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

by Lauter, Paul; Yarborough, Richard; Bryer, Jackson; Molesworth, Charles; Cheung, King-Kok

• ISBN13: 9780618533015
• ISBN10: 061853301X
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-24
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Unrivaled diversity and teachability have madeThe Heath Anthologya best-selling text since the publication of its first edition in 1989. In presenting a more inclusive canon of American literature,The Heath Anthologycontinues to balance the traditional, leading names in American literature with lesser-known writers and to build upon the anthology's other strengths: its apparatus and its ancillaries. Now available in five volumes for greater flexibility, the Fifth Edition offers new thematic clusters to stimulate classroom discussions and to show the treatment of important topics across the genres. A new HM ClassPrep CD-ROM with an electronic version of the Instructor's Guide and an extensive array of visual aids supports instructors as they prepare for lectures. The indispensable web site has been fully updated to include revised timelines, a multimedia gallery to support thematic clusters, and a searchable Instructor's Guide. New!A new thematic cluster, "Prison Literature," acknowledges this growing field of study with poetry and fiction by past and present inmates. New!New writers such as Jimmy Santiago Baca, Kathy Boudin, and Judee Norton are featured in this volume. New!Two new beat writers include Brenda (Bonnie) Frazer, who uses poetry to express her feminist stance on marriage and sexual politics, and Joyce Johnson, who is represented with a selection of her letters to and from Jack Kerouac. New!New works include a selection from The Autobiography of Malcolm X, "Recitatif" by Toni Morrison, "Laurel" by Alice Walker, and "Trust Me" by John Updike. New!A new play by Paula Vogel,How I Learned to Drive,is featured in the New Generations section, and plays such asA Raisin in the SunandThe Crucibleare presented in their full-length formats.

Table of Contents

Preface	xvii
CONTEMPORARY PERIOD: 1945 TO THE PRESENT	1883
Earlier Generations: Cold War Culture and Its Discontents	1887	(458)
Ann Petry (1908-1997)	1891	(13)
The Witness	1892	(12)
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)	1904	(13)
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze	1905	(1)
Root Cellar	1906	(1)
Big Wind	1907	(1)
from The Lost Son	1908	(3)
1. The Flight	1908	(1)
4. The Return	1909	(1)
5. It was beginning winter	1910	(1)
from Meditations of an Old Woman	1911	(5)
First Meditation	1911	(3)
from Fourth Meditation	1914	(2)
Elegy	1916	(1)
My Papa's Waltz	1916	(1)
Eudora Welty (1909-2002)	1917	(17)
The Wide Net	1919	(15)
Charles Olson (1910-1970)	1934	(18)
The Kingfishers	1936	(7)
For Sappho, Back	1943	(3)
I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You	1946	(4)
Maximus, to himself	1950	(2)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)	1952	(8)
The Fish	1954	(2)
The Man-Moth	1956	(1)
At the Fishhouses	1957	(2)
Filling Station	1959	(1)
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)	1960	(11)
Portrait of a Madonna	1962	(9)
Tillie Lerner Olsen (b. 1913)	1971	(27)
Tell Me a Riddle	1972	(26)
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)	1998	(7)
Absalom	1999	(2)
The Minotaur	2001	(1)
Rite	2002	(1)
The Poem as Mask	2003	(1)
Martin Luther King, Malcolm X	2003	(1)
How We Did It	2004	(1)
Carlos Bulosan (1913-1956)	2005	(8)
