The Harper American Literature. 3rd ed. paper 3000 p.
McQuade, Donald. 著
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CONTENTS The Literature of the New World. Introduction. The Discoveriesof America. Native American Literature: First Encounters. How the New WorldBecame America. A Literature of Experience. America and the Pastoral Ideal.Survival and Rebirth. Toward a Pluralistic Culture. Native AmericanNarratives. A Bering Strait Eskimo Creation Account. The Time When There WereNo People on the Earth Plain. Seneca Account. The Story Telling Stone.Cultural Portfolio: The European Conquest of America. The Saga of theGreenlanders, Anonymous. Michele de Cuneo's Letter on Columbus's SecondVoyage, Michele de Cuneo. Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of Conquest ofMexico, Anonymous. @MAHEADS = The Conquest of New Spain, Bernal Diaz. TheBook of Chilam Balam of Chumayel, Anonymous. The Conquest of New Spain,Bernal Diaz. Letter to the King, Giovanni da Verrazano. The Narrative of theExpedition of Coronado, Pedro de Casteneda. A Brief and True Report of theNew Found Land of Virginia, Thomas Hariot. The Journal of the First Voyage,October 12, 1492. Michele de Cuneo's Letter on the Second Voyage, October 28,1495. Columbus's Letter to the Sovereigns on the Third Voyage, October 18,1498. The Narrative of Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca.Letter to Captain John Smith, Powhatan. The Generall Historie of Virginia,New England, and the Summer Isles, Book III, Chapter II "Captain Smith'sCaptivity", Captain John Smith. From a Description of New England "GrowingRich in the New World". The Literature of Colonial America. Introduction. A"Citty upon a Hill:" - New England. The Religious Background. The Voyage; TheLandfall. Puritan Beliefs. Puritan Literature. Native Americans. GovernmentObedience. Women. A "Vale of Plenty" - The South. Southern Intellectual Life.Toward the Revolution: the 18th Century. The Enlightenment. Jonathan Edwardsand the Great Awakening. Settlers and Skirmishes. Of Plymouth Plantation,William Bradford. Related Voices. The Life of William Bradford, Esq, CottonMather. A Model of Christian Charity, John Winthrop. The Prologue, AnneBradstreet. The Author to Her Book. Before the Birth of One of Her Children.To My Dear and Loving Husband. In Memory of My Dear Grandchild ElizabethBradstreet. Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House. To MyDear Children. Cultural Portfolio: The Witchcraft Trials. Witch Hunting &Witch Trials, C. L'Estrange Ewen. Magnelia Christi Americana, Cotton Mather.The Diary of Samuel Sewall, Samuel Sewall. Anne Hutchinson's Trial. From TheAntinomian Controversy (David D. Hall, ed.). From John Winthrop's Journal. ANarrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, MaryRowlandson. Related Voices. Hanna Dustan's Narrative, Cotton Mather. @AHEADS= Cultural Portfolio: The Ways of the Native Americans. Book III: Of theIndians, Their Religion, Laws, and Customs, in War and Peace, Robert Beverly.A Key Into the Language of America, Roger Williams. History of the DividingLine, William Byrd. Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson.Preparatory Meditations, Edward Taylor. William Byrd: His Secret Diary forthe Years 1709-1712, William Byrd. From Personal Narrative, Jonathan Edwards.From Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. The Autobiography, BenjaminFranklin. Poor Richard Improved, 1758. From Information to Those Who WouldRemove to America. Native Americans and the Myth of the Noble Savage. From"Of Coaches", Michel de Montaigne. Of Plymouth Plantation, William Bradford.From Letter to Sir William Ashurst (May 3, 1700), Samuel Sewall. From Letter(1732), General Jeffrey Amherst. From Discourse upon the Origin andFoundation of the Inequality Among Mankind, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. From ANarrative of the Late Massacres in Lancaster County, Benjamin Franklin. FromTravels Round the World in the Years 1767-1771, Pierre Marie Francois dePages. The Unseen Helpers, Seneca and Cherokee Oral History. Hemp-Carrier. ASermon Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, An Indian Samson Occom. Onthe Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770, Phillis Wheatley. On BeingBrought from Africa to America. To S. M. a Young African Painter, on SeeingHis Works. To His Excellency General Washington. Related Voices. ThomasJefferson. Notes on the State of Virginia, 1787. The Literature of the NewRepublic, 1776-1836. Introduction. The Literature of Persuasion. MakingThirteen Clocks Tick Together. Cultivating New Meanings. The Quest forLiterary Independence. Westward Course of Empire