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American Literature 1865-1914 1

Introduction 1

Timeline 16

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

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 21

Roughing It 25

[The Story of the Old Ram] 25

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 28

[The Art of Authorship] 217

How to Tell a Story 218

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences 221

BRET HARTE (1836-1902) 230

The Outcasts of Poker Flat 231

W. D. HOWELLS (1837-1920) 239

Novel-Writing and Novel-Reading 241

Editha 258

AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914?) 268

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 269

NATIVE AMERICAN ORATORY 275

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 Study 285

The Real Thing 323

The Beast in the Jungle 341

The Art of Fiction 370

The Great Good Place 385

The Jolly Corner 402

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS (1848-1908) 424

The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story 426

Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox 427

SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909) 430

A White Heron 431

The Foreigner 438

KATE CHOPIN (1850-1904) 455

At the 'Cadian Ball 457

The Storm 464

The Awakening 467

MARY E.WILKINS FREEMAN (1852-1930) 559

A New England Nun 560

The Revolt of "Mother" 568

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON (18567?-1915) 579

Up From Slavery 581

Chapter Ⅰ. A Slave Among Slaves 581

Chapter Ⅱ. Boyhood Days 589

Chapter ⅩⅣ. The Atlanta Exposition Address 595

Chapter ⅩⅤ, The Secret of Success in Public Speaking 603

CHARLES W. CHESNUTT (1858-1932) 615

The Goophered Grapevine 617

The Wife of His Youth 624

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

From the Deep Woods to Civilization 633

Chapter Ⅵ. A Doctor among the Indians 633

Chapter Ⅶ. The Ghost Dance War 638

HAMLIN GARLAND (1860-1940) 645

Under the Lion's Paw 646

CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935) 656

The Yellow Wall-paper 657

Why 1 Wrote The Yellow Wall-paper? 669

EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937) 670

Souls Belated 672

The Eves 691

MARY AUSTIN (1868-1934) 704

The Walking Woman 706

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

The Souls of Black Folk 713

The Forethought 713

Ⅰ. Of Our Spiritual Strivings 714

Ⅲ. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others 719

ⅩⅣ. The Sorrow Songs 729

FRANK MORRIS (1870-1902) 736

A Plea for Romantic Fiction 738

STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900) 741

The Open Boat 743

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky 760

The Blue Hotel 768

An Episode of War 787

THEODORE DREISER (1871-1945) 790

Old Rogaum and His Theresa 792

JOHN M.OSKISON (1874-1947) 805

The Problem of Old Harjo 806

JACK LONDON (1876-1916) 811

The Law of Life 812

To Build a Fire 817

NATIVE AMERICAN CHANTS AND SONGS 828

THE NAVAJO NIGHT CHANT 828

The Sacred Mountains 829

Dance of the Atsalei, or Thundebirds 831

CHIPPEWA SONGS 834

Song of the Crows 835

My Love Has Departed 836

Love-Charm Song 837

The Approach of the Storm 838

The Sioux Women Gather Up Their Wounded 838

The Sioux Woman Defends Her Children 838

Song of the Captive Sioux Woman 839

GHOST DANCE SONGS 839

Songs of the Arapaho 840

[Father, have pity on me] 840

[When I met him approaching] 841

Songs of the Sioux 842

|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 Version 845

The Messiah Letter: Mooney's Free Rendering 846

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