from America Is in the Heart	2006	(7)
from Chapter XIII	2006	(3)
from Chapter XIV	2009	(4)
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)	2013	(4)
Tour 5	2014	(1)
Those Winter Sundays	2014	(1)
Summertime and the Living...	2015	(1)
Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday	2016	(1)
Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)	2017	(13)
The Magic Barrel	2018	(12)
Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-1994)	2030	(21)
A Party Down at the Square	2031	(5)
Flying Home	2036	(13)
Brave Words for a Startling Occasion	2049	(2)
Arthur Miller (b. 1915)	2051	(75)
The Crucible	2053	(73)
Saul Bellow (b. 1915)	2126	(16)
Looking for Mr. Green	2127	(15)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)	2142	(12)
The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith	2143	(4)
The Mother	2147	(1)
We Real Cool	2148	(1)
A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon	2149	(3)
The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till	2152	(1)
Ulysses	2153	(1)
Robert Lowell, Jr. (1917-1977)	2154	(8)
Memories of West Street and Lepke	2155	(1)
Skunk Hour	2156	(2)
For Theodore Roethke	2158	(1)
For the Union Dead	2158	(3)
Near the Ocean	2161	(1)
Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921)	2162	(10)
Seventeen Syllables	2164	(8)
Grace Paley (b. 1922)	2172	(9)
he Expensive Moment	2173	(8)
John Okada (1923-1971)	2181	(12)
from No-No Boy	2183	(10)
Chapter 6	2183	(10)
James Baldwin (1924-1987)	2193	(23)
Sonny's Blues	2194	(22)
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)	2216	(13)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find	2217	(12)
A Sheaf of Poetry and Prose from the Beat Movement	2229	(44)
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)	2229	(14)
A Supermarket in California	2231	(1)
Howl	2232	(8)
America	2240	(3)
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)	2243	(8)
The Vanishing American Hobo	2245	(6)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)	2251	(8)
I Am Waiting	2252	(4)
Dove Sta Amore...	2256	(1)
The Old Italians Dying	2256	(3)
Brenda (Bonnie) Frazer (b. 1939)	2259	(3)
from Troia: Mexican Memoirs	2260	(2)
Joyce Johnson (b. 1934)	2262	(5)
from Door Wide Open	2263	(2)
from Minor Characters	2265	(2)
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)	2267	(6)
Riprap	2269	(1)
Vapor Trails	2269	(1)
Wave	2270	(1)
It Was When	2271	(2)
Malcolm X (1925-1965)	2273	(6)
from The Autobiography of Malcolm X	2274	(5)
from Chapter 19, 1965	2274	(5)
Robert Creeley (b. 1926)	2279	(6)
Hart Crane	2280	(2)
I Know a Man	2282	(1)
For Love	2282	(2)
Words	2284	(1)
America	2285	(1)
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)	2285	(5)
My Heart	2287	(1)
The Day Lady Died	2287	(1)
Why I Am Not a Painter	2288	(1)
Poem	2289	(1)
John Ashbery (b. 1927)	2290	(7)
The Instruction Manual	2291	(3)
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape	2294	(1)
As You Came from the Holy Land	2295	(2)
Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928)	2297	(5)
The Shawl	2299	(3)
Edward Albee (b. 1928)	2302	(5)
The Sand Box	2303	(4)
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)	2307	(5)
Her Kind	2309	(1)
Housewife	2309	(1)
Young	2310	(1)
Somewhere in Africa	2310	(2)
Paule Marshall (b. 1929)	2312	(9)
To Da-Duh, in Memoriam	2314	(7)
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)	2321	(9)
Diving into the Wreck	2322	(3)
From a Survivor	2325	(1)
Power	2326	(1)
Not Somewhere Else, but Here	2326	(1)
Coast to Coast	2327	(1)
