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The Heath Anthology of American Literature Volume E: Contemporary Period (1945 to the Present)

ISBN: 9780618533015 | 061853301X
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/24/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
Unrivaled diversity and teachability have made "The Heath Anthology" a best-selling text since the publication of its first edition in 1989. In presenting a more inclusive canon of American literature, "The Heath Anthology" continues to balance the traditional, leading names in American literature with lesser-known writers and to build upon the anthology's other strengths: its apparatus and its ancillaries.Available in five volumes for greater flexibility, the Fifth Edition offers new thematic clusters to stimulate classroom discussions and to ... MORE
Prefacexvii
CONTEMPORARY PERIOD: 1945 TO THE PRESENT1883
Earlier Generations: Cold War Culture and Its Discontents
1887(458)
Ann Petry (1908-199... MORE
1891(13)
The Witness
1892(12)
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
1904(13)
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze
1905(1)
Root Cellar
1906(1)
Big Wind
1907(1)
from The Lost Son
1908(3)
1. The Flight
1908(1)
4. The Return
1909(1)
5. It was beginning winter
1910(1)
from Meditations of an Old Woman
1911(5)
First Meditation
1911(3)
from Fourth Meditation
1914(2)
Elegy
1916(1)
My Papa's Waltz
1916(1)
Eudora Welty (1909-2002)
1917(17)
The Wide Net
1919(15)
Charles Olson (1910-1970)
1934(18)
The Kingfishers
1936(7)
For Sappho, Back
1943(3)
I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
1946(4)
Maximus, to himself
1950(2)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
1952(8)
The Fish
1954(2)
The Man-Moth
1956(1)
At the Fishhouses
1957(2)
Filling Station
1959(1)
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
1960(11)
Portrait of a Madonna
1962(9)
Tillie Lerner Olsen (b. 1913)
1971(27)
Tell Me a Riddle
1972(26)
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)
1998(7)
Absalom
1999(2)
The Minotaur
2001(1)
Rite
2002(1)
The Poem as Mask
2003(1)
Martin Luther King, Malcolm X
2003(1)
How We Did It
2004(1)
Carlos Bulosan (1913-1956)
2005(8)
from America Is in the Heart
2006(7)
from Chapter XIII
2006(3)
from Chapter XIV
2009(4)
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
2013(4)
Tour 5
2014(1)
Those Winter Sundays
2014(1)
Summertime and the Living...
2015(1)
Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday
2016(1)
Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)
2017(13)
The Magic Barrel
2018(12)
Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-1994)
2030(21)
A Party Down at the Square
2031(5)
Flying Home
2036(13)
Brave Words for a Startling Occasion
2049(2)
Arthur Miller (b. 1915)
2051(75)
The Crucible
2053(73)
Saul Bellow (b. 1915)
2126(16)
Looking for Mr. Green
2127(15)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
2142(12)
The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith
2143(4)
The Mother
2147(1)
We Real Cool
2148(1)
A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon
2149(3)
The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till
2152(1)
Ulysses
2153(1)
Robert Lowell, Jr. (1917-1977)
2154(8)
Memories of West Street and Lepke
2155(1)
Skunk Hour
2156(2)
For Theodore Roethke
2158(1)
For the Union Dead
2158(3)
Near the Ocean
2161(1)
Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921)
2162(10)
Seventeen Syllables
2164(8)
Grace Paley (b. 1922)
2172(9)
he Expensive Moment
2173(8)
John Okada (1923-1971)
2181(12)
from No-No Boy
2183(10)
Chapter 6
2183(10)
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
2193(23)
Sonny's Blues
2194(22)
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
2216(13)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
2217(12)
A Sheaf of Poetry and Prose from the Beat Movement
2229(44)
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
2229(14)
A Supermarket in California
2231(1)
Howl
2232(8)
America
2240(3)
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
2243(8)
The Vanishing American Hobo
2245(6)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)
2251(8)
I Am Waiting
2252(4)
Dove Sta Amore...
2256(1)
The Old Italians Dying
2256(3)
Brenda (Bonnie) Frazer (b. 1939)
2259(3)
from Troia: Mexican Memoirs
2260(2)
Joyce Johnson (b. 1934)
2262(5)
from Door Wide Open
2263(2)
from Minor Characters
2265(2)
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
2267(6)
Riprap
2269(1)
Vapor Trails
2269(1)
Wave
2270(1)
It Was When
2271(2)
Malcolm X (1925-1965)
2273(6)
from The Autobiography of Malcolm X
2274(5)
from Chapter 19, 1965
2274(5)
Robert Creeley (b. 1926)
2279(6)
Hart Crane
2280(2)
I Know a Man
2282(1)
For Love
2282(2)
Words
2284(1)
America
2285(1)
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)
2285(5)
My Heart
2287(1)
The Day Lady Died
2287(1)
Why I Am Not a Painter
2288(1)
Poem
2289(1)
John Ashbery (b. 1927)
2290(7)
The Instruction Manual
2291(3)
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape
2294(1)
As You Came from the Holy Land
2295(2)
Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928)
2297(5)
The Shawl
2299(3)
Edward Albee (b. 1928)
2302(5)
The Sand Box
2303(4)
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
2307(5)
Her Kind
2309(1)
Housewife
2309(1)
Young
2310(1)
Somewhere in Africa
2310(2)
Paule Marshall (b. 1929)
2312(9)
To Da-Duh, in Memoriam
2314(7)
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
2321(9)
Diving into the Wreck
2322(3)
From a Survivor
2325(1)
Power
2326(1)
Not Somewhere Else, but Here
2326(1)
Coast to Coast
2327(1)
Frame
2328(2)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
2330(10)
For a Fatherless Son
2331(1)
Daddy
2332(2)
Lady Lazarus
2334(3)
Stings
2337(1)
Fever 103°
2338(2)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
2340(5)
I Have a Dream
2341(4)
New Generations: Postmodernity and Difference
2345
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith (b. 1929)
2355(10)
Sometimes It Just Happens That Way; That's All
2356(9)
John Barth (b. 1930)
2365(17)
Lost in the Funhouse
2366(16)
A Sheaf of Vietnam Conflict Poetry and Prose
2382(50)
Michael Herr (b. 1940)
2482
from Dispatches
2483
Tim O'Brien (b. 1946)
2390(10)
In the Field
2392(8)
Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
2400(11)
from The Armies of the Night
2401(10)
Robert Bly (b. 1926)
2411(8)
Counting Small-Boned Bodies
2412(1)
The Teeth Mother Naked at Last
2413(6)
Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)
2419(6)
Tu Do Street
2420(1)
Prisoners
2421(1)
Thanks
2422(1)
Facing It
2423(1)
Fog Galleon
2424(1)
Denise Levertov (1923-1997)
2425(7)
Illustrious Ancestors
2427(1)
A Solitude
2427(2)
Making Peace
2429(1)
A Woman Alone
2430(1)
The May Mornings
2431(1)
Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)
2432(5)
At the End of the Mechanical Age
2433(4)
Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
2437(14)
Recitatif
2438(13)
John Updike (b. 1932)
2451(7)
Trust Me
2453(5)
Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933)
2458(21)
The Sky Is Gray
2459(20)
N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) (b. 1934)
2479(10)
from The Way To Rainy Mountain
2480(9)
Headwaters
2480(1)
Prologue
2481(1)
From the Introduction
2482(2)
IV
2484(1)
XVI
2485(1)
XVII
2486(1)
XXIV
2487(1)
Epilogue
2487(2)
Rainy Mountain Cemetery
2489(1)
Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
2489(9)
Power
2490(2)
Walking Our Boundaries
2492(1)
Never Take Fire from a Woman
2493(1)
The Art of Response
2493(1)
Stations
2494(2)
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
2496(2)
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934)
2498(27)
An Agony. As now.
