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Anthology of American Literature
Tenth Edition
Volume II
Longman
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General Editors George McMichael ' '
• •' -'California State University,'Hayward 1 »'
•James S. Leonard The Citadel
Advisory Editors Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Stanford University '1
David Bradley University of Oregon
Dana D. Nelson Vanderbilt University
Joseph Csicsila . Eastern Michigan University
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Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco UppersSaddle Rivei Amsterdam' Xape'Towrr^'Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich fPans v MontrealcAToronto
' Delhi 'i - Mexico :Citytf < Sao Paulo'* * Sydney 5-•'Hong-Kong.'v Seoul Singapore... .Taipei Tokyo... :<..
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Preface ;i,.- xxvii
About the Editors xxx ^ . -£;:T I .1 .V '
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The Literature of the Late Nineteenth Century < 1
Reading the Historical Context 12
MARK TWAIN (SAMUEL L. CLEMENS) (1835-1910) " 12
FROM Life on the Mississippi ,.r>t: t: >•••'• 12 [Sir Walter Scott and the Southern Character] , , : • .12
ALBION TOURGEE (1838-1905) , ^ > 15
FROM The Invisible Empire '' > - • • JG
Reading the Critical Context '* 22
WILLIAM DKAN HOWKLKS (1837-1920) S ; • 22
FROM Criticism and Fiction, , .... , : u-., , 22 [The Ideal Grasshopper] > 22
, [American Fiction] ,. | s,; 26
HENRY JAMES (1843-1916) 30
The Art of Fiction ' - ' 30
MARK TWAIN (SAMUELL. CLEMENS) (1835-1910) 44
Fenimore Cooper s Literary Offences • 1.")
Literature of the Late Nineteenth Century 54
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) , ^ 54 ' '' •. I - . - •- j { '1 ],.i '• i • ^
Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass' \ 56 Song of Myself (From the 1891 Edition of Leaves of (Jrass)' .71 FROM Inscriptions ' *"T ' ?' 118 <• ! ... .. ' • ' ... ai«r,i" . -' • ,, , To You,,,. ,)v : ^ . ..... 118
One's-Self I Sine ' ' " 118 if.* i • ° • . ' -i;s i - !
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When I Read the Book ^ ^ 118 I Hear J? 118 Poets to Come , _ 119
FROM . . Children of Adam 119 From Pent-up Aching Rivers 119 Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd 121
' As Adam, Early in the Morning Once I Pass'd Through(a Populous City 121
FROM Calamus- • irK; ! •. "... S'lOt&ii What Think You ITake My Pen In Hand? 122 I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing 122
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry .. FROM Sea-Drift , 5 : 128
^ r u r- j, T7 ji i -[5 i • U~>huks wv.wutwm piMy^yx Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking i2o FROM By the Roadside - ' ,,)iC f ^ js;jwaS) v^wT
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer ...... 132 i: The Dalliance of the Eagles •• SN; , < • > ALL J M<1>33 FROM -Drum-Taps bstoinrtrP >uJ bar. •••!;«# J 133
Beat! Beat! Drums! 133 <•', Cavalry Crossing a Ford i
Bivouac on a Mountain Side. , '-^kiina ^tt-vjrri i,ill ' IfM Vigil Strange I Kept on the'Field One Night 134
, A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and^Dhn, > ; ,n^VQ »*> The Wound-Dresser 136
t s As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap^amei£dq.LL,,rwoH
FROM Memories of President Lincoln 138 When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd3 >!'s t. mrfbuiO T38
FROM Autumn Rivulets . <i -jbi *?ttjp,145 f!- There Was a Child Went Forth • ifi^u >t:t 145
Sparkles from the Wheel - . !ihi 1 146 Passage to India • FROM Whispers of Heavenly Death . , , m.ijnrnnnA <;155
A Noiseless Patient Spider 155 FROM From Noon to Starry IViglit-2C8ii HIAVST IL.IL55
To a Locomotive in Winter ... .155 (\i- „ . ' aawrttO .TrolU FROM Democratic Vistas lob
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EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886) FMJ-C.V!)
