Bedford Anthology of American Literature, Volume Two
Second EditionSusan Belasco; Linck Johnson
©2014Discover why American literature is relevant and still worth reading today. Bedford Anthology of American Literature, Volume Two teaches you to read, appreciate, and understand American literature. The accompanying illustrations also help you grasp the cultural, material, and social conditions in which literary works are produced.
Table of Contents
*indicates new selection or expansion of old selection **indicates entirely new author and new selection(s) AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1865–1914 INTRODUCTION The Aftermath of the Civil War Comparative Timeline Expansion, Industrialization, and the Emergence of Modern America Map: Immigrants to the United States, 1900
**Writers on Writers: Arthur Miller on Mark Twain Arthur Miller (1915-2005) from "Introduction," The Oxford Mark Twain **Bret Harte (1836-1902) The Luck of Roaring Camp
William Dean Howells (1837–1920) Editha
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?) Chickamauga
Henry James (1843–1916) The Real Thing *The Jolly Corner **Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) The Crowing of the Red Cock 1492 The New Colossus Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) A White Heron
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930) A New England Nun Kate Chopin (1850–1904) At the ’Cadian Ball The Storm: A Sequel to the ’Cadian Ball
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) The Yellow Wall-Paper
Abraham Cahan (1860–1951) A Ghetto Wedding
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) *The Quicksand
Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton) (1865–1914) *Its Wavering Image
Mary Austin (1868–1934) The Basket Maker
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) The House on the Hill Luke Havergal Zola Richard Cory Miniver Cheevy Eros Turannos The Mill Frank Norris (1870–1902) A Deal in Wheat Stephen Crane (1871–1900) The Open Boat
The Black Riders and Other Lines I [Black riders came from the sea.] III [In the desert] XIV [There was a crimson clash of war.] XIX [A god in wrath] XXIV [I saw a man pursuing the horizon] War Is Kind I [Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.] XXI [A man said to the universe;]
Uncollected Poems [A man adrift on a slim spar]
Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) Butcher Rogaum’s Door
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) An Ante-bellum Sermon We Wear the Mask Sympathy
Willa Cather (1873–1947) A Wagner Matinée
Jack London (1876–1916) The Law of Life WRITING "AMERICAN" LIVES
INTRODUCTION José Martí (1853–1895) Impressions of America, I and III
Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (1876–1938) The School Days of an Indian Girl
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) Up from Slavery Chapter 14: 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
Henry Adams (1838–1918) The Education of Henry Adams Preface Chapter XXV. The Dynamo and the Virgin
Mary Antin (1881–1949) The Promised Land
Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877–1966) The Heart of a Woman Black Woman Cosmopolite I Want to Die While You Love Me
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) Chicago A Fence Fog Prayers of Steel Cool Tombs Grass
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) *Peter Quince at the Clavier Sunday Morning Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird The Death of a Soldier Anecdote of the Jar The Snow Man *Tea at the Palaz of Hoon The Emperor of Ice-Cream The Idea of Order at Key West Of Modern Poetry Mina Loy (1882–1966) Love Songs
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) Tract The Young Housewife Danse Russe Portrait of a Lady Willow Poem Queen-Anne’s-Lace The Widow’s Lament in Springtime The Great Figure Spring and All To Elsie The Red Wheelbarrow This Is Just to Say These A Sort of a Song
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) Portrait d’une Femme A Virginal The Return A Pact The Rest In a Station of the Metro [First Version] In a Station of the Metro [Final Version]
Cathay The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance Lament of the Frontier Guard Taking Leave of a Friend
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961) Oread *The Pool Garden *Sea Rose *Eurydice Leda Helen
Marianne Moore (1887–1972) Poetry [First Version] Poetry [Final Version] *To Military Progress *To a Steamroller The Fish A Grave To a Snail *An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish"
**Writers on Writers: Elizabeth Bishop on Marianne Moore
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The Waste Land The Journey of the Magi Burnt Norton
