Concise Anthology of
American Literature
Sixth Edition
George McMichael
California State University, Hayward
James S. Leonard
The Citadel
PEARSON
Prentice
Hall
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458
Contents
Preface
xxix
The Literature of Colonial America
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
(1451-1506)
1
14
Columbus's Letter Describing His First Voyage
The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America
Thursday 11 October 1492
Sunday 14 October 1492
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20
22
CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH (1580-1631)
23
FROM
FROM
The General History of Virginia
The Third Book
Powhatan's Discourse of Peace and War
25
37
NATIVE AMERICAN VOICES I
38
Myths and Tales
How the World Began
How the World Was Made
The Beginning of Summer and Winter
The Gift of the Sacred Pipe
Thunder, Dizzying Liquid, and Cups That Do Not Grow
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48
50
52
WILLIAM BRADFORD
FROM
(1590-1657)
Of Plymouth Plantation
FROM
Chapter I [Bradford
FROM
FROM
FROM
on the Rise of Protestantism]
Chapter III, Of Their Settling in Holland,
and Their Manner of Living . . .
Chapter IV, Showing the Reasons and Causes
of Their Removal
Chapter VII, Of Their Departure from Leyden . . .
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FROM
FROM
FROM
FROM
FROM
FROM
FROM
Chapter IX, Of Their Voyage . . .
Chapter X, Showing How They Sought Out a Place
of Habitation . . .
Chapter XI [The Mayflower Contract]
Chapter XII [The Narragansett Threat]
Chapter XIV [Ending the "Common Course . . ."]
Chapter XXVIII [War with the Pequots]
Chapter XXXVI [Winslow Abandons
the Plymouth Colony]
JOHN WINTHROP (1588-1649)
FROM
The Journal of John Winthrop
THE BAY PSALM BOOK (1640)
FROM
The Bay Psalm Book
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71
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85
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THE NEW ENGLAND PRIMER (C. 1683)
89
FROM
90
The New England Primer
ANNE BRADSTREET (1612-1672)
The Prologue
.
Contemplations
The Flesh and the Spirit
The Author to Her Book
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
To My Dear and Loving Husband
A Letter to Her Husband Absent upon Public Employment
In Reference to Her Children, 23 June, 1659
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet . . .
On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet . . .
[On Deliverance] from Another Sore Fit
Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666
As Weary Pilgrim
FROM Meditations Divine and Moral
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Contents
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EDWARD TAYLOR (c. 1642-1729)
122
Prologue
• '
FROM Preparatory Meditations
The Reflexion
Meditation 6 (First Series)
Meditation 8 (First Series)
Meditation 38 (First Series)
Meditation 39 (First Series)
Meditation 150 (Second Series)
FROM God's Determinations
The Preface
The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
Huswifery
The Ebb and Flow
A Fig for Thee Oh! Death
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•
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134
135
135
SAMUEL SEWALL (1652-1730)
137
FROM
138
The Diary of Samuel Sewall
MARYROWLANDSON(C. 1637-1711)
FROM
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration . . .
WILLIAM BYRD
FROM
148
• 149
II (1674-1744)
166
The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709 - i 712
JONATHAN EDWARDS
(1703-1758)
171
Sarah Pierrepont
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
FROM Images or Shadows of Divine Things •
173
174
186
The Literature of Reason and Revolution
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
FROM
191
(1706 -1790)
The Autobiography
167
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;
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Contents
MICHEL-GUDLLAUME-JEAN DE CREVECOEUR (1735-1813)
FROM
259
Letters from an American Farmer
Letter III (What Is an American?)
Letter IX (Description of Charleston . . .)
260
269
THOMAS PAINE (1737-1809)
FROM
FROM
274
Common Sense
The American Crisis
THOMAS JEFFERSON
276
277
(1743-1826)
284
The Declaration of Independence
FROM Notes on the State of Virginia
FROM Query V: Cascades
FROM Query VI: Productions Mineral, Vegetable
and Animal
FROM
Query XVII: Religion
FROM
Query XVIII: Manners
FROM
Query XIX: Manufactures
To James Madison
To John Adams
286
THE FEDERALIST (1787-1788)
304
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289
293
296
297
298
301
.
