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American Literature 1865-19141

Introduction1

Timeline16

SAMUEL L. CLEMENS (Mark Twain) (1835-1910)18

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County21

Roughing It25

[The Story of the Old Ram]25

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn28

[The Art of Authorship]217

How to Tell a Story218

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences221

BRET HARTE (1836-1902)230

The Outcasts of Poker Flat231

W. D. HOWELLS (1837-1920)239

Novel-Writing and Novel-Reading241

Editha258

AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914?)268

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge269

NATIVE AMERICAN ORATORY275

COCHISE (c. 1812-1874)276

[I am alone]277

CHARLOT(c. 1831-1900)278

[He has filled graves with our bones]279

HENRY JAMES (1843-1916)281

Daisy Miller: A Study285

The Real Thing323

The Beast in the Jungle341

The Art of Fiction370

The Great Good Place385

The Jolly Corner402

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS (1848-1908)424

The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story426

Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox427

SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909)430

A White Heron431

The Foreigner438

KATE CHOPIN (1850-1904)455

At the 'Cadian Ball457

The Storm464

The Awakening467

MARY E.WILKINS FREEMAN (1852-1930)559

A New England Nun560

The Revolt of "Mother"568

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON (18567?-1915)579

Up From Slavery581

Chapter Ⅰ. A Slave Among Slaves581

Chapter Ⅱ. Boyhood Days589

Chapter ⅩⅣ. The Atlanta Exposition Address595

Chapter ⅩⅤ, The Secret of Success in Public Speaking603

CHARLES W. CHESNUTT (1858-1932)615

The Goophered Grapevine617

The Wife of His Youth624

CHARLES ALEXANDER EASTMAN (OHIYESA) (1858-1939)632

From the Deep Woods to Civilization633

Chapter Ⅵ. A Doctor among the Indians633

Chapter Ⅶ. The Ghost Dance War638

HAMLIN GARLAND (1860-1940)645

Under the Lion's Paw646

CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935)656

The Yellow Wall-paper657

Why 1 Wrote The Yellow Wall-paper?669

EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937)670

Souls Belated672

The Eves691

MARY AUSTIN (1868-1934)704

The Walking Woman706

W. E. B. DU BOIS (1868-1963)711

The Souls of Black Folk713

The Forethought713

Ⅰ. Of Our Spiritual Strivings714

Ⅲ. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others719

ⅩⅣ. The Sorrow Songs729

FRANK MORRIS (1870-1902)736

A Plea for Romantic Fiction738

STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)741

The Open Boat743

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky760

The Blue Hotel768

An Episode of War787

THEODORE DREISER (1871-1945)790

Old Rogaum and His Theresa792

JOHN M.OSKISON (1874-1947)805

The Problem of Old Harjo806

JACK LONDON (1876-1916)811

The Law of Life812

To Build a Fire817

NATIVE AMERICAN CHANTS AND SONGS828

THE NAVAJO NIGHT CHANT828

The Sacred Mountains829

Dance of the Atsalei, or Thundebirds831

CHIPPEWA SONGS834

Song of the Crows835

My Love Has Departed836

Love-Charm Song837

The Approach of the Storm838

The Sioux Women Gather Up Their Wounded838

The Sioux Woman Defends Her Children838

Song of the Captive Sioux Woman839

GHOST DANCE SONGS839

Songs of the Arapaho840

[Father, have pity on me]840

[When I met him approaching]841

Songs of the Sioux842

|The father say so]842

[Give me my knife]842

[The whole world is coming]843

WOVOKA(c. 1856-1932)843

The Messiah Letter: Cheyenne Version845

The Messiah Letter: Mooney's Free Rendering846

GERTRUDE SIMMONS BONNIN (Zitkala Sa) (1876-1938)846

Impressions of an Indian Childhood848

The School Days of an Indian Girl860