Impressions of an Indian Childhood 848

The School Days of an Indian Girl 860

An Indian Teacher among Indians 870

HENRY ADAMS (1838-1918) 875

The Education of Henry Adams 877

Editor's Preface 877

Preface 879

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—1945 911

Introduction 911

Timeline 922

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

Black Elk Speaks 925

Ⅲ. The Great Vision 925

EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1868-1950) 937

Serepta Mason 938

Trainor, the Druggist 938

Doc Hill 939

Margaret Fuller Slack 939

Abel Melveny 939

Lucinda Matlock 940

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935) 941

Luke Havergal 941

The House on the Hill 942

Richard Cory 943

Credo 943

Miniver Cheevy 944

Eros Turannos 945

Mr. Flood's Party 946

WILLACATHER (1873-1947) 947

My Antonia 949

AMY LOWELL (1874-1925) 1084

The Captured Goddess 1085

Venus Transiens 1086

Madonna of the Evening Flowers 1087

September, 1918 1088

Meeting-House Hill 1088

Summer Night Piece 1089

St. Louis 1089

New Heavens for Old 1090

GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946) 1091

The Making of Americans 1093

[Introduction] 1093

Tender Buttons 1105

Objects 1105

ROBERT FROST (1874-1963) 1115

The Pasture 1117

Mowing 1117

The Tuft of Flowers 1117

Mending Wall 1119

The Death of the Hired Man 1120

Home Burial 1124

After Apple-Picking 1127

The Wood-Pile 1128

The Road Not Taken 1128

An Old Man's Winter Night 1129

The Oven Bird 1130

Birches 1130

"Out, Out—" 1131

Fire and Ice 1132

Nothing Gold Can Stay 1132

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 1133

A Boundless Moment 1133

Spring Pools 1133

Once by the Pacific 1134

Two Tramps in Mud Time 1134

Departmental 1136

Desert Places 1137

Design 1137

Neither out Far nor in Deep 1138

Provide, Provide 1138

The Gift Outright 1139

Directive 1139

The Figure a Poem Makes 1141

SHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941) 1143

WINESBURG, OHIO 1144

Mother 1144

Adventure 1149

"Queer" 1154

CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967) 1160

Chicago 1161

Halsted Street Car 1162

Child of the Romans 1162

Fog 1163

Prairie Waters by Night 1163

Cool Tombs 1163

Grass 1164

WALLACE STEVENS (1879-195 5) 1164

The Snow Man 1166

A High-Toned Old Christian Woman 1166

The Emperor of Ice-Cream 1167

Disillusionment of Ten O'clock 1167

Sunday Morning 1168

Anecdote of the Jar 1171

Gubbinal 1171

Peter Quince at the Clavier 1172

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 1174

The Death of a Soldier 1175

The Idea of Order at Key West 1176

A Postcard from the Volcano 1177

Study of Two Pears 1178

The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man 1179

Of Modern Poetry 1179

Asides on the Oboe 1180

An Ordinary Evening in New Haven 1181

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 Things 1184

ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE (1880-1958) 1185

The Closing Door 1186

ANZIA YEZIERSKA(1880?-1970) 1202

The Lost "Beautifulness" 1204

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963) 1214

The Young Housewife 1216

Portrait of a Lady 1217

Willow Poem 1217

Queen-Anne's-Lace 1218

The Widow's Lament in Springtime 1218

Spring and All 1219

To Elsie 1220

The Red Wheelbarrow 1221

The Dead Baby 1222

The Wind Increases 1222

Death 1223

This Is Just to Say 1224

A Sort of a Song 1225

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

Burning the Christmas Greens 1225

Lear 1227

The Ivy Crown 1228

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 1230

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