The Federalist No. 10
The Federalist No. 51
PHILLISWHEATLEY (1754?-1784)
On Virtue
To the University of Cambridge, in New England
On Being Brought from Africa to America
On Imagination
To S. M. A Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
Recollection
To His Excellency General Washington
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PHUJP FRENEAU (1752-1832)
.
- 323
The Power of Fancy
' v
.... .
The Hurricane
To Sir Toby
The Wild Honey Suckle
The Indian Burying Ground
On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature
'
HANNAH WEBSTER FOSTER (1758-1840)
FfiOM
FROM
335
T h e C o q u e t t e ; or, T h e History o f Eliza W h a r t o n ;
WILLIAM BARTRAM
. . .
336
(1739-1823)
355
Travels T h r o u g h N o r t h a n d S o u t h C a r o l i n a . . .
.
NATIVE AMERICAN VOICES II
FROM A Son of the Forest
FROM Crashing Thunder . . .
FROM Story of the Indian
FROM Pawnee Hero Stories
Legend of the Snake Order . . .
When the Coyote Married the Maiden
The Creation of the Horse
Poems
'
Orations
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329
330
332
332
334
356
372
'
'
'
The Age of Romanticism
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380
382
'
384
384
388
•••••'
^
, „ 392
395
399
WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859)
404
FROM
FROM
406
A History of New York, by Diedrich Knickerbocker
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
The Author's Account of Himself
Rip Van Winkle
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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415
428
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(1789 -1851)
450
Preface to the Leather-Stocking Tales
FROM
The Deerslayer
FROM
The Pioneers
452
454
472
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794 -1878)
478
Thanatopsis
To a Waterfowl
To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe
To the Fringed Gentian
The Prairies
Abraham Lincoln
480
482
483
483
484
487
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
EDGAR ALLAN POE
(1809-1849)
Sonnet—To Science
To Helen
The City in the Sea
Sonnet—Silence
Lenore
The Raven
Annabel Lee
Ligeia
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Purloined Letter
FROM
"Twice-Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne" [A Review]
The Philosophy of Composition
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Nature
The American Scholar
Self-Reliance
The Rhodora
Each and All
Concord Hymn
The Problem
Ode
Hamatreya
(1803 -1882)
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490
490
491
492
492
493
496
497
508
522
536
539
548
550
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592
610
610
611
612
614
616
Contents
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Give All to Love
Days
Brahma
618
619
619
'
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
(1804-1864)
620
Young Goodman Brown
The Minister's Black Veil
The Birth-Mark
HERMAN MELVILLE
622
632
641
(1819-1891)
652
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Benito Cereno
The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
The Portent
Shiloh
Malvern Hill
The College Colonel
The ;Eolian Harp
The Tuft of Kelp
The Maldive Shark
The Berg
Art
Greek Architecture
654
680
. 739
756
756
757
758
759
761
761
761
762
763
HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862)
763
Civil Disobedience
FROM
765
Walden
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
A Psalm of Life
The Arsenal at Springfield
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
My Lost Youth
Aftermath
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
\
(1807 -1882)
782
874
,
875
876
878
880
882
882
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819-1891)
883
To the Dandelion
FROM
The Biglow Papers, First Series
FROM A Fable for Critics
884
886
891
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811-1896)
900
FROM
901
Uncle Tom's Cabin
FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1818-1895)
FROM
941
The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
942
HARRIET ANN JACOBS (1813-1897)
FROM
960
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
. 961
(1809-1865)
988
To Horace Greeley
Gettysburg Address
Second Inaugural Address
WALT WHITMAN
990
991
991
(1819-1892)
Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass
FROM
Inscriptions
One's-SelflSing
When I read the book
Song of Myself
FROM
Children of Adam
Out of the rolling ocean the crowd
Once I pass'd through a populous city
Facing west from California's shores
FROM
Calamus
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing
I hear it was charged against me
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
FROM
Sea-Drift
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking
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995
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1010
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FROM
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By the Roadside
When I heard the learn'd astronomer
.