An Indian Teacher among Indians870

HENRY ADAMS (1838-1918)875

The Education of Henry Adams877

Editor's Preface877

Preface879

Chapter Ⅰ. Quincy (1838-1848)880

Chapter ⅩⅨ. Chaos (1870)892

Chapter ⅩⅩⅤ. The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900)902

American Literature between the Wars, 1914—1945911

Introduction911

Timeline922

BLACK ELK (1863-1950) and JOHN G. NEIHARDT (1881-1973)924

Black Elk Speaks925

Ⅲ. The Great Vision925

EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1868-1950)937

Serepta Mason938

Trainor, the Druggist938

Doc Hill939

Margaret Fuller Slack939

Abel Melveny939

Lucinda Matlock940

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)941

Luke Havergal941

The House on the Hill942

Richard Cory943

Credo943

Miniver Cheevy944

Eros Turannos945

Mr. Flood's Party946

WILLACATHER (1873-1947)947

My Antonia949

AMY LOWELL (1874-1925)1084

The Captured Goddess1085

Venus Transiens1086

Madonna of the Evening Flowers1087

September, 19181088

Meeting-House Hill1088

Summer Night Piece1089

St. Louis1089

New Heavens for Old1090

GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946)1091

The Making of Americans1093

[Introduction]1093

Tender Buttons1105

Objects1105

ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)1115

The Pasture1117

Mowing1117

The Tuft of Flowers1117

Mending Wall1119

The Death of the Hired Man1120

Home Burial1124

After Apple-Picking1127

The Wood-Pile1128

The Road Not Taken1128

An Old Man's Winter Night1129

The Oven Bird1130

Birches1130

"Out, Out—"1131

Fire and Ice1132

Nothing Gold Can Stay1132

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening1133

A Boundless Moment1133

Spring Pools1133

Once by the Pacific1134

Two Tramps in Mud Time1134

Departmental1136

Desert Places1137

Design1137

Neither out Far nor in Deep1138

Provide, Provide1138

The Gift Outright1139

Directive1139

The Figure a Poem Makes1141

SHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941)1143

WINESBURG, OHIO1144

Mother1144

Adventure1149

"Queer"1154

CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967)1160

Chicago1161

Halsted Street Car1162

Child of the Romans1162

Fog1163

Prairie Waters by Night1163

Cool Tombs1163

Grass1164

WALLACE STEVENS (1879-195 5)1164

The Snow Man1166

A High-Toned Old Christian Woman1166

The Emperor of Ice-Cream1167

Disillusionment of Ten O'clock1167

Sunday Morning1168

Anecdote of the Jar1171

Gubbinal1171

Peter Quince at the Clavier1172

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird1174

The Death of a Soldier1175

The Idea of Order at Key West1176

A Postcard from the Volcano1177

Study of Two Pears1178

The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man1179

Of Modern Poetry1179

Asides on the Oboe1180

An Ordinary Evening in New Haven1181

Ⅰ ("The eyes plain version is a thing apart")1181

Ⅸ ("We keep coming back and coming back")1181

ⅩⅡ ("The poem is the cry of its occasion")1182

ⅩⅩⅡ ("Professor Eucalyptus said, The search' ")1182

ⅩⅩⅧ ("If it should be true that reality exists")1183

ⅩⅩⅩ ("The last leaf that is going to fall has fallen")1183

The Plain Sense of Things1184

ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE (1880-1958)1185

The Closing Door1186

ANZIA YEZIERSKA(1880?-1970)1202

The Lost "Beautifulness"1204

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963)1214

The Young Housewife1216

Portrait of a Lady1217

Willow Poem1217

Queen-Anne's-Lace1218

The Widow's Lament in Springtime1218

Spring and All1219

To Elsie1220

The Red Wheelbarrow1221

The Dead Baby1222

The Wind Increases1222

Death1223

This Is Just to Say1224

A Sort of a Song1225

The Dance ("In Brueghel's great picture, The Kermess")1225

Burning the Christmas Greens1225