Claude McKay (1889–1948) The Harlem Dancer If We Must Die The Lynching America Africa Outcast
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) First Fig Second Fig [Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.] [I, being born a woman and distressed] [Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!] Justice Denied in Massachusetts *I Forgot for a Moment
E. E. Cummings (1894–1962) [in Just-] [Buffalo Bill ’s] [the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls] ["next to of course god america i] [i sing of Olaf glad and big] [you shall above all things be glad and young.] [anyone lived in a pretty how town] [thank You God for most this amazing]
Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976) Testimony
Hart Crane (1899–1932) Voyages I–VI To Brooklyn Bridge The Broken Tower
Sterling A. Brown (1901–1989)
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) The Negro Speaks of Rivers *Negro *Danse Africaine Mother to Son Jazzonia I, Too The Weary Blues Cross Brass Spittoons Afro-American Fragment Christ in Alabama Dream Boogie Harlem
Countee Cullen (1903–1946) Yet Do I Marvel Heritage
Susan Glaspell (1876–1948) Trifles
Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953) The Emperor Jones AT HOME AND ABROAD: AMERICAN FICTION BETWEEN THE WARS INTRODUCTION AMERICAN CONTEXTS From The Great War to The Great Depression: American Writers and the Challenges of Modernity Introduction Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) from Apology for Crudity Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) from Composition as Explanation Donald Davidson (1893–1968) from A Mirror for Artists, in I’ll Take My Stand Michael Gold (1893–1967) from Proletarian Realism Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) from Characteristics of Negro Expression John Dos Passos (1896–1970) The Writer as Technician Richard Wright (1908–1960) from Blueprint for Negro Writing Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) Ada Miss Furr and Miss Skeene Picasso
Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) Winesburg, Ohio Hands Paper Pills *Adventure
Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) Flowering Judas
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) *Spunk
Nella Larsen (1891–1964) Sanctuary
María Cristina Mena (1893–1965) The Vine Leaf
Jean Toomer (1894–1967) Cane Portrait in Georgia Blood Burning Moon Seventh Street
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) The Ice Palace
John Dos Passos (1896–1970) 1919—Two Portraits Vag
William Faulkner (1897–1962) That Evening Sun Barn Burning
Richard Wright (1908–1960) Almos’ a Man
Eudora Welty (1909–2001) *Lily Daw and the Three Ladies
Carlos Bulosan (1911–1956)
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) My Papa’s Waltz Cuttings Cuttings (later) Root Cellar The Waking I Knew a Woman The Far Field
Robert Hayden (1913–1980) Middle Passage Tillie Olsen (1912?–2007) I Stand Here Ironing John Berryman (1914–1972) From The Dream Songs 1 [Huffy Henry hid the day,] 4 [Filling her compact & delicious body] 14 [Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.] 26 [The glories of the world struck me, made me aria, once.] 45 [He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back.] 384 [The marker slants, flowerless, day’s almost done,]
Ralph Ellison (1913–1994) The Invisible Man
Bernard Malamud (1914–1986) The First Seven Years
Saul Bellow (1915–2005) Looking for Mr. Green
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) Death of a Salesman
Robert Lowell (1917–1977) Memories of West Street and Lepke Skunk Hour For the Union Dead Waking Early Sunday Morning Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2) A Street in Bronzeville kitchenette building the mother a song in the front yard the preacher: ruminates behind the sermon The Bean Eaters We Real Cool Malcolm X
Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921) Seventeen Syllables
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) Howl
John Ashbery (b. 1927) The One Thing That Can Save America *And Ut Picture Poesis Is Her Name My Erotic Double
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929) Trying to Talk with a Man A Valediction Forbidding Mourning Diving into the Wreck Power
Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) The School Toni Morrison (b. 1931) Recitatif
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) Morning Song Blackberrying Mirror Daddy Lady Lazarus
John Updike (b. 1932) A & P
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934)
Don DeLillo (b. 1936) Videotape Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) American History Dear John, Dear Coltrane Martin’s Blues "Bird Lives": Charles Parker in St. Louis
Raymond Carver (1938–1988) Are These Actual Miles?