The Dalliance of the Eagles
FROM Drum-Taps
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
.
Bivouac on a Mountain Side
.
Vigil strange I kept on the field one night
A march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown
A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim
The Wound-Dresser
FROM Memories of President Lincoln
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd
.
FROM Autumn Rivulets
There was a child went forth
Passage to India
The Sleepers
FROM Whispers of Heavenly Death.
A noiseless patient spider
FROM
Noon to Starry Night
To a Locomotive in Winter
FROM Good-Bye My Fancy
L. of G.'s Purport
EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)
49
67
125
130
165
185
210
214
216
241
249
258
280
301
303
328
338
401
I never lost as much but twice
Success is counted sweetest
For each ecstatic instant
These are the days when Birds come back
A WoundedDeer—leaps highest
"Faith" is a fine invention The thought beneath so slight a
I taste a liquor never brewed
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
I like a look of Agony
Wild Nights—Wild Nights!
There's a certain Slant of light
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
I reason, Earth is short
The Soul selects her own Society
A Bird came down the Walk
I know that He exists
What Soft—Cherubic Creatures
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1070
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•536
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712
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1624
1732
1755
Contents
Much Madness is divinest Sense
•
This is my letter to the World
'
I died for Beauty—but was scarce
I heard a Fly buzz—when I died
It was not Death, for I stood up
The Heart asks Pleasure—first
I like to see it lap the Miles
I cannot live with You
Pain—has an Element of Blank
One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted
Essential Oils—are wrung
Because I could not stop for Death
Presentiment—is that long Shadow—on the Lawn
Death is a Dialogue between
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
I never saw a Moor
The Bustle in a House
He preached upon "Breadth" till it argued him narrow
A Route of Evanescence
Apparently with no surprise
My life closed twice before its close
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
.
The Age of Realism
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1109
1109
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1111
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1116
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1117
1117
1118
1118
1119
MARK TWAIN (1835-1910)
1126
The Dandy Frightening the Squatter
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1128
1129
1133
1136
MARY E. WELKINS FREEMAN
1320
A New England Nun
(1852-1930)
.
1321
BRET HARTE (1836-1902)
Tennessee's Partner
1330
.
1331
Contents
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CHARLES WADDELL CHESNUTT (1858 -1932)
1338
The Goophered Grapevine
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
1339
(1837-1920)
1348
Editha
1349
HENRY JAMES (1843-1916)
1359
Daisy Miller: A Study
The Real Thing
1361
1400
AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914)
1418
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
1419
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860 -1935)
1425
The Yellow Wall-Paper
1428
KATE CHOPIN
(1851-1904)
1439
Neg Creol
1440
STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)
1445
Black riders came from the sea
In the desert
A god in wrath
I saw a man pursuing the horizon
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind
A man said to the universe
A man adrift on a slim spar
The Open Boat
FRANK NORRIS
(1870-1902)
A Deal in Wheat
.
"
.
1446
1447
1447
1447
1448
1448
1448
1449
1466
1467
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JACK LONDON
(1876-1916)
1475
The Law of Life
EDITH WHARTON
1476
(1862-1937)
1481
The Other Two
THEODORE DREISER
1483
(1871-1945)
1497
The Lost Phoebe
1498
The Modernist Era
1509
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
1514
FROM
1516
The Souls of Black Folk
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)
1531
Richard Cory
Cliff Klingenhagen
Miniver Cheevy
How Annandale Went Out
Eros Turannos
Mr. Flood's Party
1532
1532
1533
1534
1534
1535
ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)
1537
The Tuft of Flowers
Mending Wall
Home Burial
.
The Black Cottage
After Apple-Picking
The Wood-Pile
The Road Not Taken
An Old Man's Winter Night
Birches
The Oven Bird
For Once, Then, Something
1538
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1540
1543
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1547
1548
1549
1549
1551
1551
•
Contents
xix
Fire and Ice
Design
'
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
WILLACATHER (1873-1947)
'
,
•
•• .,
1553
Paul's Case
1554
GERTRUDE STEIN (1874 -1946)
1567
FROM Three Lives
The Gentle Lena
Susie Asado
Picasso
,1570
1590
1590
SHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941)
1592
I Want to Know Why
EUGENE O'NEILL
'
1593
(1888-1953)
1600
The Hairy Ape
. 1602
EZRA POUND (1885-1972)
1632
Portrait d'une Femme
,'_
.