Lear1227

The Ivy Crown1228

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus1230

The Dance ("When the snow falls the flakes")1231

EZRA POUND (1885-1972)1232

To Whistler, American1234

Portrait d'une Femme1234

A Virginal1235

A Pact1235

The Rest1236

In a Station of the Metro1236

The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter1236

Villanelle: The Psychological Hour1237

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts)1239

THE CANTOS1246

Ⅰ ("And then went down to the ship")1246

ⅩⅦ ("So that the vines burst from my fingers")1248

XLV ("With Usitra")1251

H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) (1886-1961)1253

Mid-day1254

Oread1255

Leda1255

At Baia1256

Fragment 1131257

Helen1258

The Walls Do Not Fall1259

1-61259

20-241264

39-431267

ROBINSON JEFFFRS (1887-1962)1270

To the Stone-Cutters1271

Shine, Perishing Republic1271

Hurt Hawks1272

November Surf1273

Carmel Point1273

Vulture1274

Birds and Fishes1274

MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972)1275

Poetry1276

A Grave1277

To a Snail1278

What Are Years?1278

Bird-Witted1279

The Paper Nautilus1280

Nevertheless1281

The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing1282

In Distrust of Merits1283

A Face1285

"Keeping Their World Large"1286

O to Be a Dragon1286

EUGENE O'NEILL (1888-1953)1287

Long Day's Journey into Night1289

T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)1368

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock1370

Sweeney among the Nightingales1373

From Tradition and the Individual Talent1375

Gerontion1378

The Waste Land1380

The Hollow Men1393

Journey of the Magi1395

FOUR QUARTETS1397

Burnt Norton1397

JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888-1974)1401

Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter1402

Here Lies a Lady1403

Philomela1403

Piazza Piece1404

Janet Waking1405

CLAUDE McKAY (1889-1948)1406

Exhortation: Summer, 19191407

Outcast1407

Africa1408

The Harlem Dancer1408

The Lynching1408

Harlem Shadows1409

America1409

If We Must Die1410

O Word I Love to Sing1410

Moscow1410

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1890-1980)1411

Flowering Judas1412

Theft1421

ZORANEALE HURSTON (1891-1960)1426

The Eatonville Anthology1427

How It Feels to Be Colored Me1436

The Gilded Six-Bits1439

Their Eves Were Watching God1447

Chapter 21448

Chapter 31450

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)1456

Reeuerdo1457

I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently1457

[I, being born a woman]1458

Apostrophe to Man1458

I Too beneath Your Moon, Almighty Sex1458

The Snow Storm1459

I Forgot for a Moment1459

[I will put Chaos into fourteen lines]1460

DOROTHY PARKER (1893-1967)1460

De Profundis1461

Resume1461

General Review of the Sex Situation1462

The Waltz1462

GENEVIEVE TAGGARD (1894-1948)1465

Everyday Alchemy1466

With Child1467

Return of the Native1467

A Middle-aged, Middle-class Woman at Midnight1467

At Last the Women Are Moving1468

O People Misshapen1469

Mill Town1469

To My Mother1470

JAMES THURBER (1894-1961)1470

The Night the Bed Fell1471

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty1474

E. E. CUMM1NGS (1894-1962)1478

Thy fingers make early flowers of1479

in just1479

O sweet spontaneous1480

Buffalo Bill's1481

the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls1481

Poem or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal1481

"next to of course god america i1483

i sing of Olaf glad and big1483

if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself )have1484

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond1485

anyone lived in a pretty how town1485

my father moved through dooms of love1486

