The Heath Anthology of American Literature, 4/e

Paul Lauter, General Editor, Trinity College
Richard Yarborough, Associate General Editor, University of California, Los Angeles
Jackson Bryer, University of Maryland
Anne Goodwyn Jones, University of Florida
King-Kok Cheung, University of California, Los Angeles
Wendy Martin, Claremont Graduate University
Charles Molesworth, Queens College-City University of New York
Raymund Paredes, University of California, Los Angeles
Ivy T. Schweitzer, Dartmouth College
Linda Wagner-Martin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Andrew O. Wiget, New Mexico State University
Sandra A. Zagarell, Oberlin College
James Kyung-Jin Lee, Associate Editor, The University of Texas, Austin

Contents

Volume 2

• Late Nineteenth Century: 1865-1910
  • Nation Regions, Borders
    • African American Folktales
      • Animal Tales
        • When Brer Deer and Brer Terrapin Runned a Race
        • Why Mr. Dog Runs Brer Rabbit
        • How Sandy Got His Meat
        • Who Ate Up the Butter?
        • Fox and Rabbit in the Well
        • The Signifying Monkey
      • Memories of Slavery
        • Malitis
        • The Flying Africans
      • Conjure Stories
        • Two Tales from Eatonville, Florida
      • John and Old Marster
        • Master Disguised
        • The Diviner
        • Massa and the Bear
        • Baby in the Crib
        • John Steals a Pig and a Sheep
        • Talking Bones
        • Old Boss Wants into Heaven
    • Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910)
      • Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog
      • Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
      • A True Story
      • The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
      • from Seventieth Birthday Speech
      • The War Prayer
    • Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)
      • Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
        • II. The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story
        • IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox
      • Free Joe, and Other Georgian Sketches
        • Free Joe and the Rest of the World
    • Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932)
      • The Goophered Grapevine
      • Po' Sandy
      • The Wife of His Youth
      • The Passing of Grandison
    • Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
      • Mr. Cornelius Johnson, Office-Seeker
      • Lyrics of Lowly Life
        • Frederick Douglass
        • An Ante-Bellum Sermon
        • We Wear the Mask
        • When Malindy Sings
      • Lyrics of the Hearthside
        • Sympathy
    • George Washington Cable (1844-1925)
      • 'Tite Poulette
    • Grace King (1852-1932)
      • The Little Convent Girl
    • Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
      • Sister Josepha
    • Ghost Dance Songs
      • Ghost Dance Songs
    • Alexander Lawrence Posey (1873-1908)
      • Ode to Sequoyah
      • Hotgun on the Death of Yadeka Harjo
      • Fus Fixico's Letter Number 44
    • John Milton Oskison (1874-1947)
      • The Problem of Old Harjo
    • Corridos
      • Kiansis I/Kansas I
      • Gregorio Cortez
      • Jacinto Treviño
      • El Hijo Desobediente/The Disobedient Son
      • Recordando al Presidente/Remembering the President
      • Corrido do César Chávez/Ballad of César Chávez
    • María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832-1895)
      • The Squatter and the Don
        • Chapter V. The Don in His Broad Acres
    • William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
      • Suburban Sketches
        • Scene
      • from The Editor's Study
      • from Criticism and Fiction
      • Letters to the Editor of the New York Tribune
      • Mary E. Wilkins's Short Stories
      • Paul Laurence Dunbar
      • Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt's Stories
      • Editha
    • Henry James (1843-1916)
      • Daisy Miller: A Study
      • The Art of Fiction
      • The Beast in the Jungle
    • Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
      • Désirée's Baby The Awakening
    • Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
      • Chickamauga
    • Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
      • Up the Coulé
    • Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
      • A Mystery of Heroism
      • The Open Boat
      • The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
      • The Black Riders and Other Lines
        • God Lay Dead in Heaven
      • War Is Kind
        • Do Not Weep, Maiden, For War Is Kind
        • The Impact of a Dollar upon the Heart
        • A Man Said to the Universe
        • A Newspaper Is a Collection of Half-Injustices
      • There Was a Man with Tongue of Wood.
