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American Literature, Fifth Edition
Paul Lauter, General Editor
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Period Index:
Volume 1 Colonial Period to 1700
Native American Oral Narrative
Talk Concerning the First Beginning (Zuni)
The Origin of Stories (Seneca)
Iroquois or Confederacy of the Five Nations (Iroquois)
Raven Makes a Girl Sick and Then Cures Her (Tsimshian)
The Bungling Host (Hitchiti)
Creation of the Whites (Yuchi)
Native American Oral Poetry
Love Song (Aleut)
Woman's Divorce Dance Song
(Jane Green)
Formula to Secure Love (Cherokee)
War Song (Crow)
War Song (Young Doctor, Makah)
New Spain
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) from Journal of the First Voyage to America, 1492-1493
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (1490?-1556?)
Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca from Chapter VII: The Character of the Country from Chapter VIII: We Go from Aute from Chapter X: The Assault from the Indians from Chapter XI: Of What Befel Lope de Oviedo with the Indians from Chapter XXI: Our Cure of Some of the Afflicted from Chapter XXIV: Customs of the Indians of That Country from Chapter XXVII: We Moved Away and Were Well Received from Chapter XXXII: The Indians Give Us the Hearts of Deer from Chapter XXXIII: We See Traces of Christians from Chapter XXXIV: Of Sending for the Christians
Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá (1555-1620)
The History of New Mexico from Canto I: Which sets forth the outline of the history . . .
History of the Miraculous Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695)
48 In Reply to a Gentleman from Peru, Who Sent Her Clay Vessels While Suggesting
She Would Better Be a Man
Don Antonio de Otermín (fl. 1680)
Letter on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680
The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt (Hopi)
New France
Samuel de Champlain (1570?-1635)
The Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1618 from The Voyages to the Great River St. Lawrence, 1608-1612
The Jesuit Relations
How Father Jogues was Taken by the Iroquois, and What He Suffered On his First
Entrance into their Country
Chesapeake Thomas Harriot (1560-1621)
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
John Smith (1580-1631)
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles
Book III from Chapter 2 [Smith as captive at the court of Powhatan in 1608] from Chapter 8 [Smith's Journey to Pamaunkee] from A Description of New England
New England
Thomas Morton (1579?-1647?)
New English Canaan
Book I: Containing the originall of the Natives, their manners & Customes,
with their tractable nature and love towards the English
from Chapter IV: Of their Houses and Habitations
from Chapter VI: Of the Indians
apparrell
Chapter VIII: Of their Reverence, and respect to age
Chapter XVI: Of their acknowledg-ment of the Creation, and
immortality of the Soule
from Chapter XX: That the Salvages live a contended life
Book III: Containing a description of the People that are planted there, what
remarkable Accidents have happened there . . . , what Tenents they hould, together
with the
practise of their Church.
from Chapter I: Of a great League made with the Plimmouth Planters after their
arrivall, by the Sachem of those Territories
from Chapter V: Of a Massacre made upon the Salvages at Wessaguscus
from Chapter VII: Of Thomas Mortons entertainement at Plimmouth, and castinge
away upon an Island.
