PREFACE TO THE xxix •

Literature to Introduction 1

Timeline

STORIES OF THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD

The Iroquois Creation Story (version by David Pirna Stories of the Beginning of the (versions by J. W. Lloyd) 21

The Story of the

(1451-1506) 25 From Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage

[February 15, 1493] From Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the Fourth

1503] 27

ÄLVAR NÜNEZ CABEZA DE VACA 29 The Relation of Cabcza de Vaca 30

30. [The Malhado Way of Life] 31 [Our Life the Avavares and Arbadaos] 33 [Customs of That Region] 34 [The First Confrontation] 35

with Our

(1539-1616)

The Florida of the (1605) 38 Chapter IV. Of the of the Cacique to

the Captive Comrricnded Himself 38 Chapter V. The Governor Sends for Juan Ortiz 40

JOHN SMITH (1580-1631)

The Genera] History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer 44

The Third Book. From Chapter 2. What Happened the First

44 The Fourth Book. to Virginia] 53

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From A Description of New England 53 From New England's 57

NATIVE AMERICAN TALES 59

WINNEBAGO 61 Felix White Sr.'s Introduction to Wakjankaga (transcribed and translated

by Kathleen Danker and Felix White) 62 From The Winnebago Trickster (edited by Paul Radin) 65

KOASATI 70 The Bungling Host (versions by Abbey and Williams; recorded

and translated by John R. Swanton and Kimball) 70

75 Of Plymouth Plantation 76

Chapter IX. Of Their Voyage and How They Passed the Sea; and of

Their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod 76 From Chapter X. Showing How They Sought Out a Place of

Habitation; and What Them Thereabout 79 Book II

Chapter XL The of Anno 84 [The Compact] 84 [The Starving Time] 85 [Indian Relations] 86 Chapter XII. Anno [First Thanksgiving] 89 Chapter XIX. Anno Dom: [Thomas Morton of

89 Chapter XXIII. Anno Dom: 1632 [Prosperity Brings Dispersal of

Population] 93

JOHN WINTHROP (1588-1649) 94 A Model Christian Charity 95 From The Journal Winthrop

BRADSTREET 1612-1672)

115 To Her Father with Some Verses Contemplations The Author to Her Book Before the Birth of One of Her Children

To My Dear A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment 125

Memory of My Dear Bradstreet Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our 127

My Dear

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In Honor of that High and Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy Memory 131

MARY ROWLANDSON (c. 1636-1711) 135 A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary

Rowlandson 136 The First Remove 138 The Second Remove 138

Third Remove The Twelfth Remove 142 The Twentieth Remove

EDWARD TAYLOR (c. 1642-1729) 152 PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS

Prologue Meditation 8 (First Series) Meditation 22 (First Series) 155 Meditation 42 (First Series) Upon Wedlock, and Death of Upon a Wasp Chilled with Huswifery

MATHER (1663-1728) 161 CHRISTI AMERiCANA

The Life of William Bradford, Esq., Governor of Plymouth Colony

American Literature 171

.. ; 180

JONATHAN EDWARDS (1703-1758) 182 Personal Narrative 183

. A Divine and Supernatural Light Sinners in the Hands an Angry God 207

FRANKLIN The Way Wealth 221 Remarks the Savages of North America 227 The

[Part One] [Part Two] 276

(1723-1792) 293 Ä Short Narrative of My Life 294

J. HECTOR ST. JOHN DE CREVECOEUR (1735-1813) 299 •Letters from an American Farmer 300

'Letter Letter IX. Description of

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STOCKTON (1736-1801) 314 A against the ladies in a newspaper; An

To my To card 317 An Ode on the birth day of the illustrious George Washington, President

of the United States Sensibility[,] an 319 Tears of friendship[.] the a friend just and who

promised to write, on parting, but had neglected it. 319

THOMAS PAINE 320 Common Sense 321

Introduction 321 From Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs 322

The Crisis, No. 1 328

THOMAS JEFFERSON 334 The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson 336