49 I never lost as much but twice. .. . ; , .,178 no •««»••». i lo ivsuib.l ccdt -JO) OJ A-WNYIL
67 - Success is counted sweetest, , 1/9 IV , foe»ftvJ JO .'Mi •srit moil; Us^m* 165 A Wounded Deer—leaps highest , 1 /» >• • • . * • . r ° ?no/ion:v.r;; MMJA 185,' • ; "Faith is a fine invention ^ I /•> 210 The thought beneath so slight a film _ „ V'*• -A • < 214 I taste a liquor never brewed 180
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216 - Safe in their Alabaster Chambers c-jrtJ it£<I n< ujjini •2,41 I like a (look of Agonyus-i ) ; i; r r , j , •*«>"/ ->t : i r . iof i H.;-" 249 Wild Nights—Wild Nights! 258 There's a certain Slant of light 280 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain •-;?< j -AMssasfi < 303 The Soul selects her own Society 324 Some keep the Sabbath going to Church ' " V 328 A Bird came down the Walk 338 I know that He exists ,, ,, 341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes 401 : What Soft—rCherubic Creatures 435 Much Madness is divinest Sense 441 This is my letter to the World 449 I died for Beauty—but was scarce - 3;) ;> /or,-. 465 I heard a Fly buzz—when I died 520 I started Early—Took my Dog 585 I like to see it lap the Miles , ^ ^ , r
632 The Brain—is wider than the sky ' " 1
640 I cannot live with You i-L) 670 One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted . ; ->709 Publication—is the Auction • i s '; q> i n 712 Because I could not stop for Death 764 Presentiment—is that long Shadow—on tint Lawn i >; 976 Death is a Dialogue between. , 986 A narrow Fellow in the Grass 1052 I never saw a Moor J''' ' ' 1078 The Bustle in a House t
ii.29. Tell all the truth but tell it slant 1 J' * >; 1207 He preached upon "Breadth" till it argued him narrow 1463 A Route , of Evanescence 1545 The Bible is an antique Volume •*? Sbi'M. J 1624 Apparently with no surprise . I (>70 In Winter in my Room 1732 My life closed twice before its close 1755 To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee ' 1760; Elysium is as far as to Letters to T. W. Higginson , . , :
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The Notorious Jumping, Frog of Calaveras County Story of the Bad Little Boy v 1 1 { '\<2 k > •/ ; c..- }i\ / Disgraceful,Persecution of a Boy Sociable Jimmy o u •{;»qt,rtoJ»>W y/olh'l f21'0 AvTrue Story, Repeated Word-for-Word as I Heard It r-*>M n m 1/212 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn s i;o? bnu it:uii I ?216 My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It 394
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T6!the Person Sitting in:Darkness jrredmerO isi'^dslA j ni a&i# >399 A'Salutation-Speech from the Nineteenth Century. toethe Twentieth I 409 The War-Prayer, * b/rtgiH hliW—&ntyjVi I>(rW '4<10 1*8!_ • . j <»f ,1UBI£ rjiwts'J K SI'TWIT MARYE. WiLKiNsIFREEMAN.(1852-1930) NUNS vx« ni JFN^RTUL A JH'L I 412
k^New England'Nun ' • • v*-- } ^.'13 ^Mistaken'Charity ; igl <Xi . !;i(/ • i r.. .. -ii .-It tt! K«W.t 3tlUTS Jyifd A 'OS'. £?•£• _ '.-I- Tv -• ,-.OAn itigixa t>H Jurli -.voruf! SARAH ORNE TEWETT (1849-1909) . , , - , 429 WJ, U'>JT ' •!•.; ;i. > ?,0n:fi3:prmife»lti9CWX^T f; -Uiljq TOJtft. ijffc i^SWhite'.Heron* : . > L- . ^stsissv) uidm-sff.") /k>2 JsrfV/ 430 The Town Poor . t • 'h;:-rb«M ft'3/7 ; > 8 I - • h h o W s H t o ; v i e : ? . i u < i T GEORGE-WASHINGTON CABLE (1844-1925)? ?.M NS<I—--RMH'>N ML J>A»B I 444 'V'' . , • ; ' V-><" ' -haih'j.-siodw-—TMid yli ti !-f>•';»rI j <./4-Belles Demoiselles Plantation ' ' , ,. . _ 446 mm-. " .. •. .-,><1- ••jot! .Hoojt—h'jntJR 1