      • Uncollected Poems
        • Chant You Loud of Punishments
    • Jack London (1876-1916)
      • South of the Slot
  • Critical Visions of Postbellum America
    • Standing Bear (Machunazha Ponca) (1829-1908)
      • What I Am Going to Tell You Here Will Take Me Until Dark
    • Charles Alexander Eastman (Sioux) (1858-1939)
      • The Soul of the Indian
        • I. The Great Mystery
      • The Deep Woods to Civilization
        • VII. The Ghost Dance War
    • Sarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony; Paiute) (c. 1844-1891)
      • Life Among the Piutes
        • Chapter I. First Meeting of Piutes and Whites
    • Marietta Holley (pseud. "Josiah Allen's Wife") (1836-1926)
      • Samantha Among the Brethren
        • Chapter XIX
    • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
      • Aunt Chloe's Politics
      • Learning to Read
      • The Martyr of Alabama
      • A Double Standard
      • Songs for the People
      • Woman's Political Future
    • Anna Julia Cooper (1858?-1964)
      • A Voice from the South
        • Our Raison D'être
        • Woman Versus the Indian
    • Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
      • The Yellow Wall-Paper
      • Turned
    • Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936)
      • The Wanderers
      • The Popularity of Firemen
      • The Piano in the Parlor
      • Immigration
    • Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)
      • The Jungle
        • from Chapter II
        • from Chapter IX
        • from Chapter XI
        • from Chapter XII
        • from Chapter XIV
    • Henry Adams (1838-1918)
      • Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
        • Chapter VI. The Virgin of Chartres
      • The Education of Henry Adams
        • Chapter XXV. The Dynamo and the Virgin
  • Developments in Women's Writing
    • Julia A. J. Foote (1823-1900)
      • A Brand Plucked from the Fire
        • Chapter XVII. My Call to Preach the Gospel
        • Chapter XIX. Public Effort--Excommunication
        • Chapter XX. Women in the Gospel
    • Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
      • My Contraband
    • Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)
      • Circumstance
    • Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)
      • Miss Grief
    • Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
      • A White Heron
      • The Foreigner
    • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)
      • A New England Nun
      • The Revolt of "Mother"
      • Old Woman Magoun
    • Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930)
      • A Dash for Liberty
      • As the Lord Lives, He Is One of Our Mother's Children
  • A Sheaf of Poetry by Late-Nineteenth-Century American Women
    • Adah Menken (1835?-1868)
      • Judith
    • Celia Thaxter (1835-1894)
      • In Kittery Churchyard
      • Wherefore
    • Sarah M. B. Piatt (1836-1916)
      • Giving Back the Flower
      • Shapes of a Soul
      • The Palace-Burner
      • We Two
      • His Mother's Way
    • Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
      • Her Prayer
      • Illusion
      • Goddess of Liberty, Answer
    • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)
      • Love and the Witches
    • Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)
      • Emily
      • Telling the Bees
      • Drought
      • Spring Ecstasy
    • Sophie Jewett (1861-1909)
      • Entre Nous
      • Armistice
      • I Speak Your Name
    • E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (1861-1913)
      • The Camper
      • The Corn Husker
      • The Indian Corn Planter
    • Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920)
      • Hylas
      • Monochrome
      • Charista Musing
    • Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863-1953)
      • The Wood-Chopper to His Ax
      • The Cross and the Pagan
    • Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
      • I Sit and Sew
      • You! Inez!