From The Declaration of Independence 336 Notes on the State of Virginia 342

Query XVII. Religion 342 Letter to John Adams (October 28, 1813) [The Natural Aristocrat] 346

OLAUDAH EQUIANO (1745-1797) 350 From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or

Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself

(1752-1832) 361 On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country 362 On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man 364 On the Religion of Nature 365

PHILLIS WHEATLEY 366 On Being Brought from Africa to America 367 To the University of Cambridge, in New England 368

the Death of the Rev. Mr. George 368 Thoughts on the Works of Providence To S.M., A Young African on Seeing His Works To His Excellency General Washington 374 To the Right Honorable William, of Dartmouth To Maecenus 376

(1757-1826) 378 The Contrast 379

BRITON HAMMON 1760) 419 Narrative Of the Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of

Briton a Negro Man 420

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American Literature

Timeline 444

WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859) 446 Rip Van Winkle 448

FENIMORE 460 The Pioneers 462

Chapter III. [The Slaughter of the Pigeons] 462

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878) 469 Thanatopsis 470 To a Waterfowl The Prairies 473

WILLIAM APESS 476 An Indian's for the White Man 477

EMERSON (1803-1882) 482 Nature 485 The American Scholar The Divinity School Address 527

539 Experience 556

THE CHEROKEE MEMORIALS 571

[Note on the Accompanying Memorials, February 15, 1830] 573 [Memorial of the Cherokee Council, November 5, [Memorial of the Cherokee Citizens, December 18, 1829] 578

NATHANIEL (1804-1864) 579 My Kinsman, Major Molineux 584 Roger Malvin's Young Goodman Brown 610 The of Merry Mount The The Birth-Mark 635 Rappaccini's Daughter 647

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 667 Life 668 The Slave's 669

Jewish at Newport

GREENLEAF 673 Ichabod! 674 Snow-Bound: A Winter 675

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EDGAR ALLAN POE 694 Science 696

To Helen 697 The Baven 697

. Ulalume: A 701 Annabel Lee 703 Ligeia 704 The Fall of the House of Usher The Teil-Tale Heart 727 The Letter The Cask of Amontillado 743 The Philosophy of Composition 748

ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865) 757 Address Delivered at the Dedication of the at Gettysburg,

November 19, 1863 758 Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 759

MARGARET 760 The Great Lawsuit. MAN versus MEN. WOMAN versus

WOMEN. 763 [Four Kinds of Equality] 763 [The Great Radical 767

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 771 Cabin; or, Life the 774

Chapter VII. The Mother's Struggle 774 Chapter IX. In Which It Appears that a Senator Is but a Man 783 Chapter XII. Select Incident of Trade 794

FANNY FERN (SARAH WILLIS PARTON) 806 Male Criticism on Ladies' Books 808 "Fresh Leaves, by Fanny Fern" 809 A Law More Nice Than Just

HARRIET (c. 1813-1897)

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl I. Childhood 813

816 X. A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life 820 XIV Another Link to Life 824 XXI. The Loophole of Retreat 826

Free at Last 829

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Resistance to Civil Government Waiden, or Life in the Woods 853

Economy 853 Where I Lived, and What I Lived 895 Sounds 905 Solitude

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Spring 920 Conclusion

FREDERICK DOUGLASS 939 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by

I

Chapter VI 945 Chapter VII 947 Chapter IX

X 954

(1819-1906) 973 California, in 1852: Residence in the Mines 974 Letter 12 27, 974 Letter 22 (October 1852) 979

(1819-1892) 985 Preface to Leaves of 989 1003 Letter to Ralph Emerson (August

Manifesto] 1047 Live Oak, with Moss 1054

CHILDREN OF ADAM 1058

Spontaneous Me 1058 • "'

Once I Pass'd through a Populous City Facing West from Shores

1060

Trickle Drops 1060 Here the Frailest Leaves of Me 1061 Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