CHARLES WADDELL CTFFISNUTT (1858-1932): "S', * >:,,J L* $5^ UHI . ; - . - R- • U V*/ WO KBIIJ i «•., •> ?j—<VJ»I& ART t IRHA 'Th'e Goophered^Grapevine wr/ r l t 'w mi l ionmn I 3-58 The Wife of His Youth o;i ot—wdnusrlD .. ad jnn bgsn -;nO Sf67 ^'Metropolitan Experience rioiouA t>itj -uoitoifdw1? 475 • . , . ' . ; I'liStiO loi HOT? JOli bllJ03 I i'lA
)?:>ciRi ISRLIM—SIMRCIHRMTN 1 479 ; " ' l • • - • • i . i « • ' ' s , ' j V y V j { R a- j'f]-'; 'Aj How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox ,, . 0 . .480 J i ' , •. 1 : 'j:\'i a» v/O!A rK^'-r Free Joe and the Rest of the World , 482
- • : a fr y' \Ui WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS (1837-1920) , , R , , ,490 ' M ) i f u s i ^ ' J E W l - s , ' j i k l r a m . ! w i I J s H o i V > ; Editha . >. ., wortiin cne;i 'wi-jruB •»? lib "rbbBS-ta" noq/j bfithsoiq vH t'49-1 •l;'U! :'0(II);)g3f!j;v3'io 3!i;oA A Erri HENRYJAMES (1843^1916) ' > supltni; uu n •sitUfi aifT '"501
, ,, •jftrifrtuz ort rttrv/ yhfmrjrraA Daisy Miller: A Study , , 1 o * 1 f ^502 lihe Jolly Corner : V ' ' :
The Real Thing •, iljlieTur'n Of the Sci-ew^ ' '"lv! : J' ! or ^ \«j -.i.-.u," • -I OJ ?4S ~lKi «C 21 fnuii^fd W.VJ
AMBROSEBIERCE (1842-1914) ... 2,^*6§2
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KATE CHOPIN (1851-1904)
The Storm «• U Neg Creol The Awakening
STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)
Black riders came from the sea Mthe desert ,;i_ _ i '• A god in wrath J • saw a man pursuing the horizon Supposing that I should have the courage On the horizon the peaks assembled A man feared that he might find an assassin Do hot weep, maiden, for war is kind A man said to the universe A'man adrift on a slim spar The Open Boat The Blue Hotel The Monster
FRANK MORRIS (1870-1902)
A Deal in Wheat
JACK LONDON (1876-1916)
The Law of Life To Build a Fire ,The Red One
ANNA JULIA COOPER (C. 1858-1964)
Has America a Race Problem? FROM Woman Versus the Indian
ABRAHAM CAHAN (1860-1951)
The Imported Bridegroom , urins
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1871-1906) [f^r ' We Wear the Mask Ah Ante-Bellum Sermon When Malindy Sings The Colored Soldiers When Dey 'Listed Colored Soldiers Sympathy The Haunted Oak
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Ships That'Passin the Night if'Kb' ;&8I; a'9-74 Ere Sleep Comes Down to Sooth the Weary Eyes 974 1 ' ' W ' t x f r , ' IJhe Race Question Discussed 975 The Fourth of July and Race Outrages . , , ;97'8 The Ingrate ^ 980
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HENRY ADAMS (1838-1918)
The Dynamo and the Virgin
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
The Atlanta Exposition Address f. n '>k
Reading the Critical Context
T.''S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
Tradition and the Individual Talent
EZRA POUND (1885-1972)
A Retrospect
Literature of the Twentieth Century (1900 to 1945)
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THEODORE DREISER (1871-1945)
The Lost Phoebe Free ggo' ' ' ' ' •
O. HENRY (WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER) (1862-1910)
The Gift of the Magi A'Municipal Report k 3(:
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W.'E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) 4 \ i J . PJROM The Souls of Black Folk A Litany of Atlanta
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MMildySuggestion - 1 y:;:niO a.1107 The, Comet 1109
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SGI I :••• r>; < v;- -7 A EDWN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935) 1118
Luk'e Havergal . i, fi I.; 1,11.9 Zo|a':; " 1120 Richard Cory - " '1120 Cliff Klingenhagen „ 1121 Miniver Cheevy ",r .• How Annandale Went Out vs, i i s 1122 Eros Turanrios 1123 Mr. Flood's Party ,1124