      • The Proletariat Speaks
    • Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn (1876-1959)
      • Behold the Lillies
  • The Making of "Americans"
    • Abraham Cahan (1860-1951)
      • Yekl
        • 4. The Meeting
        • 9. The Parting
        • 10. A Defeated Victor
    • Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far) (1865-1914)
      • Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian
      • Mrs. Spring Fragrance
        • In the Land of the Free
    • Mary Austin (1868-1934)
      • Earth Horizon
        • III
    • Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa; Sioux) (1876-1938)
      • The School Days of an Indian Girl
        • I. The Land of Red Apples
        • II. The Cutting of My Long Hair
        • III. The Snow Episode
        • VI. Four Strange Summers
        • VII. Incurring My Mother's Displeasure
      • Why I Am a Pagan
    • Mary Antin (1881-1949)
      • The Promised Land
        • from Chapter IX
    • José Martí (1853-1895)
      • Our America
• Modern Period: 1910-1945
  • Toward the Modern Age
    • Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
      • Up from Slavery
        • Chapter I. A Slave Among Slaves
        • Chapter III. The Struggle for an Education
        • Chapter VI. Black Race and Red Race
        • Chapter XIII. Two Thousand Miles for a Five-Minute Speech
        • Chapter XIV. The Atlanta Exposition Address
    • W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
      • The Souls of Black Folk
        • I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings
        • III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
        • XIV. Of the Sorrow Songs
      • The Song of the Smoke
    • James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
      • Lift Every Voice and Sing
      • O Black and Unknown Bards
      • Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
        • Chapter X
      • The Creation
    • Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
      • The Clerks
      • Aunt Imogen
      • Momus
      • Eros Turannos
      • The Tree in Pamela's Garden
      • Mr. Flood's Party
    • Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)
      • The Professional Instinct
    • Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
      • The Valley of Childish Things
      • Souls Belated
      • The Other Two
      • The Life Apart
      • The Eyes
      • Roman Fever
    • Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950)
      • Spoon River Anthology
        • Petit, the Poet
        • Seth Compton
        • Lucinda Matlock
        • The Village Atheist
      • The New Spoon River
        • Cleanthus Trilling
      • Lichee Nuts
        • Ascetics and Drunkards
        • Great Audiences and Great Poets
      • The Harmony of Deeper Music
        • Not to See Sandridge Again
    • Willa Cather (1873-1947)
      • Coming, Aphrodite!
    • Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)
      • Trifles
    • Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)
      • Credo
      • Rock and Hawk
      • The Purse-Seine
      • Self-Criticism in February
      • The Bloody Sire
      • The Excesses of God
      • Cassandra
      • The Beauty of Things
      • Carmel Point
    • Robert Frost (1874-1963)
      • The Pasture
      • Mending Wall
      • The Road Not Taken
      • An Old Man's Winter Night
      • The Oven Bird
      • Out, Out--
      • The Line-Gang
      • The Ax-Helve
      • Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
      • Desert Places
      • Once by the Pacific
      • Design
      • Provide, Provide
      • Directive
    • Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
      • Hands
      • Death in the Woods
    • Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
      • Typhoon
    • Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
      • Spring
      • The Spring and the Fall
      • [Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare]
      • Dirge Without Music
      • [Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink]
      • The Return
      • [Here lies, and none to mourn him but the sea]
      • [His stalk the dark delphinium]
      • Sonnet xli
      • Sonnet xcv
      • Justice Denied in Massachusetts
  • Alienation and Literary Experimentation
    • Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
      • A Virginal
      • A Pact
      • In a Station of the Metro
      • L'art, 1910
      • A Retrospect
      • Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts)
        • E.P. Ode Pour L'election de Son Sepulchre
        • Siena mi fe'; Disfecemi Maremma
        • Brennbaum
        • Mr. Nixon
        • Envoi (1919)
      • The Cantos
        • I [And then went down to the ship]
        • XIII [Kung walked]
        • XLV [With Usura]
        • LXXXI [Yet/Ere the season died a-cold]
        • CXX [I have tried to write Paradise]
    • Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
      • A Lady
      • Patterns
      • The Letter
      • Summer Rain
      • Venus Transiens
      • Madonna of the Evening Flowers
      • Opal
      • Wakefulness
      • Grotesque
      • The Sisters
    • Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
      • from The Making of Americans
      • Susie Asado
      • Preciosilla
      • Ladies' Voices
      • from Composition as Explanation
      • from The Geographical History of America or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind
      • from The Mother of Us All
    • William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
      • Danse Russe
      • The Young Housewife
      • Portrait of a Lady
      • The Great Figure
      • Spring and All
      • The Pot of Flowers
      • The Rose
      • To Elsie
      • The Red Wheelbarrow
      • Young Sycamore
      • The Flower
      • The Poor
      • Burning the Christmas Greens
      • The Descent
      • The Pink Locust
    • Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
