridge instead of going at it head on. He knows that it would be a lot safer for the whole group. Even though it might take longer, Nace knows that the route would be easier for everyone and that they would still have a fighting chance to reach the summit. Thus, taking the precaution shows that Nace is cautious about his surroundings. Another reason why Nace is cautious is when the snowstorms hit. Nace knows that, “'It's firm down here…because the sun hits it only two hours a day. Up above it gets the sun twelve hours. It may not have frozen yet.'”(102). Again, Nace shows he is experienced with the mountain by saying that it is not safe to be climbing right after a snowstorm because he probably has had encountered this during his previous expeditions. The most important example on how Nace is cautious is when Nace, Osborn, and Frank are within one day's worth of climbing to reach the summit. A snowstorm hits and Nace tells the two that, “'There's still too much loose snow above. We can't make it.'” (105), and that they would have to go back down to Camp V. Osborn is enraged by this action and heads off to the summit while the others were sleeping even though Nace told him not to. As a result, Nace sacrifices his life to save Osborn. This shows that Nace is cautious because if Osborn actually listened to Nace's precaution, none of the events that happened would have happened. By taking stock of the situation and realizing the dangers of snowstorms proves that Nace is cautious.

Another characteristic that Nace demonstrates is that he is caring. One way that Nace demonstrates this trait is when he decides to zigzag under the glacier instead of taking the ridge. This shows that he cares about the group by letting them take the safer and much easier route and the more difficult one. In a later conversation between Nace and Frank, Nace tells Frank that, “It [the ridge] can be done. Trouble is, when you've made it, you're too done in for the summit.” (101). This quote demonstrates how Nace cares about his fellow group mates and does not want them to make the same mistake that he did with his old friend Furness. This is one way Nace cared for the group. Another example on how Nace is caring is when he makes steps for them and the porters to step on during the ascent. This quote, “… the bright prong of his ax rising, falling, rising, falling with tireless rhythm, until the steps in the glassy incline were so wide and deep that the most clumsy of the porters could not have slipped from them had he tried.” (103), proves that Nace is caring for his group as well as the porters. He made the steps so wide and so deep that no one could have slipped even on purpose. This is another example on how Nace is caring. The last example of when Nace shows that he is caring is when he goes up to find Osborn, even though he disliked Osborn. Nace, Osborn, and Frank are at Camp VI, when a snowstorm hits. After a couple of days, Nace still thinks that climbing to the summit would be too dangerous and decides that they should go down and get more supplies before they try to reach the summit again. Osborn is outraged and tries to reach the summit when Nace and Frank are asleep. When Nace wakes up, he finds Osborn missing and decides to look for Osborn even though Osborn disobeyed him. So, even though there was a lot of tension between Nace and Osborn, Nace shows that he is caring by trying to look for Osborn. In conclusion, taking the safer route, digging out steps for the group, and helping Osborn all prove that Nace is caring.

The last and most important characteristic that Nace shows is the quality of being experienced. Because he unsuccessfully climbed the mountain 5 times, he has more knowledge and understanding of the mountain, hence, making him more experienced than the others. The text states, “Because of his far greater experience and intimate knowledge of K3, Randolph almost invariable followed his advice…” (100). This quote demonstrates that Nace's experience and his decisions help guide the expedition team toward the summit. Thus, using past knowledge of the mountain proves that Nace is more experienced than other group members. Another way Nace demonstrates his property of being experienced is when he is asked about the sleeping bags. Osborn, young and inexperienced, immediately wanted the sleeping bags out, while Nace, with his familiarity to this kind of situation, told Osborn and the rest of the men, “'Longer we wait for the bags, better acclimated we'll get.'” (98). Nace knows that it will be harder to breathe up at a higher elevation if they use the sleep bags then. So, with his knowledge and common sense on mountain climbing, Nace shows that he is experienced. The last example of how Nace is experienced is when they were going from Camp IV to Camp V.

