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American Literature at the End of the Nineteenth Century | |
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To the Reader | |
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Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910) | |
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Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | |
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Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses | |
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Context and Response: Artemus Ward, from Artemus Ward (His Travels) Among the Mormons | |
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Bret Harte (1836-1902) | |
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat | |
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W. D. Howells (1837-1920) | |
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Editha | |
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Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) | |
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Chickamauga | |
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The Devil's Dictionary: selections | |
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Context and Response: The poetry of Dorothy Parker | |
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William James (1842-1910) | |
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Pragmatism | |
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Henry James (1843-1916) | |
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The Pupil | |
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Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) | |
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The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story | |
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Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) | |
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The New Colossus | |
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Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) | |
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A White Heron | |
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Kate Chopin (1850-1904) | |
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Dsire's Baby | |
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The Storm | |
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Mary E Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) | |
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The Revolt of "Mother" | |
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Booker T. Washington (1856?-1915) | |
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Up From Slavery: Chapter XIV. The Atlanta Exposition Address | |
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Context and Response: Olaudah Equiano, Excerpt from Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah | |
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Equiano; or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself | |
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Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) | |
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The Sheriff's Children | |
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Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) | |
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Under the Lion's Paw | |
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) | |
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The Yellow Wall-paper | |
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Edith Wharton (1862-1937) | |
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The Other Two | |
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Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton) (1865-1914) | |
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Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian | |
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W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) | |
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The Souls of Black Folk: Chapter III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others | |
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Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) | |
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Old Rogaum and His Theresa | |
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Stephen Crane (1871-1900) | |
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An Experiment in Misery | |
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An Episode of War | |
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War Is Kind | |
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Jack London (1876-1916) | |
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To Build a Fire | |
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The South Since Reconstruction | |
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Frederick Douglass: The Future of the Negro | |
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George Washington Cable: The Freedman's Case in Equity (excerpt) | |
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Henry W. Grady: The New South (excerpt) | |
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U.S. Supreme Court: Plessy v. Ferguson (excerpt) | |
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Pauli Murray: Proud Shoes (excerpt) | |
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Marion Post Wolcott, Entrance to a Movie House, Mississippi Delta | |
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H. L. Mencken: The Sahara of the Bozart (excerpt) | |
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Lizzie Woodworth Reese: A War Memory (1865) | |
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Donald Davidson: A Mirror for Artists (excerpt) | |
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Arthur Rothstein, Southern Movie Theater | |
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Modern American Literature | |
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To the Reader | |
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Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) | |
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Lucinda Matlock | |
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Davis Matlock | |
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Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) | |
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Richard Cory | |
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Miniver Cheevy | |
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Eros Turannos | |
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James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) | |
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Lift Every Voice and Sing | |
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O Black and Unknown Bards | |
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Image: James Weldon Johnson | |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) | |
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Sympathy | |
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We Wear the Mask | |
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Willa Cather (1873-1947) | |
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Paul's Case | |
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Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) | |
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The Gentle Lena | |
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Amy Lowell (1874-1925) | |
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The Captured Goddess | |
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Venus Transiens | |
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Madonna of the Evening Flowers | |
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September, 1918 | |
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New Heavens for Old | |
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The Taxi | |
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Robert Frost (1874-1963) | |
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The Pasture | |
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Mending Wall | |
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Home Burial | |
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After Apple-Picking | |
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The Wood-Pile | |
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The Road Not Taken | |
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Birches | |
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"Out, Out-" | |
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Fire and Ice | |
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Nothing Gold Can Stay | |
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | |
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Desert Places | |
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Design | |
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Neither out Far nor in Deep | |
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Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) | |
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Winesburg, Ohio: Hands | |
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Image: Sherwood Anderson | |
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Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) | |
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Trifles | |
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Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) | |
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Chicago | |
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Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) | |
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The Snow Man | |
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Sunday Morning | |
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Anecdote of the Jar | |
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird | |
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The Death of a Soldier | |
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The Idea of Order at Key West | |
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Of Modern Poetry | |
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The Plain Sense of Things | |
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William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) | |
