Rhetorical Contents | p. xv |
Preface | p. xix |
Art and Composition | |
I Once Was Lost | p. 11 |
Self-portrait, Nov. 6, 2003 | p. 12 |
Self-portrait in Furcoat | p. 13 |
The Great Helmsman | p. 14 |
Rockefeller Center | p. 15 |
Orchestrating the Drama | p. 16 |
Autopsy with Brain | p. 16 |
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider | p. 17 |
Judith and Her Maidservant | p. 17 |
The Mystery Play, 1994 | p. 18 |
The Search for Self | |
Notebook | |
Prater Violet | p. 22 |
Influences | p. 28 |
Personal Reminiscences | |
So This Was Adolescence | p. 36 |
Anarchy in the Tenth Grade | p. 39 |
On Being a Cripple | p. 43 |
Borges and I | p. 54 |
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self | p. 55 |
How It Feels to Be Colored Me | p. 63 |
Fiction | |
Indian Camp | p. 68 |
Hips | p. 72 |
Get Lost | p. 75 |
Poetry | |
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | p. 82 |
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower | p. 87 |
In Mind | p. 89 |
Her Kind | p. 90 |
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing | p. 92 |
The Waking | p. 94 |
The God Who Loves You | p. 96 |
Personal Relationships: Parents and Children | |
Notebook | |
Die Grosse Liebe | p. 100 |
All of Heaven for Love | p. 112 |
Personal Reminiscences | |
The Way We Are | p. 116 |
Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood | p. 121 |
Essays | |
Sura 12. Joseph | p. 126 |
Somebody's Baby | p. 133 |
Fiction | |
Selection from Breath, Eyes, Memory | p. 139 |
The Trouble with Mrs. Blynn, the Trouble with the World | p. 145 |
The Use of Force | p. 152 |
A Wedge of Shade | p. 157 |
Instrument of Destruction | p. 166 |
Poetry | |
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) | p. 172 |
To My Father | p. 176 |
My father moved through dooms of love | p. 177 |
Daddy | p. 180 |
My Papa's Waltz | p. 183 |
A Prayer for My Daughter | p. 184 |
"Life for my child is simple, and is good" | p. 187 |
Personal Relatinships: Men and Women | |
Notebook | |
Arms and the Man | p. 190 |
What Are Men Good For? | p. 205 |
Personal Reminiscences | |
If Love Were All | p. 215 |
Essays | |
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | p. 223 |
Give Her a Pattern | p. 226 |
The Angel in the House | p. 230 |
Fiction: Happy Endings | p. 235 |
Fiction | |
A Respectable Woman | p. 241 |
The Sojourner | p. 245 |
Poetry | |
When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes (Sonnet 29) | p. 254 |
Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds (Sonnet 116) | p. 255 |
The Clod and the Pebble | p. 256 |
The Garden of Love | p. 256 |
Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love | p. 257 |
Beauty and the Beast | p. 259 |
Women | p. 260 |
Marriage | p. 262 |
The Marriage | p. 265 |
I like my body when it is with your | p. 267 |
After Drinking All Night with a Friend, We Go Out in a Boat at Dawn to See Who Can Write the Best Poem | p. 268 |
The Cultural Tradition: Popular Culture | |
Notebook | |
Wonder Woman | p. 272 |
Fantasy's Power and Peril | p. 281 |
Personal Reminiscences | |
Black Music in Our Hands | p. 286 |
The Women's Open | p. 290 |
Essays | |
Great Movies | p. 296 |
The Internet | p. 299 |
You've Got Blog | p. 311 |
Fast Food Nation | p. 317 |
Germaine Greer's "Cruelty TV" | p. 327 |
Talk Radio, Persuasion, and American Political Behavior | p. 330 |
I'm Like a Bird | p. 337 |
The Protean N-Word | p. 339 |
Poetry | |
A Poem for Ella Fitzgerald | p. 350 |
The Cultural Tradition: Art, the Artist, and Society | |
Notebook | |
Two Worlds: Nobel Lecture 2001 | p. 356 |
On Writing | p. 367 |
On Becoming a Writer | p. 371 |
Where Does Writing Come From? | p. 378 |
The Nature of the Problem | p. 384 |
Essays | |
Art for Art's Sake | p. 388 |