      • The Hairy Ape
    • Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)
      • Smoke
    • Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941)
      • Death at Bearwallow
    • H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)
      • Sea Rose
      • The Helmsman
      • Oread
      • Helen
      • Trilogy
        • from The Walls Do Not Fall [43]
        • from Tribute to the Angels [8, 12, 19, 20, 23, 43]
  • A Sheaf of Political Poetry in the Modern Period
    • Joseph Kalar (1906-1972)
      • Papermill
    • Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961)
      • Dirge
      • 1933
    • Alfred Hayes (1911-1985)
      • In a Coffee Pot
    • Tillie Lerner Olsen (b. 1913)
      • I Want You Women Up North to Know
    • Kay Boyle (1903-1993)
      • A Communication to Nancy Cunard
    • Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
      • Goodbye Christ
      • Come to the Waldorf-Astoria
      • Air Raid over Harlem
    • Lola Ridge (1871-1941)
      • Stone Face
    • Edwin Rolfe (1909-1954)
      • Asbestos
      • Season of Death
      • First Love
      • Elegia
    • Genevieve Taggard (1894-1948)
      • Up State--Depression Summer
      • To the Negro People
      • Ode in Time of Crisis
      • To the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
    • E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
      • [Buffalo Bill's]
      • [into the strenuous briefness]
      • [the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls]
      • [i like my body when it is with your]
      • [my sweet old etcetera]
      • [since feeling is first]
      • [i sing of Olaf glad and big]
      • [Picasso]
      • [anyone lived in a pretty how town]
      • [plato told]
      • [what if a much of a which of a wind]
      • [pity this busy monster, manunkind]
    • T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
      • The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
      • Preludes
      • Tradition and the Individual Talent
      • The Waste Land
      • The Dry Salvages
    • F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
      • May Day
      • The Diamond Big as the Ritz
    • Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
      • The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
      • Flowering Judas
    • Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
      • Poetry
      • England
      • To a Chameleon
      • An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish
      • The Pangolin
      • What Are Years?
      • Nevertheless
      • The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing
    • Louise Bogan (1897-1970)
      • Women
      • The Sleeping Fury
      • Roman Fountain
      • After the Persian
      • The Dragonfly
      • Night
    • Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
      • Hills Like White Elephants
      • A Farewell to Arms
        • Chapter XXVII
    • Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
      • Sunday Morning
      • The Snow Man
      • Peter Quince at the Clavier
      • Anecdote of the Jar
      • A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
      • Of Modern Poetry
      • The Course of a Particular
      • Of Mere Being
    • William Faulkner (1897-1962)
      • A Courtship
      • Delta Autumn
      • Barn Burning
    • Hart Crane (1899-1932)
      • Black Tambourine
      • Chaplinesque
      • At Melville's Tomb
      • The Bridge
        • To Brooklyn Bridge
        • The River
      • The Broken Tower
  • The New Negro Renaissance
    • Alain Locke (1885-1954)
      • The New Negro
    • Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
      • Cane
        • Karintha
        • Song of the Son
        • Blood-Burning Moon
        • Seventh Street
        • Box Seat
    • Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
      • The Negro Speaks of Rivers
      • The Weary Blues
      • Drum
      • The Same
      • The English
      • Johannesburg Mines
      • Negro
      • Bad Luck Card
      • I, Too
      • Dream Variations
      • Harlem
      • Freedom Train
      • Big Meeting
      • The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
      • When the Negro Was in Vogue
      • Radioactive Red Caps
      • Thank You, M'am
    • Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
      • Incident
      • From the Dark Tower
      • Simon the Cyrenian Speaks
      • Yet Do I Marvel
      • Pagan Prayer
      • Heritage
      • Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song
    • Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902-1981)
      • Heritage
      • To Usward
      • Advice
      • Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas
    • Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989)
      • When de Saints Go Ma'ching Home
      • Strong Men
      • Ma Rainey
      • Slim in Hell
      • Remembering Nat Turner
      • Song of Triumph
    • Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
      • Sweat
      • The Gilded Six-Bits
    • Claude McKay (1889-1948)
      • The Harlem Dancer
      • If We Must Die
      • The Lynching
      • Harlem Shadows
      • I Shall Return
      • America
      • In Bondage
      • Flame-Heart
      • Flower of Love
      • A Red Flower
    • Anne Spencer (1882-1975)
      • Lines to a Nasturtium
      • Substitution
      • For Jim, Easter Eve
    • Nella Larsen (1891-1964)
      • Passing
        • One
        • Two
    • George Samuel Schuyler (1895-1977)
      • Our Greatest Gift to America
      • The Negro-Art Hokum
    • Blues Lyrics
      • Blues Lyrics
  • Issues and Visions in Modern America
    • Randolph Bourne (1886-1918)
      • Trans-National America
    • Anzia Yezierska (1881?-1970)
      • America and I
    • Michael Gold (1893-1967)
      • Jews Without Money
        • The Soul of a Landlord
    • H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
      • The Sahara of the Bozarts
    • John dos Passos (1896-1970)
      • U.S.A.