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The Young Housewife | |
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Portrait of a Lady | |
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Spring and All | |
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To Elsie | |
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The Red Wheelbarrow | |
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Death | |
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This Is Just to Say | |
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The Dance ("In Brueghel's great picture, The Kermess") | |
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus | |
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972) | |
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Portrait d'une Femme | |
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A Pact | |
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In a Station of the Metro | |
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The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter | |
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The Cantos: I ("And then went down to the ship") | |
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H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961) | |
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Oread | |
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Leda | |
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Helen | |
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Marianne Moore (1887-1972) | |
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Poetry | |
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A Grave | |
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To a Snail | |
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John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) | |
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Piazza Piece | |
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T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) | |
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | |
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The Waste Land | |
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Gerontion | |
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The Hollow Men | |
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Four Quartets: Burnt Norton | |
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Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) | |
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The Emperor Jones | |
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Claude McKay (1889-1948) | |
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If We Must Die | |
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America | |
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Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) | |
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Flowering Judas | |
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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) | |
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The Gilded Six-Bits | |
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) | |
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Recuerdo | |
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I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently | |
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[I, being born a woman] | |
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Apostrophe to Man | |
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I Too beneath Your Moon, Almighty Sex | |
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Spring | |
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I Forgot for a Moment | |
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Context and Response: The poetry of Lisel Mueller | |
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Archibald Macleish (1892-1982) | |
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Ars Poetica | |
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) | |
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General Review of the Sex Situation | |
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e.e. cummings (1894-1962) | |
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in Just-- | |
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Buffalo Bill's | |
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the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls | |
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"next to of course god america I" | |
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if there are any heavens my mother will (all by herself) have | |
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somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond | |
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anyone lived in a pretty how town | |
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Jean Toomer (1894-1967) | |
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Georgia Dusk | |
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Fern | |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) | |
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Babylon Revisited | |
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Louise Bogan (1897-1970) | |
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Medusa | |
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William Faulkner (1897-1962) | |
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That Evening Sun | |
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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) | |
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The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber | |
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Context and Response: Po Baroja, excerpt from The Chasm | |
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Hart Crane (1899-1932) | |
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At Melville's Tomb | |
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Voyages: I ("Above the fresh ruffles of the surf") | |
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III ("Infinite consanguinity it bears-") | |
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V ("Meticulous, past midnight in clear rime") | |
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The Bridge: Poem: To Brooklyn Bridge | |
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Allen Tate (1899-1979) | |
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Ode to the Confederate Dead | |
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Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) | |
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He Was a Man | |
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Break of Day | |
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Bitter Fruit of the Tree | |
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Langston Hughes (1902-1967) | |
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers | |
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Mother to Son | |
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The Weary Blues | |
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The South | |
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Ruby Brown | |
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Let America Be America Again | |
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Poet to Patron | |
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Ballad of the Landlord | |
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Too Blue | |
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Theme for English B | |
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Poet to Bigot | |
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I, Too | |
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Countee Cullen (1903-1946) | |
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Yet Do I Marvel | |
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Incident | |
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Richard Wright (1908-1960) | |
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Long Black Song | |
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Image: Negro Tenant Farmer | |
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Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) | |
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Effort at Speech Between Two People | |
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Poem | |
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American Writers and the Great Depression | |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (excerpt) | |
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Mary Heaton Vorse, School for Bums (excerpt) | |
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Anonymous, Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt | |
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Robert Johnson, Cross Road Blues | |
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Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again (excerpt) | |
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Alfred Kazin, Starting Out in the Thirties (excerpt) | |
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Agnes Smedley, China Fights Back (excerpt) | |
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Kenneth Fearing, Devil's Dream | |
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John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (excerpt) | |
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Dorothea Lange, Mexican Field Worker's Home, California | |
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Woody Guthrie, This Land Is Your Land | |
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Dorothea Lange, The Mochida Family | |
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American Prose Since 1945 | |
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To the Reader | |
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Eudora Welty (1909-2001) | |
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A Worn Path | |
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Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) | |
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | |
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Context and Response: Carson McCullers, from The Member of the Wedding | |
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John Cheever (1912-1982) | |