Frame	2328	(2)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)	2330	(10)
For a Fatherless Son	2331	(1)
Daddy	2332	(2)
Lady Lazarus	2334	(3)
Stings	2337	(1)
Fever 103°	2338	(2)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)	2340	(5)
I Have a Dream	2341	(4)
New Generations: Postmodernity and Difference	2345
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith (b. 1929)	2355	(10)
Sometimes It Just Happens That Way; That's All	2356	(9)
John Barth (b. 1930)	2365	(17)
Lost in the Funhouse	2366	(16)
A Sheaf of Vietnam Conflict Poetry and Prose	2382	(50)
Michael Herr (b. 1940)	2482
from Dispatches	2483
Tim O'Brien (b. 1946)	2390	(10)
In the Field	2392	(8)
Norman Mailer (b. 1923)	2400	(11)
from The Armies of the Night	2401	(10)
Robert Bly (b. 1926)	2411	(8)
Counting Small-Boned Bodies	2412	(1)
The Teeth Mother Naked at Last	2413	(6)
Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)	2419	(6)
Tu Do Street	2420	(1)
Prisoners	2421	(1)
Thanks	2422	(1)
Facing It	2423	(1)
Fog Galleon	2424	(1)
Denise Levertov (1923-1997)	2425	(7)
Illustrious Ancestors	2427	(1)
A Solitude	2427	(2)
Making Peace	2429	(1)
A Woman Alone	2430	(1)
The May Mornings	2431	(1)
Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)	2432	(5)
At the End of the Mechanical Age	2433	(4)
Toni Morrison (b. 1931)	2437	(14)
Recitatif	2438	(13)
John Updike (b. 1932)	2451	(7)
Trust Me	2453	(5)
Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933)	2458	(21)
The Sky Is Gray	2459	(20)
N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) (b. 1934)	2479	(10)
from The Way To Rainy Mountain	2480	(9)
Headwaters	2480	(1)
Prologue	2481	(1)
From the Introduction	2482	(2)
IV	2484	(1)
XVI	2485	(1)
XVII	2486	(1)
XXIV	2487	(1)
Epilogue	2487	(2)
Rainy Mountain Cemetery	2489	(1)
Audre Lorde (1934-1992)	2489	(9)
Power	2490	(2)
Walking Our Boundaries	2492	(1)
Never Take Fire from a Woman	2493	(1)
The Art of Response	2493	(1)
Stations	2494	(2)
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House	2496	(2)
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934)	2498	(27)
An Agony. As now.	2499	(2)
Ka 'Ba	2501	(1)
Black People: This Is Our Destiny
A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand	2502	(1)
Numbers, Letters	2503	(1)
Dutchman	2504	(21)
Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934)	2525	(8)
to blk/record/buyers	2526	(1)
Masks	2526	(2)
Just Don't Never Give Up on Love	2528	(2)
A Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King	2530	(2)
Father and Daughter	2532	(1)
Tomas Rivera (1935-1984)	2533	(9)
from...y no se lo tragó la tierra/And the Earth Did Not Devour Him	2534	(8)
Lucille Clifton (b. 1936)
the thirty eighth yea	2542	(2)
i am accused of tending to the past	2544	(1)
at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989	2544	(1)
reply	2545	(1)
in white america	2546	(2)
June Jordan (b. 1936)	2548	(8)
Poem About My Rights	2550	(2)
To Free Nelson Mandela	2552	(2)
Moving Towards Home	2554	(2)
Rudolfo A. Anaya (b.1937)	2556	(10)
from Bless Me, Ultima	2558	(8)
Dieciocho	2558	(8)
Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937)	2566	(11)
Entropy	2568	(9)
Nicholasa Mohr (b. 1938)	2577	(8)
from Rituals of Survival	2578	(7)
Raymond Carver (1938-1988)	2585	(16)
from Cathedral	2586	(15)
A Small Good Thing	2586	(15)
Lawson Fusao Inada (b. 1938)	2601	(13)
Instructions to All Persons	2603	(2)
Two Variations on a Theme by Thelonius Monk as Inspired by Mal Waldron	2605	(5)
Introduction: Monk's Prosody	2605	(1)
I. Blue Monk (linear)	2606	(4)
II. Blue Monk (percussive)	2610	(1)