2499(2)
Ka 'Ba
2501(1)
Black People: This Is Our Destiny
A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand
2502(1)
Numbers, Letters
2503(1)
Dutchman
2504(21)
Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934)
2525(8)
to blk/record/buyers
2526(1)
Masks
2526(2)
Just Don't Never Give Up on Love
2528(2)
A Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King
2530(2)
Father and Daughter
2532(1)
Tomas Rivera (1935-1984)
2533(9)
from...y no se lo tragó la tierra/And the Earth Did Not Devour Him
2534(8)
Lucille Clifton (b. 1936)
the thirty eighth yea
2542(2)
i am accused of tending to the past
2544(1)
at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989
2544(1)
reply
2545(1)
in white america
2546(2)
June Jordan (b. 1936)
2548(8)
Poem About My Rights
2550(2)
To Free Nelson Mandela
2552(2)
Moving Towards Home
2554(2)
Rudolfo A. Anaya (b.1937)
2556(10)
from Bless Me, Ultima
2558(8)
Dieciocho
2558(8)
Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937)
2566(11)
Entropy
2568(9)
Nicholasa Mohr (b. 1938)
2577(8)
from Rituals of Survival
2578(7)
Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
2585(16)
from Cathedral
2586(15)
A Small Good Thing
2586(15)
Lawson Fusao Inada (b. 1938)
2601(13)
Instructions to All Persons
2603(2)
Two Variations on a Theme by Thelonius Monk as Inspired by Mal Waldron
2605(5)
Introduction: Monk's Prosody
2605(1)
I. Blue Monk (linear)
2606(4)
II. Blue Monk (percussive)
2610(1)
Kicking the Habit
2610(3)
On Being Asian American
2613(1)
Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)
2614(6)
Song: I Want a Witness
2615(1)
Nightmare Begins Responsibility
2615(1)
Here Where Coltrane Is
2616(1)
A Narrative of the Life and Times of John Coltrane: Played by Himself
2617(1)
Camp Story
2618(2)
Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
2620(13)
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
2622(11)
Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
2633(6)
I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra
2634(3)
Flight to Canada
2637(2)
Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)
2639(7)
The Lesson
2640(6)
Frank Chin (b. 1940)
2646(6)
Railroad Standard Time
2647(5)
Cluster: Prison Literature
2652(28)
Etheridge Knight (1931-4991)
2653(5)
The Idea of Ancestry
2654(2)
The Violent Space (or when your sister sleeps around for money)
2656(1)
Ilu, the Talking Drum
2657(1)
A Poem tot Myself (or Blues for a Mississippi Black Boy)
2658(1)
Jimmy Santiago Baca (b. 1952)
2658(5)
I've Taken Risks
2661(1)
I Put on My jacket
2661(1)
Commitment
2662(1)
Ghost Reading in Sacramento
2662(1)
Kathy Boudin (b. 1943)
2663(7)
The Call
2664(3)
Our Skirt
2667(1)
A Trilogy of journeys
2668(2)
Leonard Peltier (b. 1944)
2670(3)
from Prison Writings
2671(2)
Judee Norton (b. 1949)
2673(7)
Norton #59900
2674(6)
James Welch (Blackfeet-Gros Ventre) (b. 1940)
2680(13)
from Winter in the Blood
2681(12)
Bharati Mukherjee (b. 1940)
2693(10)
A Wife's Story
2694(9)
Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)
2703(9)
No Name Woman
2704(8)
Bobbie Ann Mason (b. 1940)
2712(12)
Airwaves
2713(11)
Simon Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo) (b. 1941)
2724(7)
from Sand Creek
2725(6)
John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941)
2731(7)
Valaida
2732(6)
Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004)
2738(25)
from Borderlands/La Frontera
2740(23)
3. Entering into the Serpent
2740(12)
7. La conciencia de la mestiza/Toward a New Consciousness
2752(11)
Janice Mirikitani (b. 1942)
2763(6)
For My Father
2764(1)
Desert Flowers
2765(2)
Breaking Tradition
2767(1)
Recipe
2768(1)
Pat Mora (b. 1942)
2769(3)
Border Town: 1938
2770(1)
Unnatural Speech
2770(1)
University Avenue
2771(1)
James Alan McPherson (b. 1943)
2772(17)
A Solo Song: For Doc
2773(16)
Lee Smith (b. 1944)
2789(17)
The Bubba Stories
2791(15)
Pedro Pietri (1944-2004)
2806(10)
Puerto Rican Obituary
2807(7)
Traffic Violations
2814(2)
Richard Rodriguez (b. 1944)
2816(5)
from The Hunger of Memory
2817(4)
Alice Walker (b. 1944)
2821(8)
Laurel
2822(7)
Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna) (b. 1948)
2829(8)
Lullaby
2830(7)
Wendy Rose (Hopi) (b. 1948)
2837(10)
Throat Song: The Rotating Earth
2838(1)
Loo-wit
2839(1)
To the Hopi in Richmond (Santa Fe Indian Village)
2840(1)
If I Am Too Brown or Too White for You
2841(1)
Story Keeper
2842(3)
Julia
2845(2)
Sandra Maria Esteves (b. 1948) and Luz Maria Umpierre (b. 1947): A Poetry Exchange
2847(8)
A la Mujer Borrinqueña (Esteves)
2849(1)
In Response (Umpierre)
2850(1)
So Your Name Isn't Maria Cristina (Esteves)
2851(2)
Music d'Orsay (Umpierre)
2853(2)
Jessica Hagedorn (b. 1949)
2855(18)
The Blossoming of BongBong
2856(11)
The Death of Anna May Wong
2867(1)
Filipino Boogie
2868(2)
Homesick
2870(2)
Vulva Operetta
2872(1)
Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
2873(10)
Don't Tell Me You Don't Know
2874(9)
Victor Hernandez Cruz (b. 1949)
2883(5)
urban dream
2884(1)
Mountain Building
2885(2)
Table of Contents
2887(1)
Carolyn Forché (b. 1950)
2888(8)
from The Country Between Us
2889(1)
The Colonel
2889(1)
Because One Is Always Forgotten
2890(1)
As Children Together
2890(3)
from The Recording Angel
2893(2)
Elegy
2895(1)
Paula Vogel (b. 1951)
2896(41)
How I Learned to Drive
2897(40)
Karen Tei Yamashita (b. 1951)
2937(4)
from Tropic of Orange
2938(3)
2. Benefits - Koreatown
2938(3)
Garrett Kaoru Hongo (b. 1951)
2941(9)
Yellow Light
2942(1)
Off from Swing Shift
2943(2)
Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic?
