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Twilight innings : a West Texan on grace and survival

"Linked thematically and by recurring motifs, these essays explore perishing and available means of grace--faith, love, friendship, work, and joy. For Fink, work is his craft--poetry--and teaching writing and literature. He finds joy in running; in the beauty, order, and grace of baseball; and in laughter"--Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, ©2006
Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, ©2006
Anecdotes
xvi, 152 pages ; 24 cm
9780896725843, 0896725847
64289067
Faith training
Three Texas barber shops
Called to poetry, Abilene
Elegy for the living
Ghosts
My Vietnam memory
Rescue the perishing
The schizophrenic creative writing teacher
300 hitters take time to develop
Notebook entries : George Newman's Guadalupe Mts. field trip, October 1984
Twenty years teaching creative writing
What value in suffering?
Love : an onlooker's view
High school reunion
Living with the Outstanding Elementary School Counselor of the Year
Prairie dogs baseball : the great Abilenian pastime
At forty-nine
"Have a Coke and a smile"
Sunday will never be the same
Heart of the order
My father, who played baseball
How I found religion at a baseball game
The tall boy : a requiem
What forgiveness?