One of the porters accidentally slipped while they are climbing the ridge to get to Camp V. Nace took control of the situation by creating a balance. They balanced each other out and continued to climb the ridge. Once they were out, Nace tried to comfort the men by letting them have a cup of tea. As a result, Nace's experience saved the party from disaster. All these events that led to Nace's death prove that Nace is more experienced than the rest of the flock.

In conclusion, people who read “Top Man” will notice that Nace is cautious, caring, and experienced. To recap, Nace demonstrates his cautiousness when climbing the mountain. He shows that he is caring by helping everyone out one way or another. Lastly, Nace proves that he is experienced when he faces difficult problems between nature and men in the story. In the end, sacrificing one's life for another rather than to reach the summit himself makes Nace the true “Top Man”.

The setting was at No Name, Colorado where Jamie Keegan's or Ace Keegan's step-father was killed and his mother was raped by Conor O'Shannessy at the bushes on a one cold night. And where the love begins between Caitlin and Ace.

Major Characters:

• Jamie Keegan: At the age of 11 he was called as Jamie but after how many years when his beloved step-father died he changed his name to Ace Keegan. He was a gambler, a very known and feared rich man in Colorado; most of the people have a fear on him for being a rugged man in black. He loves his wife Caitlin O'Shannessy very much. And ruggedly handsome man.
• Joseph Paxton: The step-father of Ace Keegan and treated Ace as his true son
• Caitlin O'Shannessy:- who feared Ace Keegan at the first because she had this bad impression to him that he might revenge to them his anger from her father. Married Ace in the unexpected time, and a beautiful lady.
• Patrick Keegan- a very drunkard son who forced Ace to marry Caitlin to cover up his sister's reputation
• Conor O'Shannessy: He is the father of Caitlin and Patrick, killed Ace's step-father and raped his mom

Plot:

Ace Keegan returned to No Name, Colorado to have revenge to Conor but when he heard that he is already dead, he had no intentions to shift his revenge from the father to the children…Patrick wants to fight with Ace but he doesn't want to fight a 19 year old man, in order for Ace to be angry with him, he killed his valued bull on a gun. So normally Ace would be angry, he brought Patrick into Caitlin's house and tied his head on the wagon. But instead of killing Patrick, Caitlin begs for forgiveness and willing to pay the thing her brother had ruined. (On that time when Conor was dead, Caitlin and Patrick were quite poor and they only had a small farm, a barn and a few animals in order for them to live.) So Ace didn't kill his brother.

The Character I Liked Most:

The character I liked most is Ace Keegan because even though he had anger from the father, he has still his good principle that never put revenge or anger unto the others and because he has a good heart inside, a gentleman, And has a very true love to Caitlin.

The Scene That Touched Most:

The scene that touched most is when Caitlin paid 88.95 dollars through mail to Ace as a partial payment for the bull of a total cost of 8000 dollars, even if Caitlin doesn't have enough money to pay. But still Ace has a kind heart to Caitlin so he tries to explain everything and returned the money to her.

Resolution:

My resolution in this story is that never put an anger to your heart, but even though you cannot help it if you are in the situation, just put love on your heart but not hatred, and anger. Love can heal.

The main character of this story is an old man named Santiago, and the other two main characters are the boy who is Santiago's friend, and the huge fish Santiago catches. In the beginning of the story the old man hasn't caught a good fish in eighty-five days and the only thing keeping him alive is the young boy who is his one true friend. The old man never loses faith that there is a big fish out there for him and he just has to keep fishing enough to catch it.

During most of the story Santiago goes out in his boat and hooks a huge fish and is being carried by it. The only companion Santiago has is his mind and the fish he is trying to kill. Probably the only thing that kept the old man going was thinking of his hero De Maggio the baseball player. Whenever Santiago was getting to the point of give up he always thought about if De Maggio would and that would make him struggle on.

When Santiago finally catches his big fish he has to tie it to the side of the boat because it is larger than the boat itself! As Santiago finally starts his journey home he is satisfied but worried about the shark infested waters. When he enters the shark infested waters many sharks attack his fish and he does his best to kill them all but only gets a few. Eventually when he gets home his fish is ruined and gone.