2945(1)
And Your Soul Shall Dance
2946(1)
The Unreal Dwelling: My Years in Volcano
2947(3)
Joy Harjo (Creek) (b. 1951)
2950(10)
The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window
2951(2)
New Orleans
2953(2)
Remember
2955(1)
Vision
2955(1)
Anchorage
2956(1)
Deer Dancer
2957(2)
We Must Call a Meeting
2959(1)
Tato Laveria (b. 1951)
2960(6)
frio
2961(1)
AmeRican
2962(2)
Latero Story
2964(2)
Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952)
2966(4)
Claims
2967(1)
The Woman Who Was Left at the Altar
2968(1)
My Father in the Navy: A Childhood Memory
2968(1)
En Mis Ojos No Hay Dias
2969(1)
Latin Women Pray
2970(1)
Rita Dove (b. 1952)
2970(5)
Kentucky, 1833
2971(1)
Ö
2972(1)
Daystar
2972(1)
The Oriental Ballerina
2973(2)
Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952)
2975(8)
Ducks
2976(1)
Different Ways to Pray
2977(1)
My Father and the Figtree
2978(1)
Blood
2979(1)
Where the Soft Air Lives
2980(3)
Gary Soto (b. 1952)
2983(6)
Braly Street
2984(2)
The Cellar
2986(1)
Mexicans Begin Jogging
2987(1)
Black Hair
2988(1)
Kearney Park
2988(1)
Rane Arroyo (b. 1953)
2989(6)
My Transvestite Uncle Is Missing
2990(1)
Caribbean Braille
2991(1)
Write What You Know
2992(3)
That Flag
2995(1)
Louise Erdrich (b. 1954)
2995(20)
from Love Medicine
2997(9)
Saint Marie (1934)
2997(9)
Lorna Dee Cervantes (b. 1954)
3006(1)
Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway
3007(3)
Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person Could Believe in the War Between Races
3010(1)
Macho
3011(1)
Bananas
3012(3)
Helena Maria Viramontes (b. 1954)
3015(11)
The Cariboo Café
3017(9)
Aurora Levins Morales (b. 1954)
3026(5)
Child of the Americas
3027(1)
Puertoricanness
3028(2)
Heart of My Heart, Bone of My Bone
3030(1)
Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954)
3031(4)
Eleven
3033(2)
Gish Jen (b. 1955)
3035(11)
In the American Society
3036(10)
Kimiko Hahn (b. 1955)
3046(17)
Strands
3047(2)
Resistance: A Poem on Ikat Cloth
3049(8)
Cuttings
3057(6)
Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)
3063(5)
I Ask My Mother to Sing
3064(1)
My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud
3065(1)
With Ruins
3066(1)
This Room and Everything in It
3066(2)
David Foster Wallace (b. 1962)
3068(3)
The Devil Is a Busy Man
3069(2)
Chang-Rae Lee (b.1965)
3071(8)
Coming Home Again
3072(7)
Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)
3079(7)
Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play "The Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock
3081(5)
Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969)
3086(5)
New York Day Women
3088(3)
Minh Duc Nguyen
3091
Tale of Apricot
3093
AcknowledgmentsA-1
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of PoemsI-1

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