        • The Body of an American
        • The Bitter Drink
    • Albert Maltz (1908-1985)
      • The Happiest Man on Earth
    • Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)
      • from Scoundrel Time
    • Mary McCarthy (1912-1989)
      • Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
        • Names
    • Clifford Odets (1906-1963)
      • Waiting for Lefty
    • Meridel LeSueur (1900-1996)
      • Women on the Breadlines
    • Mourning Dove (Okanogan) (1888-1936)
      • Coyote Stories
        • Preface
        • I. The Spirit Chief Names the Animal People
    • John Joseph Mathews (Osage) (1894-1979)
      • Sundown
        • I
        • II
    • Thomas S. Whitecloud (Chippewa) (1914-1972)
      • Blue Winds Dancing
    • D'arcy McNickle (1904-1977)
      • Hard Riding
    • Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
      • Founding Fathers, Early-Nineteenth-Century Style, Southeast U.S.A.
      • Infant Boy at Midcentury
      • The Leaf
      • Evening Hawk
      • Heart of Autumn
      • Amazing Grace in the Back Country
      • Fear and Trembling
    • John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)
      • Here Lies a Lady
      • Philomela
      • Piazza Piece
      • The Equilibrists
    • Allen Tate (1899-1979)
      • Ode to the Confederate Dead
    • Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)
      • [How shall we mourn you who are killed and wasted]
      • Aphrodite Vrania
      • [The shoemaker sat in the cellar's dusk beside his bench]
      • Hellenist
      • [In steel clouds]
      • [About an excavation]
      • After Rain
      • [Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies]
      • The English in Virginia, April 1607
      • Testimony
        • I
        • II
      • Children
    • John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
      • The Chrysanthemums
      • The Grapes of Wrath
        • Chapter One
        • Chapter Five
    • Richard Wright (1908-1960)
      • Bright and Morning Star
      • Between the World and Me
    • Margaret Walker (1915-1998)
      • Jubilee
        • 7. Cook in the Big House
        • 8. Randall Ware
      • Southern Song
      • For My People
      • Ballad of the Hoppy-Toad
      • Solace
      • The Crystal Palace
    • Saunders Redding (1906-1988)
      • No Day of Triumph
        • Chapter One. Troubled in Mind
    • Pietro Di Donato (1911-1992)
      • Christ in Concrete
    • Younghill Kang (1903-1972)
      • East Goes West
        • Part One, Book Three
    • Carved on the Walls: Poetry by Early Chinese Immigrants
      • The Voyage
        • 5 [Four days before the Qiqiao Festival]
        • 8 [Instead of remaining a citizen of China, I willingly became an ox]
      • The Detainment
        • 20 [Imprisonment at Youli, when will it end?]