Ultimate Discourse | p. 394 |
Playing Upon the Strings of Emptiness | p. 397 |
How We Listen to Music | p. 403 |
The Age of Modernism | p. 409 |
Who Needs Classical Music? | p. 414 |
Intervention #1: Musical Openings | p. 417 |
Pornography | p. 428 |
Uses of Photography | p. 434 |
Fiction | |
The Sculptor's Funeral | p. 443 |
Poetry | |
Poetry | p. 455 |
Persimmons | p. 457 |
Ocean Is a Word in this Poem | p. 460 |
Poets to Come | p. 461 |
Science, the Environment, and the Future | |
Notebook | |
Why I Went to the Woods | p. 464 |
A Letter to Thoreau | p. 470 |
Personal Reminiscences | |
Can Science Be Ethical? | p. 481 |
Essays | |
Great Plains of the Arctic | p. 491 |
A Clone Is Born | p. 501 |
Free Will | p. 516 |
Creationism Isn't Science | p. 526 |
Seeing Through Computers | p. 534 |
The Individual in the New Age | p. 545 |
Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie | p. 550 |
The New Girls Network: Women, Technology, and Feminism | p. 553 |
Poetry | |
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer | p. 566 |
Letter to the Dead | p. 567 |
Freedom and Human Dignity | |
Notebook | |
I Have a Dream | p. 572 |
Martin Luther King | p. 576 |
Personal Reminiscences | |
Growing Up Gay | p. 578 |
On Being Crazy | p. 582 |
The Ethics of Living Jim Crow | p. 584 |
Essays | |
The Declaration of Independence | p. 595 |
The Declaration of the Rights of Man | p. 599 |
Seneca Falls Convention | p. 602 |
The Gettysburg Address | p. 607 |
Nobel Prize Award Speech | p. 609 |
The Principles of Newspeak | p. 611 |
The Women | p. 622 |
His Message of Surrender | p. 627 |
Speech on the Signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott | p. 628 |
The Crito | p. 632 |
A Moral Choice | p. 645 |
The Dramaturgy of Death | p. 653 |
Fiction | |
Dry September | p. 666 |
Poetry | |
Tom, Dying of AIDS | p. 677 |
Dover Beach | p. 678 |
About Face (A Poem Called "Dover Beach") | p. 680 |
The Dover Bitch | p. 682 |
Globalism, Nationalism, and Cultural Identity | |
Notebook | |
The City and the Pillars | p. 686 |
Legacy of the Prophet | p. 692 |
The America I Love | p. 695 |
Personal Reminiscences | |
Hispanic | p. 699 |
Essays | |
Leading Beyond the Nation-State | p. 711 |
Regarding the Pain of Others | p. 716 |
War on Trial | p. 720 |
The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American | p. 730 |
On Being Black and Middle Class | p. 735 |
Loneliness...and American Malady | p. 745 |
Of Cruelty and Clemency, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved or Feared | p. 748 |
Love Can Be Kept Only by Being Given Away | p. 751 |
Poetry | |
Dulce et Decorum Est | p. 757 |
The Unknown Citizen | p. 758 |
Prisoners from the Front | p. 760 |
Night Subway | p. 762 |
Drama | |
Homebody/Kabul | p. 764 |
The History of Latin America | p. 789 |
L'Histoire Chinoise | p. 795 |
The Examined Life: Education | |
Notebook | |
A Homemade Education | p. 800 |
The Bet | p. 807 |
Personal Reminiscences | |
A Last Look Around | p. 814 |
Three Days to See | p. 823 |
Essays | |
The Child's Need for Magic | p. 832 |
The Great Imagination Heist | p. 840 |
Science Fiction: Imaginary Worlds and Real-Life Questions | p. 842 |
What We Did and Why We Did It | p. 847 |
Bad Behavior | p. 857 |
Why Read the Classics? | p. 860 |
The Death of the Author | p. 865 |
Humanities and Science | p. 870 |
The Merits of Meritocracy | p. 878 |
Teaching Students to Swim in the Online Sea | p. 881 |
Learning to See the Miraculous | p. 884 |
Fiction | |
Waverly Jong: Rules of the Game | p. 890 |
Poetry | |
Theme for English B | p. 900 |
Hear It Again | p. 902 |
Glossary | p. 905 |
Credits | p. 913 |
Author/Artist and Title Index | p. 923 |
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