pity this busy monster, manunkind1488

what if a much of a which of a wind1489

JEAN TOOMER (1894-1967)1489

Cane1490

Georgia Dusk1490

Fern1491

Portrait in Georgia1494

Seventh Street1494

F.SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940)1495

Babylon Revisited1496

JOHN DOS PASSOS (1896-1970)1511

U.S.A.1512

The Big Money1512

Newsreel LXVIII1512

The Camera Eve (51)1514

Mary French1515

WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962)1532

As I Lay Dying1534

Barn Burning1630

LOUISE BOGAN (1897-1970)1643

Medusa1644

Portrait1644

The Alchemist1645

The Crows1645

Women1645

Cassandra1646

Evening in the Sanitarium1646

HART CRANE (1899-1932)1647

Chaplinesque1649

At Melville's Tomb1649

Voyages1650

Ⅰ ("Above the fresh ruffles of the surf")1650

Ⅱ ("Infinite consanguinity it bears—")1651

Ⅴ ("Meticulous, past midnight in clear rime")1651

THE BRIDGE1652

ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961)1685

The Snows of Kilimanjaro1687

THOMAS WOLFE (1900-1938)1704

The Lost Boy1705

STERLING A. BROWN (1901-1989)1725

Mister Samuel and Sam1726

He Was a Man1727

Master and Man1728

Break of Day1729

Bitter Fruit of the Tree1730

LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)1730

The Negro Speaks of Rivers1731

Mother to Son1732

The Weary Blues1732

I, Too1733

Mulatto1734

Song for a Dark Girl1735

Vagabonds1735

Genius Child1736

Refugee in America1736

Madam and Her Madam1736

Madam's Calling Cards1737

Silhouette1738

Visitors to the Black Belt1738

Note on Commercial Theatre1739

Democracy1739

JOHN STEINBECK (1902-1968)1740

The Leader of the People1741

COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946)1751

Yet Do I Marvel1752

Incident1752

Heritage1753

From the Dark Tower1755

Uncle Jim1756

RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960)1756

The Man Who Was Almost a Man1758

MURIEL RUKEYSER (1913-1980)1766

Effort at Speech Between Two People1767

Movie1768

Alloy1769

Suicide Blues1769

Who in One Lifetime1770

"Long Enough"1771

The Poem as Mask1771

Poem1772

Painters1772

American Prose since 19451773

Introduction1773

Timeline1783

EUDORA WLLTY(b. 1909)1784

Petrified Man1785

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911-1983)1794

A Streetcar Named Desire1797

JOHN CHEEVER (1912-1982)1860

The Swimmer1862

BERNARD MALAMUD (1914-1986)1870

The Magic Barrel1871

RALPH ELLISON (1914-1994)1883

Invisible Man1884

Prologue1884

Chapter I [Battle Royal]1891

SAUL BELLOW (b. 1915)1901

Looking for Mr. Green1903

ARTHUR MILLER (b. 1915)1917

Death of a Salesman1919

GRACE PALEY (b. 1922)1985

A Conversation with My Father1986

KURT VONNEGUT(b. 1922)1990

Fates Worse Than Death1991

JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987)1999

Going to Meet the Man2000

FLANNERY O'CONNOR (1925-1964)2011

The Life You Save May Be Your Own2012

Good Country People2020

GORE VIDAL(b. 1925)2034

The Robin2035

URSULA K. LE GUIN (b. 1929)2038

Schrodinger's Cat2039

She Unnames Them2044

PAULE MARSHALL (b. 1929)2046

Reena2047

DONALD BARTHELME (1931-1989)2060

A Manual for Sons2061

TONI MORRISON (b. 1931)2077

Recitatif2078

JOHN UPDIKE (b. 1932)2092

Separating2096

PHILIP ROTH (b. 1933)2101

Defender of the Faith2103

AMIRI BARAKA(LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934)2124

Dutchman2126

An Agony. As Now.2139

A Poem for Willie Best2140

Will They Cry When You're Gone, You Bet2145

N. SCOTT MOMADAY (b. 1934)2146

The Way to Rainy Mountain2147

Headwaters2147

Introduction2147

Ⅳ2151

ⅩⅢ2152

ⅩⅦ2153

ⅩⅩⅣ2154

Epilogue2154

Rainy Mountain Cemetery2156

GERALD VIZENOR(b. 1934)2157

Almost Browne2158

STEPHEN DIXON (b. 1936)2163

Time to Go2164

CLARENCE MAJOR (b. 1936)2174