Gloria Anzaldúa (1942–2004) El sonavabitche
**August Wilson (1945-2005) The Janitor
Tim O’Brien (b. 1946) The Things They Carried **Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) The Dead at Quang Tri Tu Do Street Prisoners Facing It
Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948) Yellow Woman Joy Harjo (b. 1951) New Orleans Anchorage If You Look with the Mind of the Swirling Earth 0 The Land Is a Poem
Rita Dove (b. 1952) David Walker The House Slave Kentucky, 1833 Canary History
Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954) Mericans
Martín Espada (b. 1957) Bully Latin Night at the Pawnshop Federico’s Ghost Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
Sherman Alexie (b. 1966) What You Pawn I Will Redeem
**Junot Díaz (b. 1968) Invierno AMERICAN CONTEXTS "Inventing the Truth": The Contemporary Memoir Introduction N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934) from The Names: A Memoir Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940) from The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts David Mamet (b. 1947) The Rake: Scenes from My Childhood bell hooks (b. 1952) from Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood Gary Soto (b. 1952) Like Mexicans **Allison Bechdel (b. 1960) from Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Innovation, Technology, and the Literary Marketplace
REALISM, REGIONALISM, AND NATURALISM
INTRODUCTION AMERICAN CONTEXTS "The America of the Mind": Critics, Writers, and the Representation of Reality Introduction Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911) from A Plea for Culture Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) Recent American Novels Julian Hawthorne (1846–1934) from The American Element in Fiction Henry James (1843–1916) from The Art of Fiction Anonymous (A "Lady from Philadelphia") from The Coming American Novelist William Dean Howells (1837–1920) from Criticism and Fiction Hamlin Garland (1860–1940) from Literary Emancipation of the West Frank Norris (1870–1902) A Plea for Romantic Fiction Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) (1835–1910) Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It from Old Times on the Mississippi The Private History of a Campaign that Failed The War Prayer**Writers on Writers: Arthur Miller on Mark Twain Arthur Miller (1915-2005) from "Introduction," The Oxford Mark Twain **Bret Harte (1836-1902) The Luck of Roaring Camp
William Dean Howells (1837–1920) Editha
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?) Chickamauga
Henry James (1843–1916) The Real Thing *The Jolly Corner **Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) The Crowing of the Red Cock 1492 The New Colossus Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) A White Heron
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930) A New England Nun Kate Chopin (1850–1904) At the ’Cadian Ball The Storm: A Sequel to the ’Cadian Ball
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932)
*The Goophered Grapevine
The Passing of Grandison
Pauline E. Hopkins (1859–1930) "As the Lord Lives, He Is One of Our Mother’s Children"Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) The Yellow Wall-Paper
Abraham Cahan (1860–1951) A Ghetto Wedding
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) *The Quicksand
Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton) (1865–1914) *Its Wavering Image
Mary Austin (1868–1934) The Basket Maker
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) The House on the Hill Luke Havergal Zola Richard Cory Miniver Cheevy Eros Turannos The Mill Frank Norris (1870–1902) A Deal in Wheat Stephen Crane (1871–1900) The Open Boat
The Black Riders and Other Lines I [Black riders came from the sea.] III [In the desert] XIV [There was a crimson clash of war.] XIX [A god in wrath] XXIV [I saw a man pursuing the horizon] War Is Kind I [Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.] XXI [A man said to the universe;]
Uncollected Poems [A man adrift on a slim spar]
Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) Butcher Rogaum’s Door
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) An Ante-bellum Sermon We Wear the Mask Sympathy
Willa Cather (1873–1947) A Wagner Matinée
Jack London (1876–1916) The Law of Life WRITING "AMERICAN" LIVES
INTRODUCTION José Martí (1853–1895) Impressions of America, I and III
Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (1876–1938) The School Days of an Indian Girl
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) Up from Slavery Chapter 14: 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
Henry Adams (1838–1918) The Education of Henry Adams Preface Chapter XXV. The Dynamo and the Virgin
Mary Antin (1881–1949) The Promised Land
from Chapter 9: The Promised Land
AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1914–1945