Chapter XVI: How the 9 worthies put mine Host of Ma-re-Mount into the inchaunted
Castle at Plimmouth, and terrified him with the Monster Briareus
John Winthrop (1588-1649)
from A Modell of Christian Charity
from The Journal of John Winthrop
William Bradford (1590-1657)
Of Plymouth Plantation
Book I
from Chapter I: The Separatist Interpretation of the Reformation in England
1550-1607
from Chapter IX: Of their Voyage, and how they Passed the Sea; and of their
Safe Arrival at Cape Cod
Book II
from Chapter XI: The Remainder of Anno 1620 [The Mayflower Compact, The Starving
Time,
Indian Relations]
from Chapter XIV: Anno Domini 1623 [End of the Common Course and Condition]
from Chapter XIX: Anno Domini 1628 [Thomas Morton of Merrymount]
from Chapter XXIII: Anno Domini 1632 [Prosperity Brings Dispersal of Population]
from Chapter XXVIII: Anno Domini 1637 [The Pequot War]
Roger Williams (1603?-1683)
A Key into the Language of America
[Preface]: To my Deare and Welbeloved Friends and Countreymen, in old and new
England
Chapter XXII: Of their Government and Justice
Testimony of Roger Williams relative to his first coming into the Narragansett
country
Anne Bradstreet (1612?-1672)
The Prologue [To Her Book]
The Author to Her Book
The Flesh and the Spirit
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
To My Dear and Loving Husband
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665,
Being a Year and Half Old
On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet, Who Died on 16 November, 1669, being
but a Month, and One Day Old
Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666
The Bay Psalm Book (1640), The New England Primer (1683?)
The Bay Psalm Book
from The Preface by John Cotton Psalms 19, 23, 137
The New England Primer
Alphabet
Mary White Rowlandson (1637?-1711)
from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Edward Taylor (1642?-1729)
God's Determinations
The Preface
Occasional Poems
4. Huswifery
6. Upon Wedlock, & Death of Children
Preparatory Meditations, First Series
Prologue
8. Meditation Joh. 6.51. I am the Living Bread.
Preparatory Meditations, Second Series
Meditation 26. Heb. 9.13.14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, etc.
Samuel Sewall (1652-1730)
from The Diary of Samuel Sewall
The Selling of Joseph, A Memorial
Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
The Wonders of the Invisible World
V. The Trial of Martha Carrier at The Court of Oyer and Terminer,
Held by Adjournment at Salem,
August 2, 1692
Eighteenth Century
Settlement and Religion
Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727)
The Journal of Madam Knight
William Byrd II (1674-1744) from The History of the Dividing Line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina
and The Secret History of the Line
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
Personal Narrative
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755) from Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge,
. . . Written by her own Hand many years ago
John Woolman (1720-1772) from Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes
Francisco Palou (1723-1789)
Life of Junípero Serra from Chapter XXII: The Expeditions Arrive at the Port of MontereyThe
Mission and Presidio of San Carlos Are Founded
Voices of Revolution and Nationalism
Handsome Lake (Seneca)
How America Was Discovered
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
The Way to Wealth
A Witch Trial at Mount Holly
Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America
On the Slave-Trade from The Autobiography
Part One [Twyford, at the Bishop of St. Asaph's, 1771]
Part Two [Continuation of the Account of My Life Begun at Passy, 1784]
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813)
from Letters from an American Farmer
from Letter I: Introduction
from Letter II: On the Situation, Feelings, and Pleasures of an American Farmer
from Letter III: What Is an American?
from Letter IX: Description of Charles Town; Thoughts on Slavery; on Physical
Evil; A Melancholy Scene
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
Common Sense
Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs
The American Crisis
Number 1
The Age of Reason
Chapter I: The Author's Profession of Faith
John Adams (1735-1826) and Abigail Adams (1744-1818)
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31, 1776
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776 from Letters from John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 3, 1776
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, June 30, 1778 from Letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, November 15, 1813
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) from Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General
Congress Assembled
Notes on the State of Virginia from Query VI: Productions, Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal, Buffon and
the Theory of Degeneracy from Query XI: Aborigines, Original Condition and Origin from Query XVII: Religion from Query XVIII: Manners . . . Effect of Slavery
Letter to Benjamin Banneker, Aug. 30, 1791
Letter to Peter Carr [Young man's
education] from Letter to Benjamin Hawkins [Civilization of the Indians]
Letter to Nathaniel Burwell [A Young Woman's Education]
Federalist and Anti-Federalist Contentions
The Federalist No. 6 (Alexander Hamilton)
An Anti-Federalist Paper, To the Massachusetts Convention
Contested Visions, American Voices
Jupiter Hammon (1711-1806?)