All together this is one of the most intense and sad books I have read in a long time. It shows the thoughts you think instead of the actions you take in a situation. It shows the courage of an old man on his last string of life trying to achieve one more great thing.

In addition to not being well dressed, he only brought along one companion at his side. That one companion was a wolf dog which was incapable of saving the man's life if he came into danger. The dog was of no help to the man when he fell into the water and his legs and hands were freezing. The dog could not light a fire to save the man's life.

As well as having no useful companion, the man had just one mere piece of food. The only food that the man had was a biscuit wrapped in a handkerchief close to his chest where it froze anyway and he could not eat it. Therefore, the man in “To Build A Fire” could have survived in the Yukon if he had proper clothing, another person with him, and enough food to keep him alive.

The collection consists of 18 short poems, none of them written in verse, but mainly subdivided into stanzas of 3 lines each. There are only 5 exceptions to this rule, more precisely in "The God Fit" (p. 40), "The God Coup" (p. 41), "God's Beloveds Remain True" (p. 47), "God's Mother" (p. 48) and "God's List of Liquids" (p. 52). Both in "God's Mother" and "God's List of Liquids", the formal differences seem to hint on the idea of structure and order. Both poems contain a list, which could be interpreted as an allusion to God's habit to organise, to set up a framework or even a divine master plan. "The God Fit" ends in one single line, "The God Coup" is a four line poem and "God's Beloveds Remain True" is not subdivided into stanzas at all. The underlying connection between these three poems is the desperation that lies in feeling abandoned by God. People try "to escape God who is burning" (p. 40, l. 6) while they feel "untended" (p. 40, l. 7). He is described as "a grand heart cut" (p. 41, l. 1) and while "man surges" (p.41, l. 2), he does nothing more than "tarry" (p. 41, l. 4). In contrast to the descriptive address of "The God Fit" and "The God Coup", the voice of mankind expresses itself in "God's Beloveds Remain True", bewailing the status quo. The irony of feeling helpless and forsaken while "Chaos overshadows" (p. 47, l. 1) and not having the option to leave God behind because they "have been instructed to call this His love" (p. 47, l. 29) clarifies the forlorn position of God's beloveds. The term "beloveds" itself bears a sarcastic undertone when the speaker tells about them being "strangled by bitter light" (p. 47, l. 3), even "slit and drained out" (p. 47, l. 20). "The God Fit", "The God Coup" and "God's Beloveds Remain True" form a trilogy of misery, leading from God's infernal terror over God's indifference regarding mankind to God's tyrannical leave-no-options policy.

Another aspect of God is discussed in "God's Woman" (p. 46) and "God Stiff" (p. 46). These two poems ostensibly deal with the role of women in the process of creation. God asks "His woman" (p. 46, l. 1) whether she is "angry at nature" (p. 46, l. 1) without making clear what exactly he means by the term "nature".

The woman replies that she does "not want nature stuck / up between" (p. 46, l. 2f) her "legs on" (p. 46, l. 3) his "pink baton" (p. 46, l. 3). Furthermore, she does not want it "ladled out like geography whenever" (p. 46, l. 4) his "buckle needs a lick" (p. 46, l. 5). The image of God suddenly undergoes a change from supernatural fiend without a cause to a sexist male creator, who formed man after his image but forgot about the humiliating position of women in creation altogether. The idea of devising a reproduction process in which one (the male) has to penetrate the other (the female) in order to soil the female body with the actual semen and, thus, secure the species' population is portrayed as unnecessary and degrading. His possibly uttered excuse does not convince the woman of the necessity of the human spawning procedure and God is cornered with the question "what do you mean Creation" (p. 46, l. 6). This negative image is underlined in "God Stiff" by the fact that for the woman, "His zipper going down" (p. 46, l. 6) sounds like the word "Treachery" (p. 46, l. 6). If God really created man after his image, all negative and sexist behavior patterns of men must originate from God himself. He is part and root of all sexist male behavior.