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ROBERT FROST (1874-1963) 1126
Mending Wall ^v!.;:-\.k ' J "5^7 Home Burial • ; >: .1128 Aiiei Vpple-Picking ; , y ,'- ni ' 1131 The, Road Not Taken ^ : , ; • u • > ; oJf ; 1152 AnOld Man's Winter Night . bf . 1132 Birches 1133 The; Oven Bird .. c-.: a-i 1J34 For Once, Then, Something n i i i 1135 Fire and Ice 1135 ®esign •' ' 1;136 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 1136 ijesert Places 1137 In Winter in the Woods ' ;;11137 i" 1 .-J j . ,, i'„ ' f VO,-; '
GERTRUDE SIMMONS BONNIN (ZITKALA SA) (1876-1938) 1138 - •. i.-'-i FROM The School Days of an Indian Girl ; 1138
.<!• r JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871-1938) I ^ 1149
Lift,Every Voice and Sing 1150 FROM The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man "V' 1151
CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967) R 1174
Chicago 1174 LOSt ., ""I* ? ':"C- \ ,-';l.l75 Graceland. ,1175 Fog • 1176 Psalm of Those Who Go Forth Before Daylight 1176 Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind 1177 Smoke and Steel \ < 1179
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WILLA. CATHER (1873-1947) (''{•; ! t . Paul's Case A Wagner Matinee •b ? •' i - •' • ; \
ELLEN GLASGOW (1873-1945)
The. Shadowy Third
. > V ! GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946)
The Gentle Lena Susie Asado Picasso A Movie
SHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941)
I Want to Know Why FROM Winesburg, Ohio
The Book of the Grotesque : Hands
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JOHN DOS PASSOS (1896-1970)
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U.S.A. Preface
i The 42nd Parallel Proteus 1919 ; * Newsreel XLIII The Body of an American The Big Money Newsreel LXVI The, Camera Eye (50) ;
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SINCLAIR LEWIS (1885-1951)
Moths in the Arc Light
EZRA POUND (1885-1972)
Portrait d'une Femme Salutation A Pact In a Station of the Metro The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter FROM Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Preludes Gerontion Sweeney Among the Nightingales ; , * The Waste Land , Notes on "The Waste Land" Journey of the Magi
E. E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962)
[in Just-] [O sweet spontaneous] [Buffalo Bill's defunct] [the Cambridge ladies who livein furnished souls] Ballad [All in green went my love riding] [when god lets my body be] Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal -'
RING LARDNER (1885-1933)
Some Like Them Cold
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HART CRANE (1899-1932)
Carmen de Boheme Black Tambourine Praise for an Urn The Bathers A'Persuasion Ghaplinesque At-Melville's Tomb Voyages 1,2, and 3 FROM The Bridge ' vr'i > To Brooklyn Bridge
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EDGAR T.FF MASTERS (1868-1950)
FROM Spoon River Anthology Knowlt Hoheimer Nellie Clark
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First Fig [I shall forget you presently, my dear] [Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare]
WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955)
Peter Quince at the Clavier Sunday Morning Disillusionment of Ten O'clock Domination of Black Thirteen Ways of Looking ataiBlaekbirdn; Anecdote of the jar fjairbi The Snow Man A High-Toned Old Christian Woman The Emperor of Ice-Cream The Idea of Order at Key West Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour The Plain Sense of Things
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963)