An Area in the Cerebral Hemisphere2175

THOMAS PYNCHON (b. 1937)2179

Entropy2180

JOANNA RUSS(b. 1937)2190

When It Changed2191

RAYMOND CARVER (1938-1988)2197

Cathedral2197

ISHMAEL REED (b. 1938)2209

The Last Days of Louisiana Red2209

Chapter 36 [Mary Dalton's Dream]2209

Neo-HooDoo Manifesto2213

TONI CADE BAMBARA (1939-1995)2218

Medley2219

MAXINE HONG KINGSTON (b. 1940)2230

Tripmaster Monkey2232

1. Trippers and Askers2232

DIANE GLANCY (b. 1941)2257

Jack Wilson or Wovoka and Christ My Lord2258

Polar Breath2261

BARRY HANNAH (b. 1942)2264

Midnight and I'm Not Famous Yet2265

ALICE WALKER (b. 1944)2273

Everyday Use2274

ANNIE DILLARD (b. 1945)2280

Holy the Firm2281

ANN BEATTIE (b. 1947)2300

Weekend2302

DAVID MAMET (b. 1947)2313

Glengarry Glen Ross2315

LESLIE MARMON SILKO (b. 1948)2348

Lullaby2349

DENISE CHAVEZ (b. 1948)2355

The Last of the Menu Girls2356

SANDRA CISNEROS(b. 1954)2374

My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn2375

Eleven2376

Salvador Late or Early2378

Barbie-Q2379

Mericans2380

Tepeyac2382

LOUISE ERDRICH (b. 1954)2384

Fleur2385

WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN (b. 1959)2394

Red Hands2395

American Poetry since 19452403

Introduction2403

Timeline2413

LORINE NIEDECKER (1903-1970)2415

Poet's Work2416

[I married]2417

My Life by Water2417

Lake Superior2418

[Well, spring overflows the land]2421

ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905-1989)2422

Bearded Oaks2424

Audubon2425

Ⅰ. Was Not the Lost Dauphin2425

Ⅵ. Love and Knowledge2426

Ⅶ. Tell Me a Story2426

American Portrait: Old Style2427

Acquaintance with Time in Early Autumn2430

Mortal Limit2432

After the Dinner Party2432

GEORGE OPPEN (1908-1984)2433

Party on Shipboard2435

[She lies, hip high]2435

The Hills2435

Workman2436

Psalm2436

From Of Being Numerous2437

Anniversary Poem2444

THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963)2445

Cuttings2447

Cuttings (later)2447

Weed Puller2447

Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze2448

My Papa's Waltz2449

Night Crow2449

The Lost Son2449

The Waking2454

I Knew a Woman2454

The Far Field2455

Wish for a Young Wife2458

In a Dark Time2458

CHARLES OLSON (1910-1970)2459

THE MAXIMUS POEMS2460

I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You2460

Maximus, to Himself2464

[When do poppies bloom]2465

Celestial Evening, October 19672466

ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979)2467

The Unbeliever2469

The Fish2469

Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance2471

The Bight2473

At the Fishhouses2474

Questions of Travel2476

The Armadillo2477

Sestina2478

In the Waiting Room2479

The Moose2481

One Art2485

ROBERT HAYDEN (1913-1980)2486

Middle Passage2488

Homage to the Empress of the Blues2492

Those Winter Sundays2493

The Night-Blooming Cereus2493

Free Fantasia: Tiger Flowers2495

Beginnings2496

Elegies for Paradise Valley2497

RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965)2501

90 North2502

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner2503

Second Air Force2504

The Marchen2505

Next Day2507

Well Water2509

Thinking of the Lost World2509

JOHN BERRYMAN (1914-1972)2511

Homage to Mistress Bradstreet2513

17-392513

DREAM SONGS2519

1 ("Huffy Henry hid the day")2519

14("Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so")2520

29("There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart")2520

40("I'm scared a lonely. Never see my son")2521

45 ("He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back")2521

384 ("The marker slants, flowerless, day's almost done")2522

385 ("My daughter's heavier. Light leaves are flying")2523

ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977)2523

Colloquy in Black Rock2525