The portrayal of God is completed in "God's Justice" (p. 49) when the reader is told that "in the beginning there were days set aside for various tasks" (p. 49, l. 1). One of those days was reserved for God to create justice, but instead "God got involved in making a dragonfly" (p. 49, l. 3). Watching his new creation, he "lost track of time" (p. 49, l. 4) and completely forgot about his actual plan to bring justice to the world. In deep fascination, God beholds the dragonfly, every little detail catches his eye and his attention. He is described as the stereotype human male who just found a new toy, be it some sort of electronic entertainment device or some other trivial matter. All his effort and all his devotion rests with something that can, objective, be seen as far less important than e.g. the concept of justice, yet there is no Sign of God being about to take notice of this antagonism. He is characterized as being rather unreliable, and assuming that there are at least 2 million[3] different species of animals on this planet to fascinate him, expectations for justice to be created are sure to be disappointed.

One intriguing fact is the textual connection between "God's Woman" and "God's List Of Liquids". In the latter, the list of liquids ends with the substantive "Time" (p. 52, l. 16). The context of this list is that "God had the book of life open at pleasure" (p. 52, l. 3) and was arranging terms under the headline "For I made their flesh as a sieve" (p. 52, l. 6). However, the noun "Time" also appears in "God's Woman" when God urges his woman to choose between "Fire. Time. Fire"

(p. 46, l. 8) Taking into account the contents of "God's Woman" and "God's List Of Liquids", it seems probable that God lets his woman choose between pleasure (the term "Time" appears on the page "PLEASURE" of God's book of life) and desolation (the desolation of fire when God "is burning" as on page 40, line 6 of the poem "The God Fit"). It remains uncertain what his woman chose, but the idea of both concepts having the potential to negatively alter the "flesh" (p. 52, l. 6) of man, one by burning, one by aging, leaves the conclusion that even the items considered as pleasure by God carry a foul side effect for his creation.

Carson describes God as not being compatible to the human nature. What God considers a pleasure is considered a curse by man. God is differently minded than we are, and due to this fact, he lost interest in us a long time ago. "Our blind gestures / parodied / what God really wanted" ("My Religion", p. 40, l. 27ff) and God reacted by retiring from his business of taking care and pursued his ambitions and hobbies such as creating more simple, but also more beautiful things such as dragonflies. What for us feels like God's anger or the impression that we were abandoned could just be the frustration and resignation of a God who created a being that is unable to conceive him. Carson appears to pity God and she intends to hold up her faith to support God until "all the people in the world" ("My Religion", p. 39, l. 8) find out just "how simple it would have been" ("My Religion", p. 39, l. 5) to give God "this simple thing" ("My Religion", p. 40, l. 32) that he really wanted. God is not there to help us, he needs our help until we have learned to see and listen, or as Carson says it "my religion makes no sense / and does not help me / therefore I pursue it" ("My Religion", p. 39, l. 1ff).

[1] Carson, Anne. Glass, Irony and God. Introduction by Guy Davenport. 1995. New York: New Directions. New Directions Paperbook, Fifth Printing. "The Truth about God", 39-53

[2] Carson, Anne. Glass, Irony and God. Introduction by Guy Davenport. 1995. New York: New Directions. New Directions Paperbook, Fifth Printing.

[3] Nisimov, Felix. The Physics Factbook. Edited by Glenn Elert. 2003. "Number of Species"

The first striking fact about the 31 poems contained in "Short Talks"[1] as it appears in Plainwater[2] is their length, they vary from one line (p. 31: "On Gertrude Stein About 9:30") to 20 lines (p. 42: "On The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Deyman") while the majority consists roughly of about 10 lines. The poems further lack rime which could be intended to put stress on the content of the poems rather than the language. The very brief appearance of the poems in question underlines and supports the image of the author walking through an exhibition of paintings, works of art, or, more abstract, feelings and thoughts, while cogitating one piece at a time, paying full attention to the thoughts and feelings, connotations and associativities that this particular item provokes, but in the end leaving the scenery to proceed to the next item in line. Another supportive argument for the theory of the poems being intended as captions is the choice of the title scheme, all titles begin with the preposition “On”, followed either by the title of a painting (p. 37: "On the Mona Lisa") or by an expression or topic the author might have associated with a particular piece of art (p. 31: "On Trout"). In this case, the phrase “piece of art” also implies the artistic work of thought and idea.