EZRA POUND (1885-1972) 1232

To Whistler, American 1234

Portrait d'une Femme 1234

A Virginal 1235

A Pact 1235

The Rest 1236

In a Station of the Metro 1236

The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter 1236

Villanelle: The Psychological Hour 1237

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts) 1239

THE CANTOS 1246

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-day 1254

Oread 1255

Leda 1255

At Baia 1256

Fragment 113 1257

Helen 1258

The Walls Do Not Fall 1259

1-6 1259

20-24 1264

39-43 1267

ROBINSON JEFFFRS (1887-1962) 1270

To the Stone-Cutters 1271

Shine, Perishing Republic 1271

Hurt Hawks 1272

November Surf 1273

Carmel Point 1273

Vulture 1274

Birds and Fishes 1274

MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972) 1275

Poetry 1276

A Grave 1277

To a Snail 1278

What Are Years? 1278

Bird-Witted 1279

The Paper Nautilus 1280

Nevertheless 1281

The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing 1282

In Distrust of Merits 1283

A Face 1285

"Keeping Their World Large" 1286

O to Be a Dragon 1286

EUGENE O'NEILL (1888-1953) 1287

Long Day's Journey into Night 1289

T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965) 1368

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 1370

Sweeney among the Nightingales 1373

From Tradition and the Individual Talent 1375

Gerontion 1378

The Waste Land 1380

The Hollow Men 1393

Journey of the Magi 1395

FOUR QUARTETS 1397

Burnt Norton 1397

JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888-1974) 1401

Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter 1402

Here Lies a Lady 1403

Philomela 1403

Piazza Piece 1404

Janet Waking 1405

CLAUDE McKAY (1889-1948) 1406

Exhortation: Summer, 1919 1407

Outcast 1407

Africa 1408

The Harlem Dancer 1408

The Lynching 1408

Harlem Shadows 1409

America 1409

If We Must Die 1410

O Word I Love to Sing 1410

Moscow 1410

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1890-1980) 1411

Flowering Judas 1412

Theft 1421

ZORANEALE HURSTON (1891-1960) 1426

The Eatonville Anthology 1427

How It Feels to Be Colored Me 1436

The Gilded Six-Bits 1439

Their Eves Were Watching God 1447

Chapter 2 1448

Chapter 3 1450

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950) 1456

Reeuerdo 1457

I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently 1457

[I, being born a woman] 1458

Apostrophe to Man 1458

I Too beneath Your Moon, Almighty Sex 1458

The Snow Storm 1459

I Forgot for a Moment 1459

[I will put Chaos into fourteen lines] 1460

DOROTHY PARKER (1893-1967) 1460

De Profundis 1461

Resume 1461

General Review of the Sex Situation 1462

The Waltz 1462

GENEVIEVE TAGGARD (1894-1948) 1465

Everyday Alchemy 1466

With Child 1467

Return of the Native 1467

A Middle-aged, Middle-class Woman at Midnight 1467

At Last the Women Are Moving 1468

O People Misshapen 1469

Mill Town 1469

To My Mother 1470

JAMES THURBER (1894-1961) 1470

The Night the Bed Fell 1471

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 1474

E. E. CUMM1NGS (1894-1962) 1478

Thy fingers make early flowers of 1479

in just 1479

O sweet spontaneous 1480

Buffalo Bill's 1481

the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls 1481

Poem or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal 1481

"next to of course god america i 1483

i sing of Olaf glad and big 1483

if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself )have 1484

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond 1485

anyone lived in a pretty how town 1485

my father moved through dooms of love 1486

pity this busy monster, manunkind 1488

what if a much of a which of a wind 1489

