by the same author
Rhetoric and Writing
Rhetoric: A Synthesis
The Contemporary Writer
Composition/Rhetoric: A Synthesis
The Rhetoric of the “Other” Literature
The Culture and Politics of Literacy
A Teacher’s Introduction to Composition in the Rhetorical Tradition
The English Department: An Institutional and Personal History
Searching for Faith: A Skeptic’s Journey
The Uses of Grammar (with Judith Rodby)
Senior Citizens Writing
attitudes
selected prose and poetry
W. Ross Winterowd
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Winterowd, W. Ross.
Attitudes : selected prose and poetry / W. Ross Winterowd.
p. cm.
Includes essays, poems, and a novella.
ISBN 978-1-60235-150-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-151-6 (adobe ebook)
I. Title.
PS3573.I5386A9 2010
818’.54--dc22
2010007937
Printed on acid-free paper.
Cover design by David Blakesley
Word cloud courtesy of http://www.wordle.net. Used by permission.
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For Marj--to the end of the journey
Contents
The Unspeakable and the Unsayable
Insomniac Rhapsody on Vitalism
Writing Theorists Writing: Life Studies
The Seasons: Four Prose Lyrics
Part II. Poems
The Jaded Compositionist Meditates on His Calling During an Attack of Influenza
Meditation at a Scholarly Conference
Eudora (on having read One Writer’s Beginnings, by another Eudora)