Out of the Cradle Rocking 1066

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

1071

Beat! Beat! 1071 Cavalry Crossing a Ford 1072 The Wound-Dresser 1072 Reconciliation 1074

MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN 1074

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

A Noiseless Patient

HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891) 1081 Bartleby, the 1086 Benito Cereno

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(1830-1886) 1167 49 ("I never lost as much but twice") 67 ("Success is counted sweetest")

("These are the days when Birds (" is a fine invention") ("I taste a never ("Safe in their Alabaster ("I a of Agony")

249 ("Wild Nights!") 258 ("There's a certain Slant of 287 ("A stopped—") 303 ("The Soul selects her own 328 Bird down the Walk—") 341 ("After great pain, a formal feeling 348 ("I dreaded that first Robin, so") 435 ("Much Madness is divinest

("This is my letter to the World") 448 ("This was a is That") 449 ("1 died for was scarce") 465 ("I heard a I died—")

("This World is not Conclusion") 505 ("I not

("It was not Death, for I stood up") 632 ("The wider than the 640 ("I cannot live with You—") 650 an Element of

("Because I not stop for 754 ("My Life had Loaded Gun—") 986 ("A narrow Fellow in the Grass")

("The in a House") the Truth but it ("Apparently with no surprise") ("My before its 1187

Letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson [Say My Verse Is (April 1862)

Business Is 1862) 1188

REBECCA HARDING DAVIS (1831-1910)

Life in the

EMMA LAZARUS (1849-1887)

In the Jewish Cemetery at Newport 1492 1220 The New Colossus 1221

American Literature 1865—1914

Timeline

MARK TWAIN (Samuel L. Clemens) (1835-1910)

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses

1441 Editha 1443

BIERCE (1842-1914?) Occurrence at Creek

NATIVE AMERICAN ORATORY

1812-1874) 1461 1462

1831-1900) [He has filled graves with our bones]

SARAH MORGAN BRYAN (1836-1919) 1467 The Palace Burner A Pique at Parting 1469 In a Queen's Domain 1470 Her Word of Reproach 1471

of Occupation 1471 Answering a 1472

BRET HARTE (1836-1902) 1473 The Outcasts of Poker 1474

CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON 1482 1483

HENRY JAMES (1843-1916) 1498 Daisy Miller: A Study 1501

Real Thing 1539 The Beast in the Jungle

(1849-1909) 1586 1587

(1850-1904) 1594 The Storni 1 6 0 3 ; , •.•

Baby 1607

MARY E. WILKINS (1852-1930) 1611 A New England Nun 1612

(1856?-1915) 1621 Up from Slavery 1622

Chapter XIV. The Atlanta Exposition Address

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CHARLES W. CHESNUTT 1630 The Goophered Grapevine The Wife of His Youth

7 A Sweat-Shop

CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN 1658 The Yellow

EDITH WHARTON Belated 1673

SIN (Edith Maud Eaton) (1867-1914) 1692 Mrs. Spring Fragrance

W. E. B. DU 1868-1963) 1702 The Souls of Black

The Forethought I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others 1710

(1871-1900) 1721

The Hotel An Episode of War 1758

JACK LONDON (1876-1916)

To a Fire 1762

NATIVE AMERICAN CHANTS AND SONGS

THE NAVAJO NIGHT CHANT

The Sacred Mountains 1774 Dance of the Thunderbirds 1776

CHIPPEWA SONGS Song of the Crows My Love Has Departed Love-Charm Song 1783 The Approach of the The Gather Wounded The Sioux Woman Defends Her Children Song of the Captive Sioux Woman 1785

GHOST DANCE SONGS

Songs of the Arapaho 1786 [Father, have pity on me] [When I approaching]

Songs of the Sioux 1788

1780

CONTENTS / xvii

[The father says so] [Give me my knife] [The is

1856-1932) 1789 The Messiah Letter: Cheyenne Version The Messiah Letter: Mooney's Free Rendering 1792