Kicking the Habit	2610	(3)
On Being Asian American	2613	(1)
Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)	2614	(6)
Song: I Want a Witness	2615	(1)
Nightmare Begins Responsibility	2615	(1)
Here Where Coltrane Is	2616	(1)
A Narrative of the Life and Times of John Coltrane: Played by Himself	2617	(1)
Camp Story	2618	(2)
Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)	2620	(13)
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?	2622	(11)
Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)	2633	(6)
I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra	2634	(3)
Flight to Canada	2637	(2)
Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)	2639	(7)
The Lesson	2640	(6)
Frank Chin (b. 1940)	2646	(6)
Railroad Standard Time	2647	(5)
Cluster: Prison Literature	2652	(28)
Etheridge Knight (1931-4991)	2653	(5)
The Idea of Ancestry	2654	(2)
The Violent Space (or when your sister sleeps around for money)	2656	(1)
Ilu, the Talking Drum	2657	(1)
A Poem tot Myself (or Blues for a Mississippi Black Boy)	2658	(1)
Jimmy Santiago Baca (b. 1952)	2658	(5)
I've Taken Risks	2661	(1)
I Put on My jacket	2661	(1)
Commitment	2662	(1)
Ghost Reading in Sacramento	2662	(1)
Kathy Boudin (b. 1943)	2663	(7)
The Call	2664	(3)
Our Skirt	2667	(1)
A Trilogy of journeys	2668	(2)
Leonard Peltier (b. 1944)	2670	(3)
from Prison Writings	2671	(2)
Judee Norton (b. 1949)	2673	(7)
Norton #59900	2674	(6)
James Welch (Blackfeet-Gros Ventre) (b. 1940)	2680	(13)
from Winter in the Blood	2681	(12)
Bharati Mukherjee (b. 1940)	2693	(10)
A Wife's Story	2694	(9)
Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)	2703	(9)
No Name Woman	2704	(8)
Bobbie Ann Mason (b. 1940)	2712	(12)
Airwaves	2713	(11)
Simon Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo) (b. 1941)	2724	(7)
from Sand Creek	2725	(6)
John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941)	2731	(7)
Valaida	2732	(6)
Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004)	2738	(25)
from Borderlands/La Frontera	2740	(23)
3. Entering into the Serpent	2740	(12)
7. La conciencia de la mestiza/Toward a New Consciousness	2752	(11)
Janice Mirikitani (b. 1942)	2763	(6)
For My Father	2764	(1)
Desert Flowers	2765	(2)
Breaking Tradition	2767	(1)
Recipe	2768	(1)
Pat Mora (b. 1942)	2769	(3)
Border Town: 1938	2770	(1)
Unnatural Speech	2770	(1)
University Avenue	2771	(1)
James Alan McPherson (b. 1943)	2772	(17)
A Solo Song: For Doc	2773	(16)
Lee Smith (b. 1944)	2789	(17)
The Bubba Stories	2791	(15)
Pedro Pietri (1944-2004)	2806	(10)
Puerto Rican Obituary	2807	(7)
Traffic Violations	2814	(2)
Richard Rodriguez (b. 1944)	2816	(5)
from The Hunger of Memory	2817	(4)
Alice Walker (b. 1944)	2821	(8)
Laurel	2822	(7)
Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna) (b. 1948)	2829	(8)
Lullaby	2830	(7)
Wendy Rose (Hopi) (b. 1948)	2837	(10)
Throat Song: The Rotating Earth	2838	(1)
Loo-wit	2839	(1)
To the Hopi in Richmond (Santa Fe Indian Village)	2840	(1)
If I Am Too Brown or Too White for You	2841	(1)
Story Keeper	2842	(3)
Julia	2845	(2)
Sandra Maria Esteves (b. 1948) and Luz Maria Umpierre (b. 1947): A Poetry Exchange	2847	(8)
A la Mujer Borrinqueña (Esteves)	2849	(1)
In Response (Umpierre)	2850	(1)
So Your Name Isn't Maria Cristina (Esteves)	2851	(2)
Music d'Orsay (Umpierre)	2853	(2)
Jessica Hagedorn (b. 1949)	2855	(18)
The Blossoming of BongBong	2856	(11)
The Death of Anna May Wong	2867	(1)
Filipino Boogie	2868	(2)
Homesick	2870	(2)
Vulva Operetta	2872	(1)
Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)	2873	(10)