        • 30 [After leaping into prison, I cannot come out]
        • 31 [There are tens of thousands of poems composed on these walls]
      • The Weak Shall Conquer
        • 35 [Leaving behind my writing brush and removing my sword, I came to America]
        • 38 [Being idle in the wooden building, I opened a window]
        • 42 [The dragon out of water is humiliated by ants]
      • About Westerners
        • 51 [I hastened here for the sake of my stomach and landed promptly in jail]
        • 55 [Shocking news, truly sad, reached my ears]
      • Deportees, Transients
        • 57 [On a long voyage I travelled across the sea]
        • 64 Crude Poem Inspired by the Landscape
        • 69 [Detained in this wooden house for several tens of days]
• Contemporary Period: 1945 to the Present
  • Orthodoxy and Resistance: Cold War Culture and Its Discontents
    • Arthur Miller (b. 1915)
      • The Crucible
    • Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
      • Portrait of a Madonna
    • Eudora Welty (b. 1909)
      • The Wide Net
    • Ann Petry (1908-1997)
      • The Witness
    • Carlos Bulosan (1913-1956)
      • America Is in the Heart
        • from Chapter XIII
        • from Chapter XIV
    • Mario Suárez (1925-1998)
      • El Hoyo
      • Señor Garza
      • Kid Zopilote
    • Frank Chin (b. 1940)
      • Railroad Standard Time
    • Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
      • A Good Man Is Hard to Find
    • Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
      • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
    • John Updike (b. 1932)
      • Separating
    • Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-1994)
      • A Party Down at the Square
      • Flying Home
      • Brave Words for a Startling Occasion
    • James Baldwin (1924-1987)
      • Sonny's Blues
    • Paule Marshall (b. 1929)
      • To Da-duh: In Memoriam
    • John Okada (1923-1971)
      • No-No Boy
        • Chapter Six
    • Tillie Lerner Olsen (b. 1912)
      • Tell Me a Riddle
    • Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)
      • Absalom
      • The Minotaur
      • Rite
      • The Poem as Mask
      • Martin Luther King, Malcolm X
      • How We Did It
    • Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
      • Tour 5
      • Those Winter Sundays
      • Summertime and the Living...
      • Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday
    • Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
      • Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze
      • Root Cellar
      • Big Wind
      • The Lost Son
        • 1. The Flight
        • 4. The Return
        • 5. It was beginning winter
      • Meditations of an Old Woman
        • First Meditation
        • from Fourth Meditation
      • Elegy
    • Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
      • The Fish
      • The Man-Moth
      • At the Fishhouses
      • Filling Station
    • Robert Lowell, Jr. (1917-1977)
      • Memories of West Street and Lepke
      • Skunk Hour
      • For Theodore Roethke
      • For the Union Dead
      • Near the Ocean
    • Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
      • The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith
      • The Mother
      • We Real Cool
      • A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a
      • Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon
      • The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmet Till
      • Ulysses
        • Religion
  • The Beat Movement
    • Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
      • A Supermarket in California
      • Howl
      • America
    • Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
      • The Vanishing American Hobo
    • Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)
      • I Am Waiting
      • Dove Sta Amore...
      • The Old Italians Dying
    • Robert Creeley (b. 1926)
      • Hart Crane
      • I Know a Man
      • For Love
      • Words
      • America
    • Charles Olson (1910-1970)
      • The Kingfishers
      • For Sappho, Back
      • I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
      • Maximus, to himself
    • Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
      • Riprap
      • Vapor Trails
      • Wave
      • It Was When
    • Denise Levertov (1923-1997)
      • Illustrious Ancestors
      • A Solitude
      • Making Peace
      • A Woman Alone
      • The May Mornings
    • Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)
      • My Heart
      • The Day Lady Died
      • Why I Am Not a Painter
      • Poem
    • James Wright (1927-1980)
      • Saint Judas
      • Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
      • Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
      • A Centenary Ode: Inscribed to Little Crow, Leader of the Sioux Rebellion in Minnesota, 1862
    • Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
      • For a Fatherless Son
      • Daddy
      • Lady Lazarus
      • Stings
      • Fever 103°
    • Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
      • Her Kind
      • Housewife
      • Young
      • Somewhere in Africa
  • New Communities, New Identities, New Energies
    • Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (1930-1965)
      • A Raisin in the Sun
    • Edward Albee (b. 1928)
      • The Sand Box
    • Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
      • I Have a Dream
      • I've Been to the Mountaintop
    • Malcolm X (1925-1965)
      • The Ballot or the Bullet
    • Saul Bellow (b. 1915)
      • Looking for Mr. Green
    • Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)
      • The Magic Barrel
    • Grace Paley (b. 1922)
      • The Expensive Moment
    • Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928)
      • The Shawl
    • Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
      • Diving into the Wreck
      • From a Survivor
      • Power
      • Not Somewhere Else, but Here
      • Coast to Coast
      • Frame
    • Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921)
      • Seventeen Syllables
    • Lawson Fusao Inada (b. 1938)
      • Instructions to All Persons
      • Two Variations on a Theme by Thelonius Monk as Inspired by Mal Waldron
        • I. Blue Monk (linear)
        • II. Blue Monk (percussive)
      • Kicking the Habit
      • On Being Asian American
    • James Merrill (1926-1995)
      • An Urban Convalescence
      • The Broken Home
      • The Victor Dog
    • John Ashbery (b. 1927)
      • The Instruction Manual
      • Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape
      • As You Came from the Holy Land
    • Pedro Pietri (b. 1944)
      • Puerto Rican Obituary
      • Traffic Violations
    • Rudolfo A. Anaya (b. 1937)
      • Bless Me, Ultima
        • Dieciocho
    • Richard Rodriguez (b. 1944)
      • from The Hunger of Memory
    • Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934)
      • An Agony. As now.
      • Ka 'Ba
      • Black People: This Is Our Destiny
      • A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand
      • Numbers, Letters
      • Dutchman
    • Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934)
      • to blk/record/buyers
      • Masks
      • Just Don't Never Give Up on Love
      • A Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King
      • Father and Daughter
    • June Jordan (b. 1936)
      • Poem About My Rights
      • To Free Nelson Mandela
      • Moving Towards Home
    • Etheridge Knight (1931-1991)
      • The Idea of Ancestry
      • The Violent Space (or when your sister sleeps around for money)
      • Ilu, the Talking Drum
      • A Poem for Myself (Or Blues for a Mississippi Black Boy)
    • Alice Walker (b. 1944)
      • Nineteen Fifty-Five
    • James Alan McPherson (b. 1943)
      • A Solo Song: For Doc
    • Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933)
      • The Sky Is Gray
    • Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)
      • My Man Bovanne
    • Lucille Clifton (b. 1936)
      • the thirty eighth year
      • i am accused of tending to the past
      • at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989
      • reply
      • in white america
    • N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) (b. 1934)
      • The Way to Rainy Mountain
        • Headwaters
        • Prologue
        • from the Introduction
        • IV
        • XVI
        • XVII
        • XXIV
        • Epilogue
        • Rainy Mountain Cemetery
    • James Welch (Blackfeet-Gros Ventre) (b. 1940)
      • Winter in the Blood
      • Part Four
  • Vietnam Conflict
    • Michael Herr (b. 1940)
      • from Dispatches
    • Tim O'Brien (b. 1946)
      • In the Field
    • Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
      • from The Armies of the Night
    • Robert Bly (b. 1926)
      • Counting Small-Boned Bodies
      • The Teeth Mother Naked at Last
    • Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)
      • Tu Do Street
      • Prisoners
      • Thanks
      • Facing It
      • Fog Galleon
    • Carolyn Forché (b. 1950)
      • The Country Between Us
        • The Colonel
      • Because One Is Always Forgotten
      • As Children Together
      • from The Recording Angel
      • Elegy
    • Tomás Rivera (1935-1984)
      • from ...y no se lo tragó la tierra/ And the Earth Did Not Devour Him
      Nicholasa Mohr (b. 1938)
      • from Rituals of Survival
    • Pat Mora (b. 1942)
      • Border Town: 1938
      • Unnatural Speech
      • University Avenue
    • Víctor Hernández Cruz (b. 1949)
      • urban dream
      • Mountain Building
      • Table of Contents
    • Garrett Kaoru Hongo (b. 1951)
      • Yellow Light
      • Off from Swing Shift
      • Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic?
