Concise Anthology of American Literature

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

• ISBN13: 9780130289414
• ISBN10: 0130289418
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	xxix
The Literature of Colonial America	1	(188)
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)	13	(9)
Columbus's Letter Describing His First Voyage	15	(7)
The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America
Thursday 11 October 1492	19	(2)
Sunday 14 October 1492	21	(1)
Captain John Smith (1580-1631)	22	(15)
The General History of Virginia
The Third Book	24	(12)
Powhatan's Discourse of Peace and War	36	(1)
Native American Voices I	37	(15)
Myths and Tales	38	(14)
How the World Began	38	(8)
How the World Was Made	46	(1)
The Beginning of Summer and Winter	47	(2)
The Gift of the Sacred Pipe	49	(2)
Thunder, Dizzying Liquid, and Cups That Do Not Grow	51	(1)
William Bradford (1590-1657)	52	(16)
Of Plymouth Plantation
``Chapter IV, Showing the Reasons and Causes of Their Removal''	54	(2)
``Chapter VII, Of Their Departure from Leyden...''	56	(1)
``Chapter IX, Of Their Voyage...''	57	(3)
``Chapter X, Showing How They Sought Out a Place of Habitation...''	60	(2)
``Chapter XI [The Mayflower Compact]''	62	(3)
``Chapter XXVIII [The Pequot War]''	65	(2)
``Chapter XXXVI [Winslow's Final Departure]''	67	(1)
John Winthrop (1588-1649)	68	(11)
The Journal of John Winthrop	69	(10)
The Bay Psalm Book (1640)	79	(3)
The Bay Psalm Book	79	(3)
The New England Primer (c. 1683)	82	(7)
The New England Primer	83	(6)
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)	89	(20)
The Prologue	91	(1)
Contemplations	92	(7)
The Flesh and the Spirit	99	(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)
Us	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