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly
[sic], Ethiopian Poetess, in Boston, who came from Africa at eight years of
age, and soon became acquainted with the gospel of Jesus Christ
Samson Occom (Mohegan) (1723-1792)
A Short Narrative of My Life
Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797)
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa,
the African. Written by Himself from Chapter 1
Chapter 2 from Chapter 3 from Chapter 7 from Chapter 10
Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820)
On the Equality of the Sexes
Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
A Political Litany
To Sir Toby
The Wild Honey Suckle
The Indian Burying Ground
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
To Mæcenas
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for North-America, & c
On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield 1770
On Being Brought from Africa to America
To the University of Cambridge, in New England
To His Excellency General Washington
Letter to Samson Occom, Feb. 11, 1774
Hendrick Aupaumut (Mahican) (1757-1830) from A Short Narration of My Last Journey to the Western Country
Hannah Webster Foster (1758-1840)
The Coquette; or, the History of Eliza Wharton
Letter I: To Miss Lucy Freeman
Letter II: To the Same
Letter III: To the Same
Letter IV: To Mr. Selby
Letter V: To Miss Lucy Freeman
Letter VI: To the Same
Letter VIII: To Mr. Charles Deighton
Letter XI: To Mr. Charles Deighton
Letter XII: To Miss Lucy Freeman
Letter XIII: To Miss Eliza Wharton
Letter XVIII: To Mr. Charles Deighton
Letter LXV: To Mr. Charles Deighton
Letter LXVIII: To Mrs. M. Wharton
Letter LXXI: To Mrs. Lucy Sumner
Letter LXXII: To Mr. Charles Deighton
Letter LXXIII: To Miss Julia Granby
Letter LXXIV: To Mrs. M. Wharton
Early
Nineteenth Century: 1800-1865
Native America
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Ojibwa) (1800-1841)
Mishosha, or the Magician and His Daughters
William Apess (Pequot) (1798-?)
An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man
Elias Boudinot (Cherokee) (c. 1802-1839)
An Address to the Whites
Seattle (Duwamish) (1786-1866)
Speech of Chief Seattle
Tales and Narratives from Spanish America
Tales from the Hispanic Southwest
La comadre Sebastiana/Doña Sebastiana
Los tres hermanos/The Three Brothers
La Llorona, La Malinche, and Guadalupe
The Devil Woman
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1808-1890)
from Recuerdos históricos y personales tocante a la alta California
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) from A Journey Through Texas
San Antonio
The Missions
The Mexicans in Texas
Revisioning New England
Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)
Death of an Infant
Indian Names
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) from Nature
The American Scholar
Self-Reliance
Concord Hymn
The Rhodora
Brahma
Days
Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) from Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Resistance to Civil Government
Walden
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Higher Laws
Spring
Conclusion
Issues and Conflicts in Ante-Bellum America
David Walker (1785-1830)
from Appeal . . . to the Coloured Citizens of the World (third edition, 1829)
Sarah Moore Grimké (1792-1873)
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of women
Letter VIII, The Condition of Women in the United States
Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)
Letters from New York
#14: [Homelessness, 1842]
Angelina Grimké (1805-1879) from Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879)
Editorial from the first issue of
The Liberator
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery
Second Inaugural Address
Fanny Fern (Sara Willis Parton) (1811-1872)
Hints to Young Wives
Soliloquy of a Housemaid
Independence
Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Chapter I: Childhood
Chapter VI: The Jealous Mistress
Chapter X: A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life
Chapter XXI: The Loophole of Retreat
Chapter XLI: Free at Last
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) from Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences
Declaration of Sentiments
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
The Slave Mother
Free Labor
An Appeal to the American People
The Development of Narrative
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Rip Van Winkle
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Young Goodman Brown
The Birth-mark
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Ligeia
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Purloined Letter
SonnetTo Science
To Helen
The Raven
Annabel Lee
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
I: In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity
VII: The Mother's Struggle
XIII: The Quaker Settlement