Carson's language is unique, her style of expressing emotions (p. 41, "On the Youth at Night": “Terrific lava shone on his soul.”) and her metaphors (p. 43, "On Orchids": “We live by tunneling for we are people buried alive.”) underline the sensual and deep sensations that can be evoked when losing yourself in devotion to paintings, music or comparable works of the human intellect. Therefore, the caption theory seems probable.

The reader is witness to the inner monologue of an imaginary character (p. 39, "On Rain": “It was blacker than olives the night I left.”), sometimes possibly of the author (p. 37, "On Walking Backwards": “My mother forbid us to walk backwards.”) and sometimes it stays completely out of focus where the origin of the thoughts lies (p. 31: "On Disappointments in Music"). This stylistic device enables the reader to take part in the imaginative and creative process that lies behind the poems, to identify with the individual who took the chance to express ideas regarding the variety of paintings, to think, rethink and maybe even think on where the author stopped.

Furthermore, the occasional mentioning of philosophers' or artists' names (p. 30, "On Chromoluminism": “Seurat - the old dazzler - has painted that place.”; p. 31: "On Gertrude Stein About 9:30"; p. 31, "On Disappointments in Music": “Prokofiev was ill ...”; p. 32: "On Ovid"; p. 32: "On Parmenides"; p. 34, "On the Rules of Perspective": “These are the views of Braque.”; p. 35, "On Rectification": “Kafka liked to have his watch an hour and a half fast.”; p. 36, "On Sleep Stones": “Camille Claudel lived the last thirty years of her life in an asylum ...”; p. 37, "On Waterproofing": “Franz Kafka was Jewish.”; p. 38, "On the End": “Rembrandt wakens you ...”; p. 38: "On Sylvia Plath"; p. 40, "On Charlotte": “Miss Bronte & Miss Emily & Miss Anne used to put away their sewing ...”; p. 42, "On The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Deyman": “One wonders if Elsje ever saw Rembrandt's painting, ...”; p. 43, "On Orchids": “... , writes Emily Dickinson in a letter ...”; p. 43, "On Penal Servitude": “Dostoevski went in ...”; p. 43: "On Hölderlin"s World Night Wound') stresses the image of diverse individual artistic pieces, but it also depicts one of the central possible arguments against the caption theory. When taking a closer look at the range of the names on record, we can count four distinct painters, but 12 artists of a different creative section (11 philosophers and writers, one composer). This leads to the conclusion that either the author has intentionally or subconsciously made a large associative link between a painting and other artistic fields or the caption theory is no longer valid for the loosely connected context of painting and caption.

The most hindering factor in finding a final solution and, thus, a final answer to the question whether the caption theory is probable or not is simply the absence of the original paintings. The objective of liberating the poems from their visual counterparts is intelligible, yet it leaves the reader not the option to take a look at the paintings as well or decide to blank them out when necessary; one could argue that the reader's freedom is restricted for the sake of the purity of literature.

For interpreting Carson's feelings, thoughts, connotations and viewpoints, for following her train of thought, for sympathizing with the ideas that obviously struck her while viewing certain paintings and for finding a deeper appreciation by seeking Carson's link between canvas, mind and word the display of the corresponding paintings would certainly be helpful, but for enjoying 'Short Talks' it is rather irrelevant. Assuming Carson's ability to build bridges across all boundaries of genre, style or variety, in the end it remains quite certain that the caption theory still finds support even in the present text format which lacks the original paintings. The overall feel and look (in a broader sense) of her collected poems tells us so.

References

[1] Carson, Anne. Plainwater. 1995. New York: Vintage Books. First Vintage Contemporary Edition, March 2000. "Short Talks“, 27-46

[2] Carson, Anne. Plainwater. 1995. New York: Vintage Books. First Vintage Contemporary Edition, March 2000