      • And Your Soul Shall Dance
      • The Unreal Dwelling: My Years in Volcano
    • Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)
      • Song: I Want a Witness
      • Nightmare Begins Responsibility
      • Here Where Coltrane Is
      • A Narrative of the Life and Times of John Coltrane: Played by Himself
      • Camp Story
  • Postmodernity and Difference: Promises and Threats
    • John Barth (b. 1930)
      • Lost in the Funhouse
    • Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)
      • At the End of the Mechanical Age
    • Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937)
      • Entrophy
    • Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
      • Sula
        • 1922
    • Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
      • I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra
      • Flight to Canada
      • Mumbo Jumbo
        • Chapter 10
    • Karen Tei Yamashita (b. 1951)
      • Tropic of Orange
        • 2. Benefits--Koreatown
    • Jessica Hagedorn (b. 1949)
      • The Blossoming of BongBong
      • The Death of Anna May Wong
      • Filipino Boogie
      • Homesick
      • Vulva Operetta
    • Lee Smith (b. 1944)
      • The Bubba Stories
    • Dorothy Allison (b.1949)
      • Don't Tell Me You Don't Know
    • Sherman Alexie (Spokane--Coeur d'Alene) (b.1966)
      • Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play "The Star-Spangled Babber" at Woodstock
    • Rolando Hinojosa-Smith (b. 1929)
      • Sometimes It Just Happens That Way; That's All
    • Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
      • Power
      • Walking Our Boundaries
      • Never Take Fire from a Woman
      • The Art of Response
      • Stations
      • The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
    • John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941)
      • Valaida
    • Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)
      • The Woman Warrior
        • White Tigers
    • Gish Jen (b. 1955)
      • In the American Society
    • Janice Mirikitani (b. 1942)
      • For My Father
      • Desert Flowers
      • Breaking Tradition
      • Recipe
    • Kimiko Hahn (b. 1955)
      • Strands
      • Resistance: A Poem on Ikat Cloth
      • Cuttings
    • Gloria Anzaldúa (b. 1942)
      • Borderlands/La Frontera
        • 3. Entering into the Serpent
        • 7. La conciencia de la mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness
    • Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952)
      • Claims
      • The Woman Who Was Left at the Altar
      • My Father in the Navy: A Childhood Memory
      • En Mis Ojos No Hay Días
      • Latin Women Pray
    • Tato Laviera (b. 1951)
      • frío
      • AmeRícan
      • Latero Story
    • Helena María Viramontes (b. 1954)
      • The Cariboo Cafe
    • Bharati Mukherjee (b. 1940)
      • A Wife's Story
    • Gary Soto (b. 1952)
      • Braly Street
      • The Cellar
      • Mexicans Begin Jogging
      • Black Hair
      • Kearney Park
    • Joy Harjo (Creek) (b. 1951)
      • The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window
      • New Orleans
      • Remember
      • Vision
      • Anchorage
      • Deer Dancer
      • We Must Call a Meeting
    • Louise Erdrich (Chippewa) (b. 1954)
      • Love Medicine
        • Saint Marie (1934)
    • Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
      • Cathedral
        • A Small, Good Thing
    • Wendy Rose (Hopi) (b. 1948)
      • Throat Song: The Rotating Earth
      • Loo-wit
      • To the Hopi in Richmond (Santa Fe Indian Village)
      • If I Am Too Brown or Too White for You
      • Story Keeper
      • Julia
    • Rita Dove (b. 1952)
      • Kentucky, 1833
      • Ö
      • Daystar
      • The Oriental Ballerina
    • Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)
      • I Ask My Mother to Sing
      • My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud
      • With Ruins
      • This Room and Everything in It
    • Lorna Dee Cervantes (b. 1954)
      • Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway
      • Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person Could Believe in the War Between Races
      • Macho
      • Bananas
    • Aurora Levins Morales (b. 1954)
      • Child of the Americas
      • Puertoricanness
      • Heart of My Heart, Bone of My Bone
    • Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954)
      • Eleven
    • Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna) (b. 1948)
      • Lullaby
    • Simon Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo) (b. 1941)
      • from Sand Creek

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