Salutation
' " . A Pact
In a Station of the Metro
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
FROM Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
I [E.P. Ode pour l'Election de son Sepulchre]
II [The age demanded an image]
III [The tea-rose tea-gown, etc.]
.
IV [These fought in any case]
' ""
V [There died a myriad]
...
FROM
:
The Cantos
I
II
XLV
LXXXI
.1551
1552
1552
• . •.'
[And then went down to the ship]
[Hang it all, Robert Browning]
[With Usura]
[What thou lovest well remains]
1633
1634
1635
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1637
1637
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1647
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T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
1648
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Preludes
Gerontion
The Waste Land
Notes on "The Waste Land"
Journey of the Magi
1650
1653
1655
1657
1669
1674
E. E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962)
1675
[all in green went my love riding]
[when god lets my body be]
[in Just-]
[O sweet spontaneous]
[Buffalo Bill's defunct]
[the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls]
[Poem, or beauty hurts Mr. Vinal]
[my sweet old etcetera]
[anyone lived in a pretty how town]
1676
1677
1678
1678
1679
1680
1680
1682
1682
HART CRANE
(1899-1932)
1683
Black Tambourine
Chaplinesque
At Melville's Tomb
Voyages
FROM The Bridge
To Brooklyn Bridge
Powhatan's Daughter
The Harbor Dawn
Van Winkle
The River
The Tunnel
Atlantis
1684
1685
1685
1686
WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955)
1703
Peter Quince at the Clavier
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
Sunday Morning
•
Bantams in Pine-Woods
Anecdote of the Jar
To the One of Fictive Music
1704
1707
1707
1710
1711
1711
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1689
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1690
1692
1696
1700
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•
Contents
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The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Of Modern Poetry
'
Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
The Plain Sense of Things
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
(1883-1963)
Con Brio
The Young Housewife
Pastoral
Tract
Danse Russe
Queen-Ann's-Lace
Spring and All
To Elsie
The Red Wheelbarrow
At the Ball Game
Between Walls
This Is Just to Say
These
Seafarer
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972)
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1713
1713
1714
1715
1716
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1717
1718
1720
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1721
1722
1723
1724
1725
1725
1726
1727
1727
1728
To a Steam Roller
The Fish
Poetry
No Swan So Fine
In Distrust of Merits
1729
1730
1731
1732
1732
COUNTEE CULLEN (1903 -1946)
1734
Yet Do I Marvel
For a Lady I Know
Incident
From the Dark Tower
A Brown Girl Dead
Heritage
1735
1736
1736
1736
1737
1737
JEAN TOOMER
(1894-1967)
Blood-Burning Moon
1740
1741
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ZORANEALE HURSTON
(1891?-1960)
1748
John Redding Goes to Sea
THOMAS WOLFE
1750
(1900-1938)
1759
Only the Dead Know Brooklyn
1761
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940)
1764
Winter Dreams
1766
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
(1899-1961)
1782
The Killers
1784
WILLIAM FAULKNER
(1897-1962)
1790
That Evening Sun
LANGSTON HUGHES
1792
(1902-1967)
1803
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Young Gal's Blues
I, Too
Note on Commercial Theatre
Dream Boogie
Harlem
1804
1805
1806
1806
1807
1807
(1902-1968)
1808
JOHN STEINBECK
Flight
' 1809
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1890-1980)
Maria Conception
1821
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1823
Contents
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The Postmodern Era
1837
EUDORAWELTY (1909-2001)
1844
Death of a Traveling Salesman
1845
(1908-1960)
1854
Eight Men
The Man Who Was Almost a Man
1855
RICHARD WRIGHT
FROM
RALPH ELLISON
FROM
(1914-1994)
1864
Invisible Man
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
1865
(1911-1983)
1875
The Glass Menagerie
THEODORE ROETHKE
1878
(1908-1963)
1923
Open House
Cuttings
Cuttings (Later)
Root Cellar
My Papa's Waltz
1924
1925
1925
1925
1926
ELIZABETH BISHOP
(1911-1979)
A Miracle for Breakfast
Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance
Brazil, January 1, 1502
In the Waiting Room
.