INTRODUCTION Art and Society in the Era of the Great War Comparative Timeline American Culture in the 1920s Map: The Great Migration, 1914–1930 From the Great Depression to World War II MODERNISMS IN AMERICAN POETRY INTRODUCTION AMERICAN CONTEXTS "MAKE IT NEW": THEORIES OF MODERN POETRY Introduction Harriet Monroe (1860–1936) The Motive of the Magazine Ezra Pound (1885–1972) from A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste Amy Lowell (1874–1925) The New Manner in Modern Poetry T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) from Tradition and the Individual Talent James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) from The Preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry Mina Loy (1882–1966) from Modern Poetry Langston Hughes (1902–1967) The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain Hart Crane (1899–1932) from Modern Poetry Robert Frost (1874–1963) The Figure a Poem Makes William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) Introduction to The Wedge James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) The Creation Amy Lowell (1874–1925) The Taxi Aubade Venus Transiens Madonna of the Evening Flowers A Decade *A Lover *The Pond *Opal *September, 1918 Robert Frost (1874–1963) Mending Wall Home Burial After Apple-Picking *The Wood Pile-Pile The Road Not Taken Birches "Out, Out —" The Oven Bird" Fire and Ice Design Nothing Gold Can Stay Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening *Acquainted with the Night Desert Places The Gift OutrightGeorgia Douglas Johnson (1877–1966) The Heart of a Woman Black Woman Cosmopolite I Want to Die While You Love Me
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) Chicago A Fence Fog Prayers of Steel Cool Tombs Grass
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) *Peter Quince at the Clavier Sunday Morning Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird The Death of a Soldier Anecdote of the Jar The Snow Man *Tea at the Palaz of Hoon The Emperor of Ice-Cream The Idea of Order at Key West Of Modern Poetry Mina Loy (1882–1966) Love Songs
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) Tract The Young Housewife Danse Russe Portrait of a Lady Willow Poem Queen-Anne’s-Lace The Widow’s Lament in Springtime The Great Figure Spring and All To Elsie The Red Wheelbarrow This Is Just to Say These A Sort of a Song
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) Portrait d’une Femme A Virginal The Return A Pact The Rest In a Station of the Metro [First Version] In a Station of the Metro [Final Version]
Cathay The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance Lament of the Frontier Guard Taking Leave of a Friend
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961) Oread *The Pool Garden *Sea Rose *Eurydice Leda Helen
Marianne Moore (1887–1972) Poetry [First Version] Poetry [Final Version] *To Military Progress *To a Steamroller The Fish A Grave To a Snail *An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish"
**Writers on Writers: Elizabeth Bishop on Marianne Moore
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
"Miss Moore and Edgar Allan Poe"
Jun Fujita (1888–1963)
Diminuendo Michigan Boulevard Chicago River My SisterT. S. Eliot (1888–1965) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The Waste Land The Journey of the Magi Burnt Norton
Claude McKay (1889–1948) The Harlem Dancer If We Must Die The Lynching America Africa Outcast
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) First Fig Second Fig [Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.] [I, being born a woman and distressed] [Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!] Justice Denied in Massachusetts *I Forgot for a Moment
E. E. Cummings (1894–1962) [in Just-] [Buffalo Bill ’s] [the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls] ["next to of course god america i] [i sing of Olaf glad and big] [you shall above all things be glad and young.] [anyone lived in a pretty how town] [thank You God for most this amazing]
Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976) Testimony
Hart Crane (1899–1932) Voyages I–VI To Brooklyn Bridge The Broken Tower
Sterling A. Brown (1901–1989)
*Southern Road
Strong Men
Tin Roof BluesLangston Hughes (1902–1967) The Negro Speaks of Rivers *Negro *Danse Africaine Mother to Son Jazzonia I, Too The Weary Blues Cross Brass Spittoons Afro-American Fragment Christ in Alabama Dream Boogie Harlem
Countee Cullen (1903–1946) Yet Do I Marvel Heritage
From the Dark Tower
THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN AMERICAN DRAMA
INTRODUCTIONSusan Glaspell (1876–1948) Trifles
Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953) The Emperor Jones AT HOME AND ABROAD: AMERICAN FICTION BETWEEN THE WARS INTRODUCTION AMERICAN CONTEXTS From The Great War to The Great Depression: American Writers and the Challenges of Modernity Introduction Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) from Apology for Crudity Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) from Composition as Explanation Donald Davidson (1893–1968) from A Mirror for Artists, in I’ll Take My Stand Michael Gold (1893–1967) from Proletarian Realism Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) from Characteristics of Negro Expression John Dos Passos (1896–1970) The Writer as Technician Richard Wright (1908–1960) from Blueprint for Negro Writing Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) Ada Miss Furr and Miss Skeene Picasso
Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) Winesburg, Ohio Hands Paper Pills *Adventure
Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) Flowering Judas
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) *Spunk
The Gilded Six-Bits
**Writers on Writers: Alice Walker on Zora Neale Hurston
Alice Walker (b. 1944)
From "A Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View"Nella Larsen (1891–1964) Sanctuary
María Cristina Mena (1893–1965) The Vine Leaf
Jean Toomer (1894–1967) Cane Portrait in Georgia Blood Burning Moon Seventh Street
