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Concise Anthology of American Literature

by: McMichael, George; Levenson, J.C.; Marx, Leo; Smith, David E.; Claxton, Mae Miller; Bunn, Susan

Concise Anthology of American Literature

by: McMichael, George; Levenson, J.C.; Marx, Leo; Smith, David E.; Claxton, Mae Miller; Bunn, Susan

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ISBN 10:
0130289418
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2001
Publisher: Pearson College Div
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Summary

For one-semester or one-quarter courses in American Literature. The Concise Anthology of American Literature, Fifth Edition contains selections from Volumes I and II of the Anthology of American Literature, Seventh Edition. Carefully selected readings introduce students to America's literary heritage, from the colonial times of William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to the contemporary era of Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison.

Preface

xxix

The Literature of Colonial America

(188)

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)

(9)

Columbus's Letter Describing His First Voyage

(7)

The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America

Thursday 11 October 1492

(2)

Sunday 14 October 1492

(1)

Captain John Smith (1580-1631)

(15)

The General History of Virginia

The Third Book

(12)

Powhatan's Discourse of Peace and War

(1)

Native American Voices I

(15)

Myths and Tales

(14)

How the World Began

(8)

How the World Was Made

(1)

The Beginning of Summer and Winter

(2)

The Gift of the Sacred Pipe

(2)

Thunder, Dizzying Liquid, and Cups That Do Not Grow

(1)

William Bradford (1590-1657)

(16)

Of Plymouth Plantation

``Chapter IV, Showing the Reasons and Causes of Their Removal''

(2)

``Chapter VII, Of Their Departure from Leyden...''

(1)

``Chapter IX, Of Their Voyage...''

(3)

``Chapter X, Showing How They Sought Out a Place of Habitation...''

(2)

``Chapter XI [The Mayflower Compact]''

(3)

``Chapter XXVIII [The Pequot War]''

(2)

``Chapter XXXVI [Winslow's Final Departure]''

(1)

John Winthrop (1588-1649)

(11)

The Journal of John Winthrop

(10)

The Bay Psalm Book (1640)

(3)

The Bay Psalm Book

(3)

The New England Primer (c. 1683)

(7)

The New England Primer

(6)

Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)

(20)

The Prologue

(1)

Contemplations

(7)

The Flesh and the Spirit

(3)

The Author to Her Book

102

(1)

Before the Birth of One of Her Children

102

(1)

To My Dear and Loving Husband

103

(1)

A Letter to Her Husband...

103

(1)

In Reference to Her Children...

104

(2)

In Memory of My Dear Grandchild...

106

(1)

On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet...

107

(1)

Upon the Burning of Our House...

107

(2)

Edward Taylor (c. 1642-1729)

109

(16)

Prologue

110

(10)

Preparatory Meditations

The Reflexion

111

(1)

Meditation 6 (First Series)

112

(1)

Meditation 8 (First Series)

113

(1)

Meditation 38 (First Series)

114

(1)

Meditation 39 (First Series)

115

(2)

Meditation 150 (Second Series)

117

(1)

God's Determinations

The Preface

118

(1)

The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended

119

(1)

Upon a Spider Catching a Fly

120

(2)

Huswifery

122

(1)

The Ebb and Flow

122

(1)

A Fig for Thee Oh! Death

123

(2)

Samuel Sewall (1652-1730)

125

(11)

The Diary of Samuel Sewall

126

(10)

Mary Rowlanandson (c. 1637-1711)

136

(18)

A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

137

(17)

William Byrd II (1674-1744)

154

(5)

The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712

155

(4)

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)

159

(30)

Sarah Pierrepont

161

(1)

Personal Narrative

162

(10)

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

172

(17)

Images or Shadows of Divine Things

184

(5)

The Literature of Reason and Revolution

189

(250)

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

195

(127)

[Silence Dogood, No. 4]

197

(7)

Poor Richard Improved, 1758

199

(5)

An Address to the Public

204

(1)

The Autobiography

205

(117)

Michel-Guillaume-Jean De Crevecoeur (1735-1813)

322

(15)

Letters from an American Farmer

Letter III (What Is an American?)

324

(9)

Letter IX (Description of Charleston...)

333

(4)

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

337

(10)

Common Sense

339

(1)

The American Crisis

340

(7)

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

347

(20)

The Declaration of Independence

349

(12)

Notes on the State of Virginia

Query V: Cascades

351

(1)

Query VI: Productions Mineral, Vegetable and Animal

352

(4)

Query XVII: Religion

356

(3)

Query XVIII: Manners

359

(1)

Query XIX: Manufactures

360

(1)

To James Madison

361

(3)

To John Adams

364

(3)

The Federalist (1787-1788)

367

(10)

The Federalist No. 10

368

(5)

The Federalist No. 51

373

(4)

Phillis Wheatley (1754?-1784)

377

(8)

On Virtue

378

(1)

To the University of Cambridge, in New England

378

(1)

On Being Brought from Africa to America

379

(1)

On Imagination

379

(2)

To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works

381

(1)

Recollection

382

(1)

To His Excellency General Washington

383

(2)

Philip Freneau (1752-1832)

385

(10)

The Power of Fancy

386

(4)

The Hurricane

390

(1)

To Sir Toby

391

(2)

The Wild Honey Suckle

393

(1)

The Indian Burying Ground

393

(2)

On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature

395

(1)

William Bartram (1739-1823)

395

(17)

Travels through North and South Carolina...

397

(15)

Native American Voices II

412

(27)

A Son of the Forest

413

(7)

Crashing Thunder...

420

(2)

Story of the Indian

422

(2)

Pawnee Hero Stories

424

(1)

Legend of the Snake Order...

424

(4)

When the Coyote Married the Maiden

428

(4)

The Creation of the Horse

432

(1)

Poems

432

(3)

Orations

435

(4)

The Age of Romanticism

439

(704)

Washington Irving (1783-1859)

445

(45)

A History of New York

447

(6)

Diedrich Knickerbocker

The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

The Author's Account of Himself

453

(2)

Rip Van Winkle

455

(13)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

468

(22)

Thomas Bangs Thorpe (1815-1878)

490

(9)

The Big Bear of Arkansas

491

(8)

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

499

(43)

Preface to the Leather-Stocking Tales

502

(40)

The Deerslayer

504

(18)

The Pioneers

522

(13)

The Prairie

535

(7)

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)

542

(9)

Thanatopsis

544

(2)

To a Waterfowl

546

(1)

To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe

547

(1)

To the Fringed Gentian

547

(1)

The Prairies

548

(3)

Abraham Lincoln

551

(1)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

551

(61)

Sonnet---To Science

554

(1)

To Helen

554

(1)

The City in the Sea

555

(1)

Sonnet---Silence

556

(1)

Lenore

557

(1)

The Raven

558

(2)

Annabel Lee

560

(2)

Ligeia

562

(11)

The Fall of the House of Usher

573

(14)

The Purloined Letter

587

(16)

``Twice-Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne'' [A Review]

600

(3)

The Philosophy of Composition

603

(9)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

612

(70)

Nature

614

(28)

The American Scholar

642

(13)

Self-Reliance

655

(17)

The Rhodora

672

(1)

Each and All

673

(1)

Concord Hymn

674

(1)

The Problem

674

(2)

Ode

676

(3)

Hamatreya

679

(1)

Give All to Love

680

(1)

Days

681

(1)

Brahma

681

(1)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

682

(33)

Young Goodman Brown

685

(10)

The Minister's Black Veil

695

(9)

The Birth-Mark

704

(11)

Herman Melville (1819-1891)

715

(93)

Bartleby, the Scrivener

717

(26)

Billy Budd

743

(58)

The Portent

801

(1)

Shiloh

802

(1)

Malvern Hill

802

(1)

The College Colonel

803

(1)

The Æolian Harp

804

(2)

The Tuft of Kelp

806

(1)

The Maldive Shark

806

(1)

The Berg

806

(1)

Art

807

(1)

Greek Architecture

808

(1)

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

808

(111)

Civil Disobedience

810

(109)

Walden

827

(92)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

919

(9)

A Psalm of Life

920

(1)

The Arsenal at Springfield

921

(2)

The Jewish Cemetery at Newport

923

(2)

My Lost Youth

925

(2)

Aftermath

927

(1)

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls

927

(1)

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)

928

(7)

Massachusetts to Virginia

929

(3)

Ichabod

932

(1)

Skipper Ireson's Ride

933

(2)

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)

935

(17)

To the Dandelion

936

(16)

The Biglow Papers, First Series

938

(5)

A Fable for Critics

943

(9)

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

952

(41)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

953

(40)

Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895)

993

(19)

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

994

(18)

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

1012

(4)

To Horace Greeley

1013

(1)

Gettysburg Address

1014

(1)

Second Inaugural Address

1014

(2)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

1016

(107)

Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass

1018

(15)

Inscriptions

One's-Self I Sing

1033

(1)

When I Read the Book

1033

(1)

Song of Myself

1033

(49)

Children of Adam

Out of the rolling ocean the crowd

1080

(1)

Once I pass'd through a populous city

1081

(1)

Facing west from California's shores

1081

(1)

Calamus

I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing

1082

(1)

I hear it was charged against me

1082

(1)

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

1082

(25)

Sea-Drift

Out of the cradle endlessly rocking

1087

(5)

By the Roadside

When I heard the learn'd astronomer

1092

(1)

The Dalliance of the Eagles

1093

(1)

Drum-Taps

Beat! Beat! Drums!

1093

(1)

Cavalry Crossing a Ford

1094

(1)

Bivouac on a Mountain Side

1094

(1)

Vigil strange I kept on the field one night

1094

(1)

A march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown

1095

(1)

A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim

1096

(1)

The Wound-Dresser

1097

(2)

Memories of President Lincoln

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd

1099

(7)

Autumn Rivulets

There was a child went forth

1106

(1)

Passage to India

1107

(8)

The Sleepers

1115

(8)

Whispers of Heavenly Death

A noiseless patient spider

1122

(1)

From Noon to Starry Night

To a Locomotive in Winter

1122

(1)

Good-Bye My Fancy

L. of G.'s Purport

1123

(1)

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

1123

(20)

I never lost as much but twice

1125

(1)

Success is counted sweetest

1125

(1)

For each ecstatic instant

1126

(1)

These are the days when Birds come back

1126

(1)

A Wounded Deer---leaps highest

1127

(1)

``Faith'' is a fine invention

1127

(1)

The thought beneath so slight a film

1127

(1)

I taste a liquor never brewed

1127

(1)

Safe in their Alabaster Chambers

1128

(1)

I like a look of Agony

1128

(1)

Wild Nights---Wild Nights!

1128

(1)

There's a certain Slant of light

1129

(1)

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

1129

(1)

A Clock stopped

1130

(1)

The Soul selects her own Society

1130

(1)

A Bird came down the Walk

1131

(1)

I know that He exists

1131

(1)

After great pain, a formal feeling comes

1132

(1)

What Soft---Cherubic Creatures

1132

(1)

Much Madness is divinest Sense

1133

(1)

This is my letter to the World

1133

(1)

This was a Poet---It is That

1133

(1)

I died for Beauty---but was scarce

1133

(1)

I heard a Fly buzz---when I died

1134

(1)

It was not Death, for I stood up

1134

(1)

I like to see it lap the Miles

1135

(1)

I cannot live with You

1135

(2)

Pain---has an Element of Blank

1137

(1)

One need not be a Chamber---to be Haunted

1137

(1)

Publication---is the Auction

1137

(1)

Because I could not stop for Death

1138

(1)

Renunciation---is a piercing Virtue

1138

(1)

My life had stood---a Loaded Gun

1139

(1)

Presentiment---is that long Shadow---on the Lawn

1139

(1)

Death is a Dialogue between

1140

(1)

A narrow Fellow in the Grass

1140

(1)

I never saw a Moor

1140

(1)

The Bustle in a House

1141

(1)

Tell all the truth but tell it slant

1141

(1)

He preached upon ``Breadth'' till it argued him narrow

1141

(1)

A Route of Evanescence

1141

(1)

The Bible is an antique Volume

1142

(1)

Apparently with no surprise

1142

(1)

My life closed twice before its close

1142

(1)

The Age of Realism

1143

(412)

Mary E. Wilkins Freman (1852-1930)

1143

(16)

A New England Nun

1151

(8)

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

1159

(8)

A White Heron

1160

(7)

Bret Harte (1836-1902)

1167

(8)

Tennessee's Partner

1168

(7)

Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)

1175

(10)

How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox

1175

(2)

Free Joe and the Rest of the World

1177

(8)

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

1185

(195)

The Dandy Frightening the Squatter

1187

(1)

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

1188

(4)

Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech

1192

(4)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1196

(184)

William Dean Howells (1837-1920)

1380

(12)

Editha

1382

(10)

Henry James (1843-1916)

1392

(81)

Daisy Miller: A Study

1393

(40)

The Real Thing

1433

(18)

The Jolly Corner

1451

(22)

Kate Chopin (1851-1904)

1473

(6)

Neg Creol

1474

(5)

Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

1479

(27)

Black riders came from the sea

1480

(1)

In the desert

1480

(1)

A good in wrath

1481

(1)

Supposing that I should have the courage

1481

(1)

On the horizon the peaks assembled

1481

(1)

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind

1481

(1)

A man said to the universe

1482

(1)

A man adrift on a slim spar

1482

(1)

A Mystery of Heroism: A Detail of an American Battle

1483

(6)

The Open Boat

1489

(17)

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

1506

(17)

The Other Two

1509

(14)

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

1523

(22)

Free

1524

(21)

Henry Adams (1838-1918)

1545

(10)

The Education of Henry Adams

1546

(9)

Twentieth-Century Literature

1555

(777)

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

1562

(6)

Richard Cory

1563

(1)

Cliff Klingenhagen

1563

(1)

Miniver Cheevy

1564

(1)

How Annandale Went Out

1565

(1)

Eros Turannos

1565

(1)

Mr. Flood's Party

1566

(2)

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

1568

(17)

Mending Wall

1569

(1)

Home Burial

1570

(3)

After Apple-Picking

1573

(1)

The Road Not Taken

1574

(1)

An Old Man's Winter Night

1575

(1)

Birches

1575

(2)

The Oven Bird

1577

(1)

For Once, Then, Something

1577

(1)

Fire and Ice

1578

(1)

Design

1578

(1)

Nothing Gold Can Stay

1578

(1)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

1579

(1)

Acquainted with the Night

1579

(1)

West-Running Brook

1580

(2)

Desert Places

1582

(1)

Neither out Far Nor in Deep

1582

(1)

The Silken Tent

1583

(1)

Directive

1583

(2)

In Winter in the Woods Alone

1585

(1)

Willa Cather (1873-1947)

1585

(22)

Neighbour Rosicky

1586

(21)

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

1607

(25)

Three Lives

The Gentle Lena

1609

(21)

Susie Asado

1630

(1)

Picasso

1630

(2)

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)

1632

(9)

Death in the Woods

1633

(8)

Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)

1641

(32)

The Hairy Ape

1643

(30)

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

1673

(12)

Portrait d'une Femme

1674

(1)

Salutation

1675

(1)

A Pact

1676

(1)

In a Station of the Metro

1676

(1)

The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter

1676

(9)

High Selwyn Mauberley

[E. P. Ode pour l'Election de son Sepulchre]

1677

(1)

[The age demanded an image]

1678

(1)

[The tea-rose tea-gown, etc.]

1678

(1)

[These fought in any cause]

1679

(1)

[There dired a myriad]

1680

(1)

The Cantos

[And then went down to the ship]

1680

(3)

[With Usura]

1683

(1)

[What thou lovest well remains]

1684

(1)

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

1685

(32)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

1687

(3)

Preludes

1690

(2)

Gerontion

1692

(2)

The Waste Land

1694

(17)

Notes on ``The Waste Land''

1706

(5)

Journey of the Magi

1711

(1)

Burnt Norton

1712

(5)

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)

1717

(8)

[in Just-]

1718

(1)

[O sweet spontaneous]

1719

(1)

[Buffalo Bill's defunct]

1720

(1)

[the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls]

1720

(1)

[nobody loses all the time]

1721

(1)

[``next to of course god america i'']

1722

(1)

[my sweet old etcetera i'']

1722

(1)

[r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r]

1723

(1)

[anyone lived in a pretty how town]

1723

(1)

[pity this busy monster, manunkind]

1724

(1)

[1(a]

1725

(1)

Hart Crane (1899-1932)

1725

(15)

Chaplinesque

1727

(1)

At Melville's Tomb

1727

(1)

Voyages

1728

(12)

The Bridge

To Brooklyn Bridge

1730

(1)

Powhatan's Daughter

1731

(1)

The Harbor Dawn

1731

(1)

Van Winkle

1732

(2)

The River

1734

(4)

Atlantis

1738

(2)

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

1740

(12)

Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock

1742

(1)

Sunday Morning

1742

(1)

The Death of a Soldier

1742

(4)

Anecdote of the Jar

1746

(1)

A High-Toned Old Christian Woman

1746

(1)

The Emperor of Ice-Cream

1747

(1)

The Idea of Order at Key West

1748

(1)

Of Modern Poetry

1749

(1)

No Possum, No Sop, No Taters

1750

(1)

Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour

1751

(1)

The Plain Sense of Things

1751

(1)

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

1752

(16)

Con Brio

1753

(1)

Tract

1754

(2)

Danse Russe

1756

(1)

Queen-Anne's-Lace

1756

(1)

Spring and All

1757

(1)

To Elsie

1758

(1)

The Red Wheelbarrow

1759

(1)

At the Ball Game

1760

(1)

Between Walls

1761

(1)

This Is Just to Say

1761

(1)

The Yachts

1762

(1)

These

1763

(1)

Seafarer

1764

(1)

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

1764

(1)

The Use of Force

1765

(3)

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

1768

(10)

To a Steam Roller

1769

(1)

The Fish

1769

(1)

Poetry

1770

(1)

No Swan So Fine

1771

(1)

The Student

1772

(1)

The Pangolin

1773

(3)

The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing

1776

(1)

In Distrust of Merits

1777

(1)

Countee Cullen (1903-1946)

1778

(7)

Yet Do I Marvel

1779

(1)

For a Lady I Know

1780

(1)

From the Dark Tower

1780

(1)

A Brown Girl Dead

1781

(1)

Heritage

1781

(3)

Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song

1784

(1)

John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)

1785

(3)

Here Lies a Lady

1785

(1)

Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter

1786

(1)

Blue Girls

1787

(1)

Piazza Piece

1787

(1)

Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)

1788

(4)

Only the Dead Know Brooklyn

1789

(3)

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

1792

(29)

The Rich Boy

1794

(27)

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

1821

(23)

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

1822

(22)

William Faulkner (1897-1962)

1844

(20)

That Evening Sun

1846

(11)

A Rose for Emily

1857

(7)

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

1864

(9)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

1865

(1)

The Weary Blues

1865

(1)

Young Gal's Blues

1866

(1)

I, Too

1867

(1)

Note on Commercial Theatre

1867

(1)

Dream Boogie

1868

(1)

Harlem

1869

(1)

Theme for English B

1869

(1)

On the Road

1870

(3)

John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

1873

(14)

Flight

1874

(13)

Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)

1887

(10)

Flowering Judas

1888

(9)

Eudora Welty (1909- )

1897

(10)

Death of a Traveling Salesman

1898

(9)

Richard Wright (1908-1960)

1907

(9)

Eight Men

The Man Who Was Almost a Man

1908

(8)

Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)

1916

(12)

Invisible Man

Chapter 1

1917

(11)

Arthur Miller (1915- )

1928

(68)

Death of a Salesman

1931

(65)

Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)

1996

(4)

Open House

1997

(1)

Cuttings

1997

(1)

Cuttings (Later)

1997

(1)

Root Cellar

1998

(1)

My Papa's Waltz

1998

(1)

I Knew a Woman

1999

(1)

In a Dark Time

1999

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

2000

(14)

A Miracle for Breakfast

2001

(1)

The Fish

2002

(1)

Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance

2003

(2)

Visits to St. Elizabeths

2005

(2)

Sestina

2007

(1)

The Armadillo

2008

(2)

Brazil, January 1, 1502

2010

(1)

In the Waiting Room

2011

(2)

One Art

2013

(1)

Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

2014

(15)

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket

2015

(4)

Mr. Edwards and the Spider

2019

(2)

Memories of West Street and Lepke

2021

(1)

Skunk Hour

2022

(2)

For the Union Dead

2024

(2)

Waking Early Sunday Morning

2026

(2)

Will Not Come Back

2028

(1)

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

2029

(18)

Howl

2030

(8)

A Supermarket in California

2038

(1)

America

2039

(3)

American Change

2042

(2)

Mugging

2044

(3)

Anne Sexton (1928-1974)

2047

(8)

The Farmer's Wife

2047

(1)

Ringing the Bells

2048

(1)

All My Pretty Ones

2049

(1)

And One for My Dame

2050

(2)

The Addict

2052

(1)

2053

(1)

Rowing

2054

(1)

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

2055

(14)

All the Dead Dears

2056

(1)

Two Views of a Cadaver Room

2057

(1)

The Bee Meeting

2058

(2)

Lady Lazarus

2060

(2)

Ariel

2062

(1)

The Applicant

2063

(2)

Daddy;

2065

(2)

Fever 103°

2067

(2)

James Dickey (1923-1997)

2069

(9)

The Lifeguard

2070

(1)

Reincarnation (I)

2071

(1)

In the Mountain Tent

2072

(1)

Cherrylog Road

2073

(3)

The Shark's Parlor

2076

(2)

W. S. Merwin (1927- )

2078

(8)

Grandfather in the Old Men's Home

2079

(1)

The Drunk in the Furnace

2080

(1)

Noah's Raven

2080

(1)

The Dry Stone Mason

2081

(1)

Fly

2081

(1)

Strawberries

2082

(1)

Direction

2083

(1)

Thanks

2083

(1)

The Morning Train

2084

(2)

Louise Gluck (1943- )

2086

(6)

Hesitate to Call

2086

(1)

The Chicago Train

2087

(1)

The Edge

2087

(1)

My Neighbor in the Mirror

2087

(1)

Thanksgiving

2088

(1)

Mock Orange

2088

(1)

The Reproach

2089

(1)

Celestial Music

2090

(1)

Vespers

2091

(1)

Field Flowers

2092

(1)

James Baldwin (1924-1987)

2092

(23)

Sonny's Blues

2093

(22)

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

2115

(12)

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

2116

(11)

John Updike (1932- )

2127

(13)

Flight

2129

(11)

Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)

2140

(13)

The Magic Barrel

2141

(12)

Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (1934- )

2153

(6)

In Memory of Radio

2154

(1)

An Agony. As Now

2155

(1)

A Poem for Speculative Hipsters

2156

(1)

A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand

2156

(1)

A Poem for Half-White College Students

2157

(1)

Biography

2158

(1)

Rita Dove (1952- )

2159

(10)

Kentucky, 1833

2160

(1)

Adolescence-I

2161

(1)

Adolescence-II

2161

(1)

Adolescence-III

2161

(1)

Banneker

2162

(1)

Jiving

2163

(1)

The Zeppelin Factory

2164

(1)

Under the Viaduct, 1932

2165

(1)

Roast Possum

2166

(1)

Weathering Out

2167

(1)

Daystar

2168

(1)

Edward Albee (1928- )

2169

(18)

The Zoo Story

2170

(17)

Saul Bellow (1915- )

2187

A Silver Dish

2188

Joyce Carol Oates (1938- )

2028

(193)

How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life over Again

2209

(12)

Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)

2221

(3)

The School

2221

(3)

Ann Beattie (1947- )

2224

(11)

The Lawn Party

2225

(10)

Bobbie Ann Mason (1940- )

2235

(12)

Shiloh

2237

(10)

Gloria Naylor (1950- )

2247

(11)

The Women of Brewster Place

Lucielia Louise Turner

2248

(10)

Raymond Carver (1938-1988)

2258

(12)

Cathedral

2259

(11)

Sandra Cisneros (1954- )

2270

(3)

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories Mericans

2270

(3)

Louise Erdrich (1954- )

2273

(9)

Love Medicine

The Red Convertible (1974)

2275

(7)

Toni Morrison (1931- )

2282

(10)

Sula

1922

2283

(9)

David Mamet (1947- )

2292

(40)

House of Games

2294

(38)

Reference Works, Bibliographies

2332

(4)

Criticism, Literary and Cultural History

2336

(7)

Chronology

2343

(27)

Acknowledgments

2370

(9)

Index to Authors, Titles, and First Lines

2379

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