The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present, Phillip Lopate games & puzzles First I remember the darkness

First I remember the darkness

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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present, Phillip Lopate games & puzzles First I remember the darknessFor more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self disclosure, the personal essay seizes on the minutiae of daily life vanities, fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals, love and disappointment, the pleasures of solitude, reading, taking