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The Sorrows of Gin | |
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Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) | |
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Battle Royal | |
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Grace Paley (1922-2007) | |
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The Loudest Voice | |
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James Baldwin (1924-1987) | |
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Notes of a Native Son | |
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Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) | |
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Revelation | |
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Toni Morrison (b. 1931) | |
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Recitatif | |
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John Updike (1932-2009) | |
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Separating | |
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Philip Roth (b. 1933) | |
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Defender of the Faith | |
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Context and Response: Saul Bellow, excerpt from Herzog | |
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Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) | |
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Dutchman | |
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Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) | |
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Where are you going, where have you been? | |
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Raymond Carver (1938-1988) | |
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Cathedral | |
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Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995) | |
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The Lesson | |
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Terrance McNally (b. 1939) | |
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Andre's Mother | |
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Alice Walker (b. 1944) | |
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Everyday Use | |
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Tim O'Brien (b. 1946) | |
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The Things They Carried | |
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Mark Helprin (b. 1947) | |
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White Gardens | |
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Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948) | |
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Lullaby | |
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Edward P. Jones (b. 1951) | |
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Blindsided | |
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Amy Tan (b. 1952) | |
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Two Kinds | |
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Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) | |
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The Red Convertible | |
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David Henry Hwang (b. 1957) | |
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The Sound of a Voice | |
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Jhumpa Lahiri (b. 1967) | |
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Hell-Heaven | |
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Post-Modernism | |
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Carl Andre, Equivalent VII; Frank Gehry, Walt Disney Concert Hall; Michael Heizer, Levitated Mass | |
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Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism and the Consumer Society (excerpt) | |
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Sherrie Levine, After Walker Evans: 4; Batman and the Joker; Madonna at Super Bowl XLVI | |
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Jonathan Franzen, On Rainer Maria Rilke | |
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Cindy Sherman, Untitled | |
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Diane Williams, Human Being | |
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Charles Bernstein, thinking i think i think | |
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Mitch Stevens, OMG! I just got born! | |
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Alan Kirby, The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond (excerpt) | |
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Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup Cans; Mark Tansey, The Innocent Eye | |
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Test; Jeff Koons, New Hoover Convertibles | |
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American Poetry Since World War II | |
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To the Reader | |
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Robert Penn Warren (1905--1989) | |
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Bearded Oaks | |
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Mortal Limit | |
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Theodore Roethke (1908--1963) | |
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Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze | |
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My Papa's Waltz | |
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The Waking | |
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Night Crow | |
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I Knew a Woman | |
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In a Dark Time | |
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Charles Olson (1910--1970) | |
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Maximus, to Himself | |
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Elizabeth Bishop (1911--1979) | |
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The Fish | |
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Sestina | |
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In the Waiting Room | |
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The Moose | |
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One Art | |
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Robert Hayden (1913--1980) | |
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Homage to the Empress of the Blues | |
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Those Winter Sundays | |
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Frederick Douglass | |
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William Stafford (1914-1993) | |
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Traveling Through the Dark | |
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Randall Jarrell (1914--1965) | |
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The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner | |
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The Woman at the Washington Zoo | |
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John Berryman (1914--1972) | |
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Dream Songs (excerpts) | |
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14 ("Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so") | |
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29 ("There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart") | |
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40 ("I'm scared a lonely. Never see my son") | |
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45 ("He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back") | |
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385 ("My daughter's heavier. Light leaves are flying") | |
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Robert Lowell (1917--1977) | |
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Mr. Edwards and the Spider | |
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Memories of West Street and Lepke | |
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Skunk Hour | |
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Night Sweat | |
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For the Union Dead | |
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Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) | |
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We Real Cool | |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919) | |
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Constantly Risking Absurdity | |
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Robert Duncan (1919--1988) | |
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Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow | |
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Interrupted Forms | |
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Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) | |
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Years-End | |
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Love Calls Us to the Things of This World | |
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James Dickey (1923-1997) | |
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Drowning with Others | |
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The Heaven of Animals | |
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Mitsuye Yamada (b. 1923) | |
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To the Lady | |
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Denise Levertov (1923-1997) | |
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In Mind | |
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September 1961 | |
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What Were They Like | |
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Zeroing In | |
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A. R. Ammons (1926-2001) | |
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Corsons Inlet | |
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James Merrill (1926--1995) | |
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The Broken Home | |
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Robert Creeley (1926-2005) | |
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For Love | |
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The Messengers | |
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Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) | |
