Table of Contents

Author's Note on Names and Language Introduction: The Road to Dialogue 1. A Simple Invitation 2. History Becomes Real 3. Interlude: Fall-Winter 1996-1997 4. A Second Course, A Second Inquiry 5. Whipped by the Wind 6. Interlude: Winter-Spring 1997 7. A Dialogue in Letters 8. Unexpected Lessons 9. Uncommon Ground 10. The Question of Forgiveness 11. When the Wind Whispers Epilogue: On American Soil Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography

About the Author

Sondra Perl is Professor of English and Urban Education at Lehman College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of Felt Sense: Writing with the Body and coauthor (with Nancy Wilson) of Through Teachers' Eyes: Portraits of Writing Teachers at Work and editor of Landmark Essays on Writing Process. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching selected Professor Perl as the 1996 New York State Professor of the Year.