Con Brio The' Young Housewife Pastoral Tract".'; • • -©arise Russe EllHombre To':a Solitary Disciple Queenannslace Portrait of a Lady The Widow's Lament in Springtime
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The Red Wheelbarrow Between Walls The Yachts Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
RAYMOND CHANDLER (1888-1959)
Red Wind
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JAMES THURBER (1894-1961)
You Could Look It Up
MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972)
The Past is the Present To a Steam Roller The; Fish Poetry A Graveyard
THE NEW NEGRO, ALAIN LOCKE, EDITOR
Vestiges, by Rudolph Fisher Fog, by John Matheus White Houses, by Claude McKay The Black Finger, by Angelina Grimke The Road, by Helene Johnson
COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946)
Yet Do I Marvel For a Lady I Know Incident From the Dark Tower A Brown Girl Dead Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song
J RAN TOOMER (1894-1967) ; NOU
FROM Cane Blood-Burning Moon
ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891-1960)
John Redding Goes to Sea
THOMAS WOLFE (1900-1938)
Only the Dead Know Brooklyn The Far and the Near
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R SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940)
Winter Dreams Bernice Bobs Her Hair
ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961)
In, Another Country
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Barn Burning Pantaloon in Black
LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)
THe Negro Speaks of Rivers Aunt Sue's Stories Question Th!e New Moon Mexican Market Woman The Weary Blues I Too Dream Boogie Harlem On the Road
JOHN STEINBECK (1902-1968)
The Chrysanthemums
EATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1890-1980)
Maria Concepcion
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LHave a Dream
JAMES R. MCDONOUGH (1946-)
"Just Like You And Me"
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Reading the Critical Context
TONI MORRISON (1931-)
FROM Playing in the Dark [American Africanism]
Literature of the Twentieth Century (1945 to 1999)
STERLING BROWN (1901-1989)
Strong Men ,; Pkrdners Children's Children Sporting Beasley
EUDORAWELTY (1909-2001) j
Powerhouse
RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960) i;5Y! " " The Man Who Was Almost a Man
GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917-2000)
Kitchenette Building The, Mother Sadie and Maud The Children of the Poor We Real Cool The Lovers of the Poor The Blackstone Rangers
RANDALL JARRELL(1914-1965)
Losses The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner A Girl in a Library In Montecito
ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979)
A.Miracle for Breakfast The Armadillo Brazil, January 1, 1502 .. v. i
ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977)
Memories of West Street And Lepke Skunk Hour Eof the Union Dead
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ANN PETRY (1908-1997) '
Solo, on the Drums
RICHARD WILBUR (1921—)
Marginalia Lamarck Elaborated A Hole in the Floor Trolling for Blues
JACK KEROLAC (1922-1969)
Mexico Fellaheen
An FN GINSBERG (1926-1997)' m4i._ Howl ' rU-i-'ii A'Supermarket in California
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DENISE LEVERTOV (1923-1997)
Beyond the End Pure Products Come into Animal Presence The Ache of Marriage OfTaste and See Abel's Bride Mad Song A Hunger
SYLVIA PLATII (1932-1963) OS? J Lady Lazarus Daddy §g\T • "
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Sonny's Blues , ••• - 1785 Stranger in the Village 1806 Os-'U