XL: The Martyr
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Benito Cereno
Alice Cary (1820-1871)
Clovernook, Second Series
Uncle Christopher's
Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)
Life in the Iron-Mills
The Emergence of American Poetic Voices
Songs and Ballads
Songs of the Slaves
Lay Dis Body Down
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Had
Deep River
Roll, Jordan, Roll
Michael Row the Boat Ashore
Steal Away to Jesus
There's a Meeting Here To-Night
Many Thousand Go
Go Down, Moses
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
Songs of White Communities
John Brown's Body
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Pat Works on the Railway
Bury Me Not On the Lone Prairie
Shenandoah
Clementine
Life Is a Toil
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
Thanatopsis
To a Waterfowl
Abraham Lincoln
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
A Psalm of Life
The Warning
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Preface to Leaves of Grass
(1855 edition)
Song of Myself
One's-Self I Sing
To The Garden of the World
In Paths Untrodden
When I Heard at the Close of the Day
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
To a Locomotive in Winter
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
[I never lost as much but twice]
[Success is counted sweetest]
[Come slowlyEden!]
[Wild NightsWild Nights!]
[There's a certain Slant of light]
[I'm Nobody! Who are you?]
[The Soul selects her own Society]
[Some keep the Sabbath going to Church]
[After great pain, a formal feeling comes]
[God is a distantstately Lover]
[Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?]
[What SoftCherubic Creatures]
[Much Madness is divinest Sense]
[This is my letter to the World]
[This was a PoetIt is That]
[I heard a Fly buzzwhen I died]
[This World is not Conclusion]
[I started EarlyTook my Dog]
[I reckonwhen I count at all]
[They shut me up in Prose]
[The Brainis wider than the Sky]
[I cannot live with You]
[I dwell in Possibility]
[One need not be a Chamberto be Haunted]
[Publicationis the Auction]
[Because I could not stop for Death]
[She rose to His Requirementdropt]
[ It dropped so loin my Regard]
[My Life had stooda Loaded Gun]
[Presentimentis that long Shadowon the Lawn]
[A narrow Fellow in the Grass]
[Title divineis mine!]
[Tell all the Truth but tell it slant]
[He preached upon Breadth till it argued him narrow]
[What mystery pervades a well!]
[Heavenly Fathertake to thee]
[A Route of Evanescence]
[The Bible is an Antique Volume]
[To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee]
Letters
To Abiah Root
To T.W. Higginson
To T.W. Higginson
To T.W. Higginson
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
The Signifying Monkey
Memories of Slavery
The Flying Africans
Conjure Stories
Two Tales from Eatonville, Florida
John and Old Marster
Massa and the Bear
Baby in the Crib
John Steals a Pig and a Sheep
Talking Bones
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
(Mark Twain) (1835-1910)
Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog
A True Story
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
The War Prayer
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)
Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
II: The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932)
The Goophered Grapevine
Po' Sandy
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Lyrics of Lowly Life
An Ante-Bellum Sermon
We Wear the Mask
When Malindy Sings
Lyrics of the Hearthside
Sympathy
John Milton Oskison (1874-1947)
The Problem of Old Harjo
Corridos
Kiansis I/Kansas I
Gregorio Cortez
William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
Editha
Henry James (1843-1916)
Daisy Miller: A Study
The Jolly Corner
Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
Désirée's Baby
The Story of an Hour
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
Up the Coulé
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
The Open Boat
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
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
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Henry Adams (1838-1918)
The Education of Henry Adams
Chapter XXV: The Dynamo and the Virgin
Developments in Women's Writing
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
My Contraband
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
A White Heron
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)
The Revolt of Mother
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930)
A Dash for Liberty
Sarah M. B. Piatt (1836-1894)
The Palace-Burner
We Two
His Mother's Way
Sophie Jewett (1861-1909)
Armistice
I Speak Your Name
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 Making of Americans
Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far)
(1865-1914)
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