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket2526

Mr. Edwards and the Spider2530

My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow2531

Memories of West Street and Lepke2534

Skunk Hour2536

Night Sweat2537

For the Union Dead2538

Death of Anne Boleyn2540

Returning Turtle2540

Epilogue2540

GWENDOLYN BROOKS (b. 1917)2541

A STREET IN BRONZEVILLE2542

kitchenette building2542

the mother2543

a song in the front yard2544

The White Troops Had Their Orders But the Negroes Looked Like Men2544

The Womanhood2545

The Children of the Poor (Ⅱ)2545

We Real Cool2545

The Bean Eaters2545

A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon2546

The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till2549

The Blackstone Rangers2549

To the Diaspora2551

The Coora Flower2552

ROBERT DUNCAN (1919-1988)2552

Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow2555

A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar2556

Doves2563

Achilles' Song2565

Interrupted Forms2566

RICHARD WILBUR (b. 1921)2567

The Beautiful Changes2568

The Death of a Toad2569

Ceremony2569

"A World without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness"2570

Years-End2571

Love Calls Us to the Things of This World2571

The Mind-Reader2572

JAMES DICKEY (1923-1997)2576

Drowning with Others2577

The Heaven of Animals2578

Falling2579

DENISE LEVERTOV (1923-1997)2583

To the Snake2585

The Jacob's Ladder2585

In Mind2586

September 19612587

Olga Poems2588

Ⅲ2588

1("Everything flows")2588

2("Now as if smoke or sweetness were blown my way")2588

3("Black one, incubus—")2589

Ⅵ ("Your eyes were the brown gold of pebbles under water")2589

What Were They Like?2590

Death in Mexico2591

Zeroing In2592

Caedmon2593

A. R. AMMONS (b. 1926)2594

So I Said I Am Ezra2595

Corsons Inlet2596

Grace Abounding2599

Easter Morning2599

Singling ＆ Doubling Together2602

The Dwelling2602

Garbage2603

22603

JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995)2607

An Urban Convalescence2608

The Broken Home2610

Lost in Translation2613

Family Week at Oracle Ranch2618

ROBERT GREELEY (b. 1926)2623

Kore2625

The Door2626

For Love2628

The Messengers2629

For No Clear Reason2630

The Birds2630

Fathers2631

ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997)2632

Howl2634

A Supermarket in California2641

Sunflower Sutra2642

To Aunt Rose2643

On Burroughs' Work2644

Ego Confession2645

FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)2646

To the Harbormaster2647

In Memory of My Feelings2648

A Step Away from Them2652

The Day Lady Died2654

Ave Maria2654

GALWAY KINNELL (b. 1927)2655

The Porcupine2656

Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight2659

Saint Francis and the Sow2662

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps2663

Cemetery Angels2663

JOHN ASHBERY(b. 1927)2663

Illustration2665

Soonest Mended2666

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror2668

The Lament upon the Waters2679

Myrtle2680

W. S. MERW1N (b. 1927)2681

The Drunk in the Furnace2682

For the Anniversary of My Death2682

For a Coming Extinction2683

September Plowing2684

Lonsing a Language2684

Lament for the Makers2685

JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980)2691

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio2692

To the Evening Star: Central Minnesota2693

A Blessing2693

A Centenary Ode: Inscribed to Little Crow, Leader of the Sioux Rebellion in Minnesota, 18622694

With the Shell of a Hermit Crab2695

The Journey2695

PHILIP LEVINE(b. 1928)2696

Animals Are Passing from Our Lives2697

Detroit Grease Shop Poem2698

They Feed They Lion2699

On the Murder of Lieutenant Jose del Castillo by the Falangist Bravo Martinez, July 12, 19362700