ROBERT LOWELL
(1917-1977)
Mr. Edwards and the Spider
Memories of West Street and Lepke
Skunk Hour
1926
.
,•
1927
1928
1930
1931
1933
1935
. 1936
1938
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Contents
For the Union Dead
Will Not Come Back
ANNE SEXTON
1939
1941
(1928-1974)
1942
The Farmer's Wife
Ringing the Bells
And One for My Dame
The Addict
Us
Rowing
SYLVIA PLATH
1942
1943
1944
1945
1947
1947
.
.
(1932-1963)
1949
Two Views of a Cadaver Room
The Bee Meeting
Ariel
The Applicant
Daddy
Fever 103°
.
JAMES DICKEY (1923-1997)
1958
The Lifeguard
Reincarnation (I)
In the Mountain Tent
Cherrylog Road
The Shark's Parlor
W. S. MERWIN (1927-
.
)
Grandfather in the Old Men's Home
The Drunk in the Furnace
Separation
Noah's Raven
The Dry Stone Mason
Fly
Strawberries
Direction
1950
1950
1952
1953
1954
1956
1959
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1962
1965
1967
,
•
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1969
1970
.. 1970
1970
1971
1971
1972
Contents
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LOUISE GLUCK (1943-
)
1973
Hesitate to Call
The Chicago Train
The Edge
My Neighbor in the Mirror
Thanksgiving
Vespers
Field Flowers
> •
• - . . . . .
. 1974
1974
1974
•. 1 9 7 5
1975
1976
1976
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JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987)
1977
Sonny's Blues
'
FLANNERY O ' C O N N O R
1978
(1925-1964)
2000
Good Country People
JOHN UPDIKE (1932-
2001
)
2015
Flight
BERNARD MALAMUD
.
(1914-1986)
2028
The Magic Barrel
AMIRI BARAKA (LEROI JONES)
'
(1934-
2016
)
In Memory of Radio
The Bridge
Notes for a Speech
An Agony, As Now
A Poem for Democrats
A Poem for Speculative Hipsters
A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand
A Poem for Half-White College Students
Biography
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Contents
(1936-2002)
2049
All the World Moved
In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Meta-Rhetoric
Poem About My Rights
2050
2050
2051
2052
(1928-
2055
JUNE JORDAN
EDWARD ALBEE
)
The Zoo Story
SAUL BELLOW
2056
(1915-2005)
2072
A Silver Dish
2073
JOYCE CAROL OATES
(1938-
)
The Knife
2094
ALICE WALKER (1944-
)
2104
Everyday Use
AMY TAN (1952FROM
2105
)
2111
The Joy Luck Club
Half and Half
2112
BOBBIE ANN MASON (1940-
)
Shiloh
2121
2123
GLORIA NAYLOR (1950-
FROM
2093
)
The Women of Brewster Place
Lucielia Louise Turner
RAYMOND CARVER
Cathedral
(1938-1988)
2133
2133
2144
2145
Contents
xxvii
SANDRA CISNEROS (1954-
)
2156
FROM Woman Hollering Creek
Mericans
2157
LOUISE ERDRICH (1954-
2159
FROM
)
Love Medicine
The Red Convertible (1974)
TINA HOWE (1937-
)
2167
Painting Churches
2168
TONI MORRISON (1931FROM
2160
)
2212
Sula
1922
DAVID MAMET
2213
(1947-
)
House of Games
JUDY BUDNITZ
(1973-
2222
2224
)
2262
Nice Big American Baby
Where We Come From
2263
Reference Works, Bibliographies
2278
Criticism, Literary and Cultural History
2283
Chronology
2291
Acknowledgments
2320
Index to Authors, Titles, and First lines
2327
FROM