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) The Ice Palace
John Dos Passos (1896–1970) 1919—Two Portraits Vag
William Faulkner (1897–1962) That Evening Sun Barn Burning
**Writers on Writers: Toni Morrison on William Faulkner
Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
from Faulkner and Women
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
Big Two-Hearted River**Writers on Writers: Terry Tempest Williams on Ernest Hemingway
Terry Tempest Williams (b. 1955)
from Hemingway and the Natural World
**Meridel Le Sueur (1900-1996)
Annunciation John Steinbeck (1902–1968) FlightRichard Wright (1908–1960) Almos’ a Man
Eudora Welty (1909–2001) *Lily Daw and the Three Ladies
Carlos Bulosan (1911–1956)
The End of the War
AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1945
INTRODUCTION Culture and Society in the Age of Affluence Comparative Timeline Conflicts at Home and Abroad Into the Twenty-First Century FROM MODERNISM TO POSTMODERNISM INTRODUCTIONTheodore Roethke (1908–1963) My Papa’s Waltz Cuttings Cuttings (later) Root Cellar The Waking I Knew a Woman The Far Field
**Writers on Writers: Sherman Alexie on Theodore Roethke
Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)
from "A Conversation: Sherman Alexie and Diane Thiel"
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
*The Fish
Sestina
The Armadillo In the Waiting Room One Art Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) Portrait of a MadonnaRobert Hayden (1913–1980) Middle Passage Tillie Olsen (1912?–2007) I Stand Here Ironing John Berryman (1914–1972) From The Dream Songs 1 [Huffy Henry hid the day,] 4 [Filling her compact & delicious body] 14 [Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.] 26 [The glories of the world struck me, made me aria, once.] 45 [He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back.] 384 [The marker slants, flowerless, day’s almost done,]
Ralph Ellison (1913–1994) The Invisible Man
Bernard Malamud (1914–1986) The First Seven Years
Saul Bellow (1915–2005) Looking for Mr. Green
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) Death of a Salesman
Robert Lowell (1917–1977) Memories of West Street and Lepke Skunk Hour For the Union Dead Waking Early Sunday Morning Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2) A Street in Bronzeville kitchenette building the mother a song in the front yard the preacher: ruminates behind the sermon The Bean Eaters We Real Cool Malcolm X
Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921) Seventeen Syllables
**Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
Alone on a Mountaintop
James Baldwin (1924–1987)
Notes of a Native SonFlannery O’Connor (1925–1964) A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) Howl
John Ashbery (b. 1927) The One Thing That Can Save America *And Ut Picture Poesis Is Her Name My Erotic Double
Paradoxes and Oxymorons
Edward Albee (b. 1928)
The SandboxAdrienne Rich (b. 1929) Trying to Talk with a Man A Valediction Forbidding Mourning Diving into the Wreck Power
Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
She Unnames Them
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
Riprap Beneath My Hand and Eye the Distant Hills, Your Body Wave Axe Handles Ripples on the SurfaceDonald Barthelme (1931–1989) The School Toni Morrison (b. 1931) Recitatif
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) Morning Song Blackberrying Mirror Daddy Lady Lazarus
John Updike (b. 1932) A & P
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934)
Dutchman
Audre Lorde (1934–1992)
Coal The Woman Thing Black Mother Woman StationsDon DeLillo (b. 1936) Videotape Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) American History Dear John, Dear Coltrane Martin’s Blues "Bird Lives": Charles Parker in St. Louis
Raymond Carver (1938–1988) Are These Actual Miles?
**Writers on Writers: John Updike on Raymond Carver
John Updike (b. 1932)
from Raymond Carver: 1938-1988Gloria Anzaldúa (1942–2004) El sonavabitche
**Writers on Writers: Sandra Cisneros on Gloria Anzaldúa
Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954)
A Note to Gloria from the Bottom of the Sea
Alice Walker (b. 1944)
Everyday Use**August Wilson (1945-2005) The Janitor
Tim O’Brien (b. 1946) The Things They Carried **Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) The Dead at Quang Tri Tu Do Street Prisoners Facing It
Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948) Yellow Woman Joy Harjo (b. 1951) New Orleans Anchorage If You Look with the Mind of the Swirling Earth 0 The Land Is a Poem
Rita Dove (b. 1952) David Walker The House Slave Kentucky, 1833 Canary History
Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954) Mericans
Martín Espada (b. 1957) Bully Latin Night at the Pawnshop Federico’s Ghost Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
Sherman Alexie (b. 1966) What You Pawn I Will Redeem
**Junot Díaz (b. 1968) Invierno AMERICAN CONTEXTS "Inventing the Truth": The Contemporary Memoir Introduction N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934) from The Names: A Memoir Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940) from The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts David Mamet (b. 1947) The Rake: Scenes from My Childhood bell hooks (b. 1952) from Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood Gary Soto (b. 1952) Like Mexicans **Allison Bechdel (b. 1960) from Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic