Earlier Generations: Cold War Culture and Its DiscontentsAnn Petry (1908-1997)
The Witness
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze
Root Cellar
Big Wind
from The Lost Son
----------- 1. The Flight
----------- 4. The Return
----------- 5. It was beginning winter
from Meditations of an Old Woman
----------- First Meditation
----------- from Fourth Meditation
Elegy
My Papa's Waltz
Eudora Welty (1909-2002)
The Wide Net
Charles Olson (1910-1970)
The Kingfishers
For Sappho, Back
I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
Maximus, to himself
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
The Fish
The Man-Moth
At the Fishhouses
Filling Station
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
Portrait of a Madonna
Tillie Lerner Olsen (b. 1913)
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
Carlos Bulosan (1913-1956)
from America Is in the Heart
----------- from Chapter XIII
----------- from Chapter XIV
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
Tour 5
Those Winter Sundays
Summertime and the Living . . .
Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday
Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)
The Magic Barrel
Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-1994)
A Party Down at the Square
Flying Home
Brave Words for a Startling Occasion
Arthur Miller (b. 1915)
The Crucible
Saul Bellow (b. 1915)
Looking for Mr. Green
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 Emmett Till
Ulysses
Robert Lowell, Jr. (1917-1977)
Memories of West Street and Lepke
Skunk Hour
For Theodore Roethke
For the Union Dead
Near the Ocean
Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921)
Seventeen Syllables
Grace Paley (b. 1922)
The Expensive Moment
John Okada (1923-1971)
from No-No Boy
----------- Chapter 6
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
Sonny's Blues
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
A Sheaf of Poetry and Prose from 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
Brenda (Bonnie) Frazer (b. 1939)
from Troia: Mexican Memoirs
Joyce Johnson (b. 1934)
from Door Wide Open
from Minor Characters
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
Riprap
Vapor Trails
Wave
It Was When
Malcolm X (1925-1965)
from The Autobiography of Malcolm X
----------- from Chapter 19, 1965
Robert Creeley (b. 1926)
Hart Crane
I Know a Man
For Love
Words
America
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)
My Heart
The Day Lady Died
Why I Am Not a Painter
Poem
John Ashbery (b. 1927)
The Instruction Manual
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape
As You Came from the Holy Land
Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928)
The Shawl
Edward Albee (b. 1928)
The Sand Box
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
Her Kind
Housewife
Young
Somewhere in Africa
Paule Marshall (b. 1929)
To Da-Duh, in Memoriam
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
Diving into the Wreck
From a Survivor
Power
Not Somewhere Else, but Here
Coast to Coast
Frame
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
For a Fatherless Son
Daddy
Lady Lazarus
Stings
Fever 103º;
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
I Have a Dream
New Generations: Postmodernity and DifferenceRolando Hinojosa-Smith (b. 1929)
Sometimes It Just Happens That Way; That's All
John Barth (b. 1930)
Lost in the Funhouse
A Sheaf of Vietnam Conflict Poetry and ProseMichael 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
Denise Levertov (1923-1997)
Illustrious Ancestors
A Solitude
Making Peace
A Woman Alone
The May Mornings
Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)
At the End of the Mechanical Age
Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
Recitatif
John Updike (b. 1932)
Trust Me
Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933)
The Sky Is Gray
N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) (b. 1934)
from The Way To Rainy Mountain
----------- Headwaters
----------- Prologue
----------- From the Introduction
----------- IV
----------- XVI
----------- XVII
----------- XXIV
----------- Epilogue
----------- Rainy Mountain Cemetery
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
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
Tomas Rivera (1935-1984)
----------- from . . . y no se lo tragó la tierra/And the Earth Did Not Devour Him
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
June Jordan (b. 1936)
Poem About My Rights
To Free Nelson Mandela
Moving Towards Home
Rudolfo A. Anaya (b. 1937)
from Bless Me, Ultima
----------- Dieciocho
Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937)
