includes, along with the original walker evans photographs (beautifully reproduced by the way .. i was concerned) 'let us know praise famous men' ... and also 'a death in the family', and some additional short fiction.

the short essay, 'knoxville: summer 1915', that is usually a preface to the posthumously published 'a death in the family' takes my breath away with its carefully observed love and humor and human caring .. family and feelings and the awesomeness of life and death. this is one of my favorite lines of literature, the first line of this essay "We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child."

Let that roll around in your noggin for a while .. then come to this volume for more.