Don't Tell Me You Don't Know	2874	(9)
Victor Hernandez Cruz (b. 1949)	2883	(5)
urban dream	2884	(1)
Mountain Building	2885	(2)
Table of Contents	2887	(1)
Carolyn Forché (b. 1950)	2888	(8)
from The Country Between Us	2889	(1)
The Colonel	2889	(1)
Because One Is Always Forgotten	2890	(1)
As Children Together	2890	(3)
from The Recording Angel	2893	(2)
Elegy	2895	(1)
Paula Vogel (b. 1951)	2896	(41)
How I Learned to Drive	2897	(40)
Karen Tei Yamashita (b. 1951)	2937	(4)
from Tropic of Orange	2938	(3)
2. Benefits - Koreatown	2938	(3)
Garrett Kaoru Hongo (b. 1951)	2941	(9)
Yellow Light	2942	(1)
Off from Swing Shift	2943	(2)
Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic?	2945	(1)
And Your Soul Shall Dance	2946	(1)
The Unreal Dwelling: My Years in Volcano	2947	(3)
Joy Harjo (Creek) (b. 1951)	2950	(10)
The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window	2951	(2)
New Orleans	2953	(2)
Remember	2955	(1)
Vision	2955	(1)
Anchorage	2956	(1)
Deer Dancer	2957	(2)
We Must Call a Meeting	2959	(1)
Tato Laveria (b. 1951)	2960	(6)
frio	2961	(1)
AmeRican	2962	(2)
Latero Story	2964	(2)
Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952)	2966	(4)
Claims	2967	(1)
The Woman Who Was Left at the Altar	2968	(1)
My Father in the Navy: A Childhood Memory	2968	(1)
En Mis Ojos No Hay Dias	2969	(1)
Latin Women Pray	2970	(1)
Rita Dove (b. 1952)	2970	(5)
Kentucky, 1833	2971	(1)
Ö	2972	(1)
Daystar	2972	(1)
The Oriental Ballerina	2973	(2)
Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952)	2975	(8)
Ducks	2976	(1)
Different Ways to Pray	2977	(1)
My Father and the Figtree	2978	(1)
Blood	2979	(1)
Where the Soft Air Lives	2980	(3)
Gary Soto (b. 1952)	2983	(6)
Braly Street	2984	(2)
The Cellar	2986	(1)
Mexicans Begin Jogging	2987	(1)
Black Hair	2988	(1)
Kearney Park	2988	(1)
Rane Arroyo (b. 1953)	2989	(6)
My Transvestite Uncle Is Missing	2990	(1)
Caribbean Braille	2991	(1)
Write What You Know	2992	(3)
That Flag	2995	(1)
Louise Erdrich (b. 1954)	2995	(20)
from Love Medicine	2997	(9)
Saint Marie (1934)	2997	(9)
Lorna Dee Cervantes (b. 1954)	3006	(1)
Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway	3007	(3)
Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person Could Believe in the War Between Races	3010	(1)
Macho	3011	(1)
Bananas	3012	(3)
Helena Maria Viramontes (b. 1954)	3015	(11)
The Cariboo Café	3017	(9)
Aurora Levins Morales (b. 1954)	3026	(5)
Child of the Americas	3027	(1)
Puertoricanness	3028	(2)
Heart of My Heart, Bone of My Bone	3030	(1)
Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954)	3031	(4)
Eleven	3033	(2)
Gish Jen (b. 1955)	3035	(11)
In the American Society	3036	(10)
Kimiko Hahn (b. 1955)	3046	(17)
Strands	3047	(2)
Resistance: A Poem on Ikat Cloth	3049	(8)
Cuttings	3057	(6)
Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)	3063	(5)
I Ask My Mother to Sing	3064	(1)
My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud	3065	(1)
With Ruins	3066	(1)
This Room and Everything in It	3066	(2)
David Foster Wallace (b. 1962)	3068	(3)
The Devil Is a Busy Man	3069	(2)
Chang-Rae Lee (b.1965)	3071	(8)
Coming Home Again	3072	(7)
Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)	3079	(7)
Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play "The Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock	3081	(5)
Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969)	3086	(5)
New York Day Women	3088	(3)
Minh Duc Nguyen	3091
Tale of Apricot	3093
Acknowledgments	A-1
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poems	I-1