JEAN TOOMER (1894-1967) 1489

Cane 1490

Georgia Dusk 1490

Fern 1491

Portrait in Georgia 1494

Seventh Street 1494

F.SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940) 1495

Babylon Revisited 1496

JOHN DOS PASSOS (1896-1970) 1511

U.S.A. 1512

The Big Money 1512

Newsreel LXVIII 1512

The Camera Eve (51) 1514

Mary French 1515

WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962) 1532

As I Lay Dying 1534

Barn Burning 1630

LOUISE BOGAN (1897-1970) 1643

Medusa 1644

Portrait 1644

The Alchemist 1645

The Crows 1645

Women 1645

Cassandra 1646

Evening in the Sanitarium 1646

HART CRANE (1899-1932) 1647

Chaplinesque 1649

At Melville's Tomb 1649

Voyages 1650

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

Ⅱ ("Infinite consanguinity it bears—") 1651

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

THE BRIDGE 1652

ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961) 1685

The Snows of Kilimanjaro 1687

THOMAS WOLFE (1900-1938) 1704

The Lost Boy 1705

STERLING A. BROWN (1901-1989) 1725

Mister Samuel and Sam 1726

He Was a Man 1727

Master and Man 1728

Break of Day 1729

Bitter Fruit of the Tree 1730

LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967) 1730

The Negro Speaks of Rivers 1731

Mother to Son 1732

The Weary Blues 1732

I, Too 1733

Mulatto 1734

Song for a Dark Girl 1735

Vagabonds 1735

Genius Child 1736

Refugee in America 1736

Madam and Her Madam 1736

Madam's Calling Cards 1737

Silhouette 1738

Visitors to the Black Belt 1738

Note on Commercial Theatre 1739

Democracy 1739

JOHN STEINBECK (1902-1968) 1740

The Leader of the People 1741

COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946) 1751

Yet Do I Marvel 1752

Incident 1752

Heritage 1753

From the Dark Tower 1755

Uncle Jim 1756

RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960) 1756

The Man Who Was Almost a Man 1758

MURIEL RUKEYSER (1913-1980) 1766

Effort at Speech Between Two People 1767

Movie 1768

Alloy 1769

Suicide Blues 1769

Who in One Lifetime 1770

"Long Enough" 1771

The Poem as Mask 1771

Poem 1772

Painters 1772

American Prose since 1945 1773

Introduction 1773

Timeline 1783

EUDORA WLLTY(b. 1909) 1784

Petrified Man 1785

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911-1983) 1794

A Streetcar Named Desire 1797

JOHN CHEEVER (1912-1982) 1860

The Swimmer 1862

BERNARD MALAMUD (1914-1986) 1870

The Magic Barrel 1871

RALPH ELLISON (1914-1994) 1883

Invisible Man 1884

Prologue 1884

Chapter I [Battle Royal] 1891

SAUL BELLOW (b. 1915) 1901

Looking for Mr. Green 1903

ARTHUR MILLER (b. 1915) 1917

Death of a Salesman 1919

GRACE PALEY (b. 1922) 1985

A Conversation with My Father 1986

KURT VONNEGUT(b. 1922) 1990

Fates Worse Than Death 1991

JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987) 1999

Going to Meet the Man 2000

FLANNERY O'CONNOR (1925-1964) 2011

The Life You Save May Be Your Own 2012

Good Country People 2020

GORE VIDAL(b. 1925) 2034

The Robin 2035

URSULA K. LE GUIN (b. 1929) 2038

Schrodinger's Cat 2039

She Unnames Them 2044

PAULE MARSHALL (b. 1929) 2046

Reena 2047

DONALD BARTHELME (1931-1989) 2060

A Manual for Sons 2061

TONI MORRISON (b. 1931) 2077

Recitatif 2078

JOHN UPDIKE (b. 1932) 2092

Separating 2096

PHILIP ROTH (b. 1933) 2101

Defender of the Faith 2103

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

Dutchman 2126

An Agony. As Now. 2139

A Poem for Willie Best 2140

Will They Cry When You're Gone, You Bet 2145

N. SCOTT MOMADAY (b. 1934) 2146

The Way to Rainy Mountain 2147

Headwaters 2147

Introduction 2147

Ⅳ 2151

ⅩⅢ 2152

ⅩⅦ 2153

ⅩⅩⅣ 2154

Epilogue 2154

Rainy Mountain Cemetery 2156