Mary Antin (1881-1949)
The Promised Land
from Chapter IX
José Martí (1853-1895)
Our America
Modern Period: 1910-1945
Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915)
Up from Slavery
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
Chapter I: Of Our Spiritual Strivings
Chapter III: Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
Lift Every Voice and Sing
The Creation
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Mr. Flood's Party
Eros Turannos
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
The Valley of Childish Things
Roman Fever
Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Wagner Matinee
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)
Trifles
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Mending Wall
The Road Not Taken
The Oven Bird
Out, Out
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Desert Places
Design
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
Hands
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
The Second Choice
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
Spring
The Spring and the Fall
[Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare]
[Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink]
The Return
Justice Denied in Massachusetts
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
In a Station of the Metro
L'art, 1910
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts)
E.P. Ode pour L'election de Son Sepulchre
The Cantos
XLV [With usura hath no man a house of good stone]
CXX [I have tried to write Paradise]
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
Patterns
Venus Transiens
The Sisters
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
from The Making of Americans
Susie Asado
from The Mother of Us All
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Danse Russe
The Young Housewife
Spring and All
To Elsie
The Red Wheelbarrow
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
The Hairy Ape
Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)
Smoke
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
[Buffalo Bill's]
[the Cambridge ladies who live in
furnished souls]
[i like my body when it is with your]
[my sweet old etcetera]
[i sing of Olaf glad and big]
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Waste Land
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Babylon Revisited
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Poetry
England
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Hills Like White Elephants
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
Sunday Morning
The Snow Man
Anecdote of the Jar
Of Modern Poetry
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Barn Burning
Hart Crane (1899-1932)
Chaplinesque
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
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
The Weary Blues
Johannesburg Mines
Harlem
I, Too
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
When the Negro Was in Vogue
Dream Variations
Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
Incident
Yet Do I Marvel
Heritage
Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song
Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989)
Ma Rainey
Slim in Hell
Remembering Nat Turner
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
Sweat
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
The Harlem Dancer
If We Must Die
The Lynching
America
Blues Lyrics
Issues and Visions in Modern America
Randolph Bourne (1886-1918)
Trans-National America
Anzia Yezierska (1881?-1970)
America and I
John Dos Passos (1896-1970)
U.S.A.
The Body of an American
The Bitter Drink
Meridel LeSueur (1900-1996)
Women on the Breadlines
Clifford Odets (1906-1963)
Waiting for Lefty
Thomas S. Whitecloud (Chippewa) (1914-1972)
Blue Winds Dancing
D'arcy McNickle (1904-1977)
Hard Riding
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
Infant Boy at Midcentury
Amazing Grace in the Back Country
Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)
Children
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
The Grapes of Wrath
Chapter One
Chapter Five
Richard Wright (1908-1960)
The Ethics of Living Jim
Margaret Walker (b. 1915)
For My People
Ballad of the Hoppy-Toad
Younghill Kang (1903-1972)
East Goes West
Part One, Book Three
Carved on the Walls: Poetry by Early Chinese Immigrants
from The Voyage
8 [Instead of remaining a citizen of China, I willingly became an ox]
from The Detainment
31 [There are tens of thousands of poems composed on these walls]
from 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]
from Deportees, Transients
69 [Detained in this wooden house for several tens of days]
Contemporary Period: 1945 to
the Present
Contemporary Period: The Earlier Generation
The Earlier Generation: Prose
Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
Why I Live at the P.O.