Entropy
Nicholasa Mohr (b. 1938)
from Rituals of Survival
Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
from Cathedral
----------- A Small Good Thing
Lawson Fusao Inada (b. 1938)
Instructions to All Persons
Two Variations on a Theme by Thelonius Monk as Inspired by Mal Waldron
----------- Introduction: Monk's Prosody
----------- I. Blue Monk (linear)
----------- II. Blue Monk (percussive)
Kicking the Habit
On Being Asian American
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
Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra
Flight to Canada
Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)
The Lesson
Frank Chin (b. 1940)
Railroad Standard Time
Cluster: Prison LiteratureEtheridge 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)
Jimmy Santiago Baca (b. 1952)
I've Taken Risks
I Put on My Jacket
Commitment
Ghost Reading in Sacramento
Kathy Boudin (b. 1943)
The Call
Our Skirt
A Trilogy of Journeys
Leonard Peltier (b. 1944)
from Prison Writings
Judee Norton (b. 1949)
Norton #59900
James Welch (Blackfeet-Gros Ventre) (b. 1940)
from Winter in the Blood
Bharati Mukherjee (b. 1940)
A Wife's Story
Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)
No Name Woman
Bobbie Ann Mason (b. 1940)
Airwaves
Simon Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo) (b. 1941)
from Sand Creek
John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941)
Valaida
Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004)
from Borderlands / La Frontera
----------- 3. Entering into the Serpent
----------- 7. La conciencia de la mestiza/Toward a New Consciousness
Janice Mirikitani (b. 1942)
For My Father
Desert Flowers
Breaking Tradition
Recipe
Pat Mora (b. 1942)
Border Town: 1938
Unnatural Speech
University Avenue
James Alan McPherson (b. 1943)
A Solo Song: For Doc
Lee Smith (b. 1944)
The Bubba Stories
Pedro Pietri (1944-2004)
Puerto Rican Obituary
Traffic Violations
Richard Rodriguez (b. 1944)
from The Hunger of Memory
Alice Walker (b. 1944)
Laurel
Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna) (b. 1948)
Lullaby
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
Sandra Maria Esteves (b. 1948) and Luz María Umpierre (b. 1947): A Poetry Exchange
A la Mujer Borrinqueña (Esteves)
In Response (Umpierre)
So Your Name Isn't María Cristina (Esteves)
Music d'Orsay (Umpierre)
Jessica Hagedorn (b. 1949)
The Blossoming of BongBong
The Death of Anna May Wong
Filipino Boogie
Homesick
Vulva Operetta
Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
Don't Tell Me You Don't Know
Victor Hernandez Cruz (b. 1949)
urban dream
Mountain Building
Table of Contents
Carolyn Forché (b. 1950)
from The Country Between Us
----------- The Colonel
Because One Is Always Forgotten
As Children Together
from The Recording Angel
Elegy
Paula Vogel (b. 1951)
How I Learned to Drive
Karen Tei Yamashita (b. 1951)
from Tropic of Orange
----------- 2. Benefits - Koreatown
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
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
Tato Laveria (b. 1951)
frío
AmeRícan
Latero Story
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
Rita Dove (b. 1952)
Kentucky, 1833
Ö
Daystar
The Oriental Ballerina
Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952)
Ducks
Different Ways to Pray
My Father and the Figtree
Blood
Where the Soft Air Lives
Gary Soto (b. 1952)
Braly Street
The Cellar
Mexicans Begin Jogging
Black Hair
Kearney Park
Rane Arroyo (b. 1953)
My Transvestite Uncle Is Missing
Caribbean Braille
Write What You Know
That Flag
Louise Erdrich (b. 1954)
from Love Medicine
----------- Saint Marie (1934)
Lorna Dee Cervantes (b. 1954)
Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway
Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Read Person Could Believe in the War Between Races
Macho
Bananas
Helena María Viramontes (b. 1954)
The Cariboo Café
Aurora Levins Morales (b. 1954)
Child of the Americas
Puertoricanness
Heart of My Heart, Bone of My Bone
Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954)
Eleven
Gish Jen (b. 1955)
In the American Society
Kimiko Hahn (b. 1955)
Strands
Resistance: A Poem on Ikat Cloth
Cuttings
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
David Foster Wallace (b. 1962)
The Devil Is a Busy Man
Chang-Rae Lee (b.1965)
Coming Home Again
Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)
Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi
----------- Hendrix Play "The Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock
Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969)
New York Day Women
Minh Duc Nguyen
Tale of Apricot