FLANNERY OCONNOR (1925-1964) , ^ v, F ' , : - .1814
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TIIJJE OLSEN (1913-2007) 1846
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TOkis RIVERA (1935-1984) ; S : , 1852
And The Earth Did Not Part . 1852
AMIRI BARAKA (LEROI JONES) (1934-) 1856
In Memory of Radio , ,,1857 The Bridge 1858 Notes for a Speech .: : 1858 An Agony, As Now 1859 A-Poem For Democrats (WM; [ -Mvp; > - -^tvyvioV T860i AfPoem For Speculative Hipsters ., 1861 A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand ' 1862 A Poem for Half-White College Students 1862
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SONIA SANCHEZ,(1934-)
the. final solution/ to blk/record/buyers \\omanhood Masks "Just Don't Never Give Up on Love"
BLACK FIRE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF AFRO-AMERICAN WRITING, LEROI JONES (AMIRI BARAKAJIAND LARRY NEAL, EDITORS ,
Neon Diaspora, by David Henderson For the Truth, by Edward Spriggs "Oh* shit a riot!" by Jacques Wakefield When my uncle willie saw, by Carol Freeman
JUNE JORDAN (1936-2002)
Poem About My Rights •;
Poem for Guatemala A New Politics of Sexuality
RITA DOVE (1952-)
Banneker
The Zeppelin Factory lender the Viaduct, 1932 Roast Possum Weathering Out
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON (1940-)
No Name Woman
EDWARD ALBEE (1928-)
The. Zoo Story
SAUL BELLOW (1915-2005)
A Silver Dish
KURT VONNEGUT (1922-1907)
Harrison Bergeron ( _
N. SCOTT MOMADAY (1934-)
FROM The Way to Rainy Mountain
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JOYCE CAROL OATES (1938-) s [ J
How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life over Again
ThfeiBirth of Tragedy . • " • :
JAMES ALAN MCPHERSON (1943-)
The Faithful .?,iv
ALICE WALKER (1944-)
Everyday Use
TIM O'BRIEN (1946-) N*;'' 1
On the Rainy River
AMY TAN (1952-)
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Shiloh
^AVID BRADLEY (1950-)
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GLORIA NAYLOR (1950-)
Lucielia Louise Turner
LESLIE MARMON SILKO (1948-)
The Man to Send Rain Clouds Coyote Holds a Full House in His Hand
RAYMOND CARVER (1938-1988)
Cathedral
GLORIA ANZALDUA (1942-2004)
The Homeland, Aztlan / El otro Mexico
LOUISE ERDRICH (1954-)
The Red Convertible
TINA HOWE (1937-)
Painting Churches
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THOMAS PYNCHON (1937-)
Entropy
AUGUST WILSON (1945-2005)
Fences . ,
SIMON ORTIZ (1941-)
A'Designated National Park Canyon de Chelly Final Solution: Jobs, Leaving
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BARACK OBAMA (1961-)
Inauguration Address
ALBERT GORE, JR. (1948-)
Our Choice
CRAIG M. MULLANEY (1978-)
Purgatory
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N. SCOTT MOMADAY (1934-)
The Arrowmaker
Literature of the Twenty-First Century
BILLY COLLINS (1941
Winter Syntax Books Introduction to Poetry
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YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA (1947-) 2263
Camouflaging the Chimera \ > 2264 A Greenness Taller Than Gods 2265 2527th Birthday of the Buddha 2265 Missing in Action 2266 Facing It 2267
CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI ( 1957-) 2268
The Disappearance 2268
JUNOT DIAZ (1968-) 2274
How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie 2275
GEORGE SAUNDERS (1958-) 2277
Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz ; \ 1 2278
SHERMAN ALEXIE (1966-) 2284
Class , p. ! ; - 2285 Defending Walt Whitman 2297
Reference Works, Bibliographies . > 2299
Criticism, Literary and Cultural History >'• • 2303
Acknowledgments ' ' - ' 2309
Index to Authors, Titles, antl First Lines . ^ 2317