Tillie Lerner Olsen (b. 1912)
I Stand Here Ironing
Carlos Bulosan (1913-1956)
from America Is In the Heart
Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)
The Magic Barrel
Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-1994)
King of the Bingo Game
Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921)
Seventeen Syllables
Grace Paley (b. 1922)
A Conversation With My Father
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
Previous Condition
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Malcolm X (1925-1965)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Chapter 19: 1965
Mario Suarez (1925-1998)
El Hoyo
Senor Garza
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
I Have a Dream
Paule Marhsall (b. 1929)
To Da-duh: In Memoriam
The Earlier Generation: Drama
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
Portrait of a Madonna
Edward Albee (b. 1928)
The Sand Box
The Earlier Generation: Poetry
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
Root Cellar
My Papa's Waltz
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
The Fish
The Man-Moth
At the Fishhouses
Filling Station
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)
Absalom
The Minotaur
The Poem as Mask
Martin Luther King, Malcolm X
Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
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
Robert Lowell, Jr. (1917-1977)
Memories of West Street and Lepke
Skunk Hour
For Theodore Roethke
For the Union Dead
Near the Ocean
Robert Creeley (b. 1926)
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
John Ashbery (b. 1927)
The Instruction Manual
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape
As You Came from the Holy Land
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
Her Kind
Housewife
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
Diving into the Wreck
Power
Not Somewhere Else, But Here
The Beat Movement
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)
I Am Waiting
Dove Sta Amore . . .
The Old Italians Dying
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
The Vanishing American Hobo
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
Howl
America
Contemporary Period: New Generations
New Generations: Prose
John Barth (b. 1930)
Night-Sea Journey
Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
Recitatif
John Updike (b. 1932)
Trust Me
Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933)
The Sky Is Gray
N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934)
from The Way to Rainy Mountain
Headwaters
Prologue
from The Introduction
IV
XVI
XVII
XXIV
Epilogue
Rainy Mountain Cemetery
Rudolfo A. Anaya (b. 1937)
from Bless Me, Ultima
Dieciocho
Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)
The Lesson
Frank Chin (b. 1940)
Railroad Standard Time
Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)
No Name Woman
Bharati Mukerjee (b. 1940)
Happiness
Gloria Anzaldua (b. 1942)
from Borderlands/ La Frontera
Chapter 3: Entering the Serpent
Alice Walker (b. 1944)
Laurel
Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna) (b. 1948)
Lullaby
Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
Don't Tell Me You Don't Know
Louise Erdrich (Chippewa) (b. 1954)
Saint Marie
Helena Maria Viramontes (b. 1954)
The Cariboo Cafe
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
Vietnam Conflict
Denise Levertov (1923-1997)
Life at War
What Were They Like?
A Woman Alone
Robert Bly (b. 1926)
Counting Small-Boned Bodies
The Teeth Mother Naked at Last
Tim O'Brien (b. 1946)
In the Field
Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)
Tu Do Street
Prisoners
Thanks
Facing It
New Generations: Poetry
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
Riprap
Vapor Trails
Wave
It Was When
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)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Daddy
Lady Lazarus
Fever 103
Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
Power
Walking Our Boundaries
Never Take Fire From a Woman
Stations
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
Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934)
to blk/record/buyers
Masks
A Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King
June Jordan (b. 1936)
Poem About My Rights
To Free Nelson Mandela
Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra
Flight to Canada
Simon Oretiz (Acoma Pueblo) (b. 1941)
from Sand Creek
Pedro Pietri (b. 1944)
Puerto Rican Obituary
Traffic Violations
Jessica Hagedorn (b. 1949)
The Death of Anna May Wong
Filipino Boogie
Victor Hernandez Cruz (b. 1949)
urban dream
Mountain Building
Table of Contents
Joy Harjo (Creek) (b. 1951)
The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window
Gary Soto (b. 1952)
Braly Street
Mexicans Begin Jogging
Black Hair
Rita Dove (b. 1952)
Kentucky, 1833
O
Daystar
Lorna Dee Cervantes (b. 1954)
Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway
Poem for the Young White Man . . . .
Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)
I Ask My Mother To Sing
My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud
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