Starlight2701

Fear and Fame2701

The Simple Truth2702

ANNE SEXTON'(1928-1974)2703

The Truth the Dead Know2704

The Starry Night2705

Sylvias Death2705

Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman2707

The Death of the Fathers2709

2. How We Danced2709

3. The Boat2710

ADRIENNE RICH (b. 1929)2711

Storm Warnings2713

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law2714

"I Am in Danger-Sir—"2718

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning2719

Diving into the Wreck2719

Power2721

Transcendental Etude2722

For a Friend in Travail2726

An Atlas of the Difficult World2727

Ⅱ ("Here is a map of our country")2727

Ⅳ("Late summers, early autumns, you can see something that binds")2727

Ⅴ("Catch if you can your country's moment, begin")2728

Ⅸ ("On this early, in this life, as I read your story, you're lonely")2729

ⅩⅡ("What homage will be paid to a beauty built to last")2730

ⅩⅢ(Dedications)2730

GARY SNYDER (b. 1930)2731

Milton by Firelight2733

Riprap2734

August on Sourdough, A Visit from Dick Brewer2734

Beneath My Hand and Eye the Distant Hills. Your Body2735

The Blue Sky2736

Straight-Creek—Great Burn2740

Ripples on the Surface2742

SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963)2742

Morning Song2744

Lady Lazarus2744

Ariel2747

Daddy2748

Words2750

Blackberrving2750

Purdah2751

The Applicant2753

Child2754

AUDRE LORDE (1934-1992)2754

Coal2756

The Woman Thing2756

Black Mother Woman2757

Separation2758

Harriet2758

Chain2759

MARY OLIVER (b. 1935)2761

The Black Snake2762

In Blackwater Woods2763

A Visitor2764

Landscape2764

Picking Blueberries, Austerlitz, New York, 19572765

Hawk2766

Poppies2767

Hummingbird Pauses at the Trumpet Vine2768

MICHAEL S. HARPER (b. 1938)2769

Dear John, Dear Coltrane2770

American History2771

Deathwatch2772

Martin's Blues2773

"Bird Lives": Charles Parker in St. Louis2773

Nightmare Begins Responsibility2775

Tongue-Tied in Black and White2775

ROBERT PINSKY(b. 1940)2777

The Figured Wheel2779

The Street2780

A Woman2782

The Want Bone2784

Shirt2784

At Pleasure Bay2786

SIMON J. ORTIZ (b. 1941)2788

Passing through Little Rock2789

Earth and Rain, the Plants ＆ Sun2789

Vision Shadows2791

Poems from the Veterans Hospital2792

8:50 AM Ft. Lyons YAH2792

Travelling2792

From Sand Creek2793

LOUISE GLUCK(b. 1943)2794

The Drowned Children2795

Descending Figure2796

2. The Sick Child2796

3. For My Sister2796

Illuminations2797

Terminal Resemblance2798

Appearances2799

Vespers2800

JOY HARJO(b. 1951)2800

Call It Fear2802

White Bear2803

She Had Some Horses2804

Ⅲ. Drowning Horses2804

Summer Night2804

Eagle Poem2805

Climbing the Streets of Worcester, Mass.2806

The Flood2806

RITA DOVE (b. 1952)2808

Geometry2810

Adolescence—Ⅰ2810

Adolescence—Ⅱ2811

Adolescence—Ⅲ2811

Banneker2812

Parsley2813

THOMAS AND BKULAH2815

'The Event2815

Straw Hat2816

The Zeppelin Factory2816

Dusting2817

Pomade2818

Poem in Which I Refuse Contemplation2819

Heroes2820

Missing2821

ALBERTO RIOS (b. 1952)2822

Madre Sofia2822

Wet Camp2824

Taking Away the Name of a Nephew2824

Advice to a First Cousin2826

Seniors2826

Domingo Limon2827

LORNA DEE CERVANTES (b. 1954)2830

Uncle's First Rabbit2831

For Virginia Chavez2833

Visions of Mexico While at a Writing Symposium in Port Townsend,Washington2834

The Body as Braille2836

Emplumada2836

My Dinner with Your Memory2837

CATHY SONG (b. 1955)2837

The White Porch2838

Beauty and Sadness2840

Lost Sister2841

Chinatown2842

Heaven2845

LI-YOUNG LEE (b. 1957)2846

The Gift2847

Persimmons2848

Eating Alone2850

Eating Together2850

Mnemonic2851

This Room and Everything in It2851

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES2853

PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS2895

INDEX2905