ZITKALA SA (Gertrude Bonnin) Impressions of an Indian Childhood

American Literature between the Wars

Timeline

ELK and JOHN G. NEIHARDT (1881-1973) 1823 Black Speaks 1824 III. The Great Vision 1824

ROBINSON (1869-1935) 1836 Luke Havergal

Cory 1838 Miniver Cheevy 1838 Mr. Flood's Party 1839

(1873-1947) 1841 Neighbour Rosicky 1843 The Sculptor's Funeral 1863

(1874-1925) 1873 The Captured Goddess 18741

Venus Transiens 1875 Madonna of the Evening Flowers 1876 September, 1918 1877 St. Louis 1877

ROBERT FROST (1874-1963) 1878 1879

Mowing 1880 1880

1881 After 1885

1886 Taken Bird 1888 Birches 1888 "Out, Out—" 1889

1890 Nothing Gold Can Stay 1890

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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Desert Places 1891 Design 1892 The Gift Outright

SUSAN GLASPELL 1893 1894

ANDERSON (1876-1941) 1903 WINESBLRG, 1905

Mother 1905 "Queer" 1910

CARL SANDBURG Chicago 1917 Fog 1918 Grass

STEVENS 1920

A High-Toned Christian Woman The Emperor of 1922

of Ten Sunday Morning 1923 Anecdote of the Jar Peter Quince at the Ciavier Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird The of Order at Key West Of Modern Poetry 1931 The Piain Sense of Things 1932 A Quiet Normal Life 1932

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963)

The Young Housewife 1935 Portrait of a Lady 1935 Queen-Anne's-Lace 1936 The Widow's in Springtime Spring All 1937 To 1938 The Red Wheelbarrow This Is Just to Say 1940 The Dance ("In Brueghel's great picture, The 1941 Burning the Christmas Greens Lear 1943 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus The Dance ("When the snow falls the flakes") 1945

EZRA POUND (1885-1972)

Portrait d'une 1949

CONTENTS / xix

. In a Station of the Metro 1949 The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter 1949 THE 1950

I ("And then went down to the ship") XLV ("With Usura")

H. D. (1886-1961) 1954 Mid-day 1955 Oread 1956 Helen 1956 The Walls Do Not Fall 1957

1-2 21-24 1959 41-43 1961

ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962) 1963 To the Stone-Cutters 1964 Shine, Perishing Republic 1965

Point Birds and Fishes

MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972) 1966 Poetry 1968 The Paper Nautilus 1969 The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing In Distrust of Merits 1971

to Be a Dragon 1973

T, S. ELIOT 1973 Prufrock 1975 Gerontion 1979 The Waste Land 1981

. The Hollow Men 1994 of the Magi 1997

1998

Burnt Norton 1998

(1888-1953) 2003 Long Day's into Night 2005

CLAUDE (1889-1948) 2082 Africa 2084 The Harlem Dancer 2084

2084 Harlem Shadows America 2085

2086

KATHERINE (1890-1980) 2086 Flowering Judas 2088

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HURSTON (1891-1960) 2096 How It to Be Colored Me 2097 The Six-Bits 2100

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950) 2109 Recuerdo 2109 I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently Apostrophe to Man In the Grave No Flower I Too beneath Your Moon, Sex I Forgot for a Moment

E. E. (1894-1962) 2112 in Just- O sweet spontaneous Buffalo "next to of course god i i sing of Olaf and big somewhere i have never beyond anyone lived in a pretty how town my father through of love

(1894-1967) 2120 Cane 2121

Georgia Dusk Fern 2122 Portrait in Georgia 2125 Seventh Street

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940) 2126 Winter 2127 Babylon Revisited

(1897-1962)

A Rose for 2160 That Evening Sun 2166 Barn Burning

(1899-1932)

Chaplinesque At Melville's 2192 THE BRIDGE

To Brooklyn Bridge 2193 IL Powhatan's Daughter 2194

The River 2194 The Dance 2198

VII. The Tunnel 2201 VIII. Atlantis 2204

ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961)

The Snows of 2209

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LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967) 2225 The Negro Speaks of Rivers 2227 Mother to Son 2227 I, Too 2228 Mulatto 2228 Song for a Dark Girl 2229 Silhouette 2230 Visitors to the Black 2230 Note on Commercial Theatre Democracy 2231

JOHN STEINBECK (1902-1968) 2232 2233

Chapter 2233 Chapter 12 2234 Chapter 15 2238

COUNTEE (1903-1946) 2245 Yet Do I Marvel 2245 Incident 2246 Heritage 2246

D'ARCY (1904-1977) 2249 2250

RICHARD WRIGHT 2255 The Man Who Was Almost a Man 2257

(1911-1956) 2265 Be American 2266

MURIEL (1913-1980) 2271 at Speech Between Two Peöple 2272

2273 Myth 2274

American Prose since

Timeline 2286

(1909-2001) 2288 2289

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911-1983) 2298 A Streetcar Desire 2301

(1912-1982) 2363 The 2365

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(1914-1994) 2373 Invisible Man 2374

Chapter I [Battle Royal] 2374

SAUL BELLOW (b. 2384 Looking for Mr. Green 2386

GRACE PALEY(b. 1922) 2400 A Conversation with My Father 2401

KURT VONNEGUT (b. 2405 Fates Worse Than Death 2407

(1924-1987) 2414 Going to Meet the Man

FLANNERY (1925-1964) 2427 Good Country People 2428

PAULE MARSHALL (b. 1929) 2442 2443

TONI MORRISON (b. 1931) 2455 Recitatif 2457

JOHN UPDIKE (b. 1932) Separating 2472

PHILIP ROTH (b. 1933) Defender of the Faith

N. SCOTT MOMADAY (b. The Way to Rainy Mountain 2504

Headwaters 2504 Introduction 2504 IV 2509 XIII 2509 XVII 2510 XXIV 2511 Epilogue Rainy Mountain

RUDOLFO A. ANAYA (b. 1937) 2514 The Christmas Play

PYNCHON(b. 1937)

Entropy 2522

RAYMOND CARVER (b. 1938)

Cathedral 2533

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(1939-1995) 2544 Medley 2544

KINGSTON 2556 Name Woman 2557

ANZALDUA(b. 1942) 2566 How to Tarne a Wild Tongue El sonavabitche 2575

ALICE (b. 1944) 2580 Everyday Use 2581

LESLIE MARMON (b. 1948) 2587 Lullaby 2588

CISNEROS(b. 1954) 2594 My Lucy Friend who Like Com

LOUISE ERDRICH (b. 1954) 2597 2598

American Poetry since Introduction 2609

Timeline 2622

STANLEY KUNITZ (b. 1905) 2624 Father and Son After the Last Dynasty 2626 The Wellfleet

ROBERT PENN 2631 Bearded Oaks 2633

2634 ; I. Was Not the Lost Dauphin . VI. Love and Knowledge * VII. Me a Story 2635

Acquaintance with Time in 2636 After the Dinner Party 2637

2638 Cuttings 2639 Cuttings 2640 My Papa's 2640 •.

Woman 2641 Wish for a Young Wife 2642 The Waking 2643

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CHARLES OLSON (1910-1970) 2643 2 6 4 5

Maximus, to Himself 2645 Celestial Evening, October 1967 2646

ELIZABETH BISHOP 2648 The Unbeliever 2649 The Fish 2650 At the Fishhouses 2652 The Armadillo 2653 Sestina 2655 In the Waiting 2656 The Moose 2658 One Art 2662

ROBERT HAYDEN 2662 Middle Passage 2664 Homage to the Empress of the Blues 2669 Those Winter Sundays 2669

(1914-1965) 2670 The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Second Air Force 2671 Well Water 2673 Thinking of the Lost World 2673

JOHN BERRYMAN (1914-1972)