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Howl | |
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Frank O'Hara (1926--1966) | |
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To The Harbormaster | |
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The Day Lady Died | |
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Galway Kinnell (b. 1927) | |
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The Porcupine | |
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John Ashbery (b. 1927) | |
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Illustration | |
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The Lament Upon the Waters | |
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W. S. Merwin (b. 1927) | |
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For the Anniversary of My Death | |
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For a Coming Extinction | |
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James Wright (1927--1980) | |
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Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio | |
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To the Evening Star: Central Minnesota | |
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A Blessing | |
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Philip Levine (b. 1928) | |
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Starlight | |
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Anne Sexton (1928--1974) | |
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The Truth the Dead Know | |
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Sylvia's Death | |
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Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) | |
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Storm Warnings | |
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Diving into the Wreck | |
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Gary Snyder (b. 1930) | |
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Riprap | |
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August on Sourdough, A Visit from Dick Brewer | |
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Ripples on the Surface | |
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Sylvia Plath (1932--1963) | |
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Morning Song | |
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Lady Lazarus | |
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Ariel | |
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Daddy | |
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Linda Pastan (b. 1932) | |
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Marks | |
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Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) | |
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A Poem for Black Hearts | |
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Mary Oliver (b. 1935) | |
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The Black Snake | |
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Hawk | |
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Marge Piercy (b. 1936) | |
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A Work of Artifice | |
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Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) | |
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In the inner city | |
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Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) | |
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Dear John, Dear Coltrane | |
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Martin's Blues | |
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"Bird Lives": Charles Parker in St. Louis | |
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Frank Bidart (b. 1939) | |
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Self-Portrait, 1969 | |
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Billy Collins (b. 1941) | |
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Sonnet | |
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The Names | |
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Gloria Anzaldua (1942-2004) | |
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To live in the Borderlands means you | |
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Joseph Bruchac III (b. 1942) | |
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Ellis Island | |
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Sharon Olds (b. 1942) | |
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Rites of Passage | |
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The Victims | |
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Dave Smith (b. 1942) | |
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Tide Pools | |
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Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943) | |
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Nikki-Rosa | |
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Louise Glck (b. 1943) | |
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The Drowned Children | |
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Gretel in Darkness | |
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Kay Ryan (b. 1945) | |
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A Certain Kind of Eden | |
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Home to Roost | |
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Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) | |
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Facing It | |
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C. D. Wright (b. 1949) | |
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Tours | |
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Personals | |
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Jorie Graham (b. 1950) | |
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Sea-Blue Aubade | |
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Joy Harjo (b. 1951) | |
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Call It Fear | |
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White Bear | |
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Eagle Poem | |
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Andrew Hudgins (b. 1951) | |
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Death and Doom | |
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Jimmy Santiago Baca (b. 1952) | |
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Cloudy Day | |
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Rita Dove (b. 1952) | |
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Daystar | |
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Adolescence-I | |
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Adolescence-II | |
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Straw Hat | |
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Missing | |
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Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952) | |
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My Father in the Navy | |
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Alberto Rios (b. 1952) | |
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Wet Camp | |
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Advice to a First Cousin | |
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Mark Doty (b. 1953) | |
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Golden Retrievals | |
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At the Gym | |
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Aurora Levins Morales (b. 1954) | |
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Child of the Americas | |
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Lorna Dee Cervantes (b. 1954) | |
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Refugee Ship | |
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Cathy Song (b. 1955) | |
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The White Porch | |
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Chinatown | |
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Heaven | |
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Li-Young Lee (b. 1957) | |
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The Gift | |
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Mnemonic | |
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This Room and Everything in It | |
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Martin Espada (b. 1957) | |
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Bully | |
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Sherman Alexie (b. 1966) | |
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On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City | |
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Americas Sings the Blues: A Collection of Songs | |
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Child with Tambourine Accompanying Guitarist, 1930s | |
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W. C. Handy: St. Louis Blues | |
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Bessie Smith: Thinking Blues | |
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Robert Johnson: Walkin' Blues | |
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W.H. Auden: Funeral Blues | |
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Johnny Cash: Folsom Prison Blues | |
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Folsom State Prison, cell door, 1960s | |
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Merle Haggard: Working Man Blues | |
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Linda Pastan: Mini Blues | |
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Allen Ginsberg: Father Death Blues | |
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Charles Wright: Laguna Blues | |
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Marilyn Chin: We Are Americans Now, We Live in the Tundra | |
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Sherman Alexie: Reservation Blues | |
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Indian photographing tourist photographing Indians, Crow Fair, Montana, 1991 | |
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Arrested Development: Tennessee | |
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Chronology | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |
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Map of the United States | |