GERALD VIZENOR(b. 1934) 2157

Almost Browne 2158

STEPHEN DIXON (b. 1936) 2163

Time to Go 2164

CLARENCE MAJOR (b. 1936) 2174

An Area in the Cerebral Hemisphere 2175

THOMAS PYNCHON (b. 1937) 2179

Entropy 2180

JOANNA RUSS(b. 1937) 2190

When It Changed 2191

RAYMOND CARVER (1938-1988) 2197

Cathedral 2197

ISHMAEL REED (b. 1938) 2209

The Last Days of Louisiana Red 2209

Chapter 36 [Mary Dalton's Dream] 2209

Neo-HooDoo Manifesto 2213

TONI CADE BAMBARA (1939-1995) 2218

Medley 2219

MAXINE HONG KINGSTON (b. 1940) 2230

Tripmaster Monkey 2232

1. Trippers and Askers 2232

DIANE GLANCY (b. 1941) 2257

Jack Wilson or Wovoka and Christ My Lord 2258

Polar Breath 2261

BARRY HANNAH (b. 1942) 2264

Midnight and I'm Not Famous Yet 2265

ALICE WALKER (b. 1944) 2273

Everyday Use 2274

ANNIE DILLARD (b. 1945) 2280

Holy the Firm 2281

ANN BEATTIE (b. 1947) 2300

Weekend 2302

DAVID MAMET (b. 1947) 2313

Glengarry Glen Ross 2315

LESLIE MARMON SILKO (b. 1948) 2348

Lullaby 2349

DENISE CHAVEZ (b. 1948) 2355

The Last of the Menu Girls 2356

SANDRA CISNEROS(b. 1954) 2374

My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn 2375

Eleven 2376

Salvador Late or Early 2378

Barbie-Q 2379

Mericans 2380

Tepeyac 2382

LOUISE ERDRICH (b. 1954) 2384

Fleur 2385

WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN (b. 1959) 2394

Red Hands 2395

American Poetry since 1945 2403

Introduction 2403

Timeline 2413

LORINE NIEDECKER (1903-1970) 2415

Poet's Work 2416

[I married] 2417

My Life by Water 2417

Lake Superior 2418

[Well, spring overflows the land] 2421

ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905-1989) 2422

Bearded Oaks 2424

Audubon 2425

Ⅰ. Was Not the Lost Dauphin 2425

Ⅵ. Love and Knowledge 2426

Ⅶ. Tell Me a Story 2426

American Portrait: Old Style 2427

Acquaintance with Time in Early Autumn 2430

Mortal Limit 2432

After the Dinner Party 2432

GEORGE OPPEN (1908-1984) 2433

Party on Shipboard 2435

[She lies, hip high] 2435

The Hills 2435

Workman 2436

Psalm 2436

From Of Being Numerous 2437

Anniversary Poem 2444

THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963) 2445

Cuttings 2447

Cuttings (later) 2447

Weed Puller 2447

Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze 2448

My Papa's Waltz 2449

Night Crow 2449

The Lost Son 2449

The Waking 2454

I Knew a Woman 2454

The Far Field 2455

Wish for a Young Wife 2458

In a Dark Time 2458

CHARLES OLSON (1910-1970) 2459

THE MAXIMUS POEMS 2460

I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You 2460

Maximus, to Himself 2464

[When do poppies bloom] 2465

Celestial Evening, October 1967 2466

ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979) 2467

The Unbeliever 2469

The Fish 2469

Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance 2471

The Bight 2473

At the Fishhouses 2474

Questions of Travel 2476

The Armadillo 2477

Sestina 2478

In the Waiting Room 2479

The Moose 2481

One Art 2485

ROBERT HAYDEN (1913-1980) 2486

Middle Passage 2488

Homage to the Empress of the Blues 2492

Those Winter Sundays 2493

The Night-Blooming Cereus 2493

Free Fantasia: Tiger Flowers 2495

Beginnings 2496

Elegies for Paradise Valley 2497

RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965) 2501

90 North 2502

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner 2503

Second Air Force 2504

The Marchen 2505

Next Day 2507

Well Water 2509

Thinking of the Lost World 2509

JOHN BERRYMAN (1914-1972) 2511

Homage to Mistress Bradstreet 2513

17-39 2513

DREAM SONGS 2519

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 Rock 2525

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket 2526

Mr. Edwards and the Spider 2530

My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow 2531

Memories of West Street and Lepke 2534

Skunk Hour 2536

Night Sweat 2537

For the Union Dead 2538

Death of Anne Boleyn 2540

Returning Turtle 2540

Epilogue 2540

GWENDOLYN BROOKS (b. 1917) 2541

A STREET IN BRONZEVILLE 2542

kitchenette building 2542

the mother 2543

a song in the front yard 2544

The White Troops Had Their Orders But the Negroes Looked Like Men 2544

The Womanhood 2545

The Children of the Poor (Ⅱ) 2545

We Real Cool 2545

The Bean Eaters 2545

A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon 2546

The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till 2549

The Blackstone Rangers 2549

To the Diaspora 2551

The Coora Flower 2552

ROBERT DUNCAN (1919-1988) 2552

Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow 2555

A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar 2556

Doves 2563

Achilles' Song 2565

Interrupted Forms 2566

RICHARD WILBUR (b. 1921) 2567

The Beautiful Changes 2568

The Death of a Toad 2569

Ceremony 2569

"A World without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness" 2570

Years-End 2571

Love Calls Us to the Things of This World 2571

The Mind-Reader 2572

JAMES DICKEY (1923-1997) 2576

Drowning with Others 2577

The Heaven of Animals 2578

Falling 2579

DENISE LEVERTOV (1923-1997) 2583

To the Snake 2585

The Jacob's Ladder 2585

In Mind 2586

September 1961 2587

Olga Poems 2588

Ⅲ 2588

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 Mexico 2591

Zeroing In 2592

Caedmon 2593

A. R. AMMONS (b. 1926) 2594

So I Said I Am Ezra 2595

Corsons Inlet 2596

Grace Abounding 2599

Easter Morning 2599

Singling ＆ Doubling Together 2602

The Dwelling 2602

Garbage 2603

2 2603

JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995) 2607

An Urban Convalescence 2608

The Broken Home 2610

Lost in Translation 2613

Family Week at Oracle Ranch 2618

ROBERT GREELEY (b. 1926) 2623

Kore 2625

The Door 2626

For Love 2628

The Messengers 2629

For No Clear Reason 2630

The Birds 2630

Fathers 2631

ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997) 2632

Howl 2634

A Supermarket in California 2641

Sunflower Sutra 2642

To Aunt Rose 2643

On Burroughs' Work 2644

Ego Confession 2645

FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) 2646

To the Harbormaster 2647

In Memory of My Feelings 2648

A Step Away from Them 2652

The Day Lady Died 2654

Ave Maria 2654

GALWAY KINNELL (b. 1927) 2655

The Porcupine 2656

Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight 2659

Saint Francis and the Sow 2662

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps 2663

Cemetery Angels 2663

JOHN ASHBERY(b. 1927) 2663

Illustration 2665

Soonest Mended 2666

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 2668

The Lament upon the Waters 2679

Myrtle 2680

W. S. MERW1N (b. 1927) 2681

The Drunk in the Furnace 2682

For the Anniversary of My Death 2682

For a Coming Extinction 2683

September Plowing 2684

Lonsing a Language 2684

Lament for the Makers 2685

JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980) 2691

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio 2692

To the Evening Star: Central Minnesota 2693

A Blessing 2693

A Centenary Ode: Inscribed to Little Crow, Leader of the Sioux Rebellion in Minnesota, 1862 2694

With the Shell of a Hermit Crab 2695

The Journey 2695

PHILIP LEVINE(b. 1928) 2696

Animals Are Passing from Our Lives 2697

Detroit Grease Shop Poem 2698

They Feed They Lion 2699

On the Murder of Lieutenant Jose del Castillo by the Falangist Bravo Martinez, July 12, 1936 2700

Starlight 2701

Fear and Fame 2701

The Simple Truth 2702

ANNE SEXTON'(1928-1974) 2703

The Truth the Dead Know 2704

The Starry Night 2705

Sylvias Death 2705

Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman 2707

The Death of the Fathers 2709

2. How We Danced 2709

3. The Boat 2710

ADRIENNE RICH (b. 1929) 2711

Storm Warnings 2713

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law 2714

"I Am in Danger-Sir—" 2718

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning 2719

Diving into the Wreck 2719

Power 2721

Transcendental Etude 2722

For a Friend in Travail 2726

An Atlas of the Difficult World 2727

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 Firelight 2733

Riprap 2734

August on Sourdough, A Visit from Dick Brewer 2734

Beneath My Hand and Eye the Distant Hills. Your Body 2735

The Blue Sky 2736

Straight-Creek—Great Burn 2740

Ripples on the Surface 2742

SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963) 2742

Morning Song 2744

Lady Lazarus 2744

Ariel 2747

Daddy 2748

Words 2750

Blackberrving 2750

Purdah 2751

The Applicant 2753

Child 2754

AUDRE LORDE (1934-1992) 2754

Coal 2756

The Woman Thing 2756

Black Mother Woman 2757

Separation 2758

Harriet 2758

Chain 2759

MARY OLIVER (b. 1935) 2761

The Black Snake 2762

In Blackwater Woods 2763

A Visitor 2764

Landscape 2764

Picking Blueberries, Austerlitz, New York, 1957 2765

Hawk 2766

Poppies 2767

Hummingbird Pauses at the Trumpet Vine 2768

MICHAEL S. HARPER (b. 1938) 2769

Dear John, Dear Coltrane 2770

American History 2771

Deathwatch 2772

Martin's Blues 2773

"Bird Lives": Charles Parker in St. Louis 2773

Nightmare Begins Responsibility 2775

Tongue-Tied in Black and White 2775

ROBERT PINSKY(b. 1940) 2777

The Figured Wheel 2779

The Street 2780

A Woman 2782

The Want Bone 2784

Shirt 2784

At Pleasure Bay 2786

SIMON J. ORTIZ (b. 1941) 2788

Passing through Little Rock 2789

Earth and Rain, the Plants ＆ Sun 2789

Vision Shadows 2791

Poems from the Veterans Hospital 2792

8:50 AM Ft. Lyons YAH 2792

Travelling 2792

From Sand Creek 2793

LOUISE GLUCK(b. 1943) 2794

The Drowned Children 2795

Descending Figure 2796

2. The Sick Child 2796

3. For My Sister 2796

Illuminations 2797

Terminal Resemblance 2798

Appearances 2799

Vespers 2800

JOY HARJO(b. 1951) 2800

Call It Fear 2802

White Bear 2803

She Had Some Horses 2804

Ⅲ. Drowning Horses 2804

Summer Night 2804

Eagle Poem 2805

Climbing the Streets of Worcester, Mass. 2806

The Flood 2806

RITA DOVE (b. 1952) 2808

Geometry 2810

Adolescence—Ⅰ 2810

Adolescence—Ⅱ 2811

Adolescence—Ⅲ 2811

Banneker 2812

Parsley 2813

THOMAS AND BKULAH 2815

'The Event 2815

Straw Hat 2816

The Zeppelin Factory 2816

Dusting 2817

Pomade 2818

Poem in Which I Refuse Contemplation 2819

Heroes 2820

Missing 2821

ALBERTO RIOS (b. 1952) 2822

Madre Sofia 2822

Wet Camp 2824

Taking Away the Name of a Nephew 2824

Advice to a First Cousin 2826

Seniors 2826

Domingo Limon 2827

LORNA DEE CERVANTES (b. 1954) 2830

Uncle's First Rabbit 2831

For Virginia Chavez 2833

Visions of Mexico While at a Writing Symposium in Port Townsend,Washington 2834

The Body as Braille 2836

Emplumada 2836

My Dinner with Your Memory 2837

CATHY SONG (b. 1955) 2837

The White Porch 2838

Beauty and Sadness 2840

Lost Sister 2841

Chinatown 2842

Heaven 2845

LI-YOUNG LEE (b. 1957) 2846

The Gift 2847

Persimmons 2848

Eating Alone 2850

Eating Together 2850

Mnemonic 2851

This Room and Everything in It 2851

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES 2853

PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 2895

INDEX 2905