Homage to Mistress Bradstreet 2676 17-39

DREAM SONGS 2 6 8 3 29 ("There down, once, a thing on Henry's heart") 2683 45 ("He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back") 2683 385 ("My daughter's heavier. Light leaves are flying") 2684

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket 2687 Mr. Edwards and the Spider 2691 Memories of West Street and Lepke 2692

2693 For the Union Dead 2695

GWENDOLYN BROOKS A STREET IN BRONZEVILLE 2 6 9 8

kitchenette building 2698 the mother 2698

The White Troops Had Their Orders But the Looked Men 2699

The Bean Eaters 2700 The Last of the of Till To the Diaspora 2700

2697

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The Coora Flower We Real Cool 2702

2702 The 2703

2704 The Beautiful Changes 2704 Love Us to the Things of This World

DENISE LEVERTOV (b. 1923) 2706 2707

The In Mind 2708 Death in Mexico

2710 So I Said I Am Ezra 2712 Corsons Easter Morning Garbage 2717

Section 2 2717

JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995) 2721 An Urban Convalescence 2722 Family Week at Oracle Ranch 2724

ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997) 2730 2732

Supermarket in California 2739

GALWAY KINNELL (b. 1927) 2740 The Porcupine 2741

Making We Hear Footsteps (1980) 2744

ASHBERY(b. 1927) Illustration 2746 Soonest Mended 2747 Myrtle 2749

(1927-1980) 2749 Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio

the Evening Star: Central Minnesota •.•.,.•..•

ANNE SEXTON (1928-1974) 2752 The Starry Night 2753 Sylvia's Death 2754 • Little Girl, My String Bean, 2756 The Death of Fathers 2758

2. How We Danced

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ADRIENNE (b. 1929) 2759 2761 Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law 2762 A Valediction Forbidding 2766 Diving into the Wreck 2766 Power 2768 Transcendental 2769

SNYDER(b. 1930) 2773 Riprap 2774 August on Sourdough, A Visit from Dick Brewer 2775 Beneath My Hand and Eye the Distant Hills. Your Body 2775

SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963) 2776 Morning Song 2778 Lady Lazarus 2778 Daddy 2781 Blackberrying 2783

2784

2784 2786

The Woman Thing 2786 2787

BARAKA (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934) 2788 An Agony. As 2789 A Poem for Willie Best 2790

MICHAEL S. HARPER (b. 1938) 2795 Dear John, Dear Coltrane 2796 American History 2798 Deathwatch 2798 Martin's Blues 2799

PINSKY(b. 1940)

The Street 2802 Shirt 2803 At Pleasure Bay 2805

BILLY COLLINS (b.

Forgetfulness 2808 Tuesday, June 4, 1991 I Chop Some Parsley Listening to Art Blakey's Version of "Three

Mice" 2810 The Night House

ORTIZ(b. 1941)

Earth and Rain, the Plants & Sun Vision Shadows 2815 Poems from the Veterans Hospital

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8:50 AM Ft. Lyons VAH 2816 Travelling

From From Sand Creek 2817

GRAHAM (b. 1950) 2818 The Geese 2820 At Luca Signorelli's Resurrection of the Body

DOVE(b. 1952) 2823 Banneker 2825 Parsley 2826

2828 2828

THOMAS AND 2 8 2 9

The Event 2829 Straw Hat 2830 Dusting 2831

Poem in Which I Refuse Contemplation 2832

1951) 2833 Call It Fear 2834 White Bear 2835 SHE HAD SOME HORSES 2836

III. Drowning Horses 2836

ALBERTO (b. 1952) 2836 Madre Sofia 2837 Wet Camp 2839 Advice to a First Cousin 2839 Domingo 2840

CATHY SONG (b. 1955) 2843 The White Porch 2844 Lost Sister 2845 Heaven 2847

LEE (b. 2848 2849 2851

Eating Together 2852 This and Everything in It

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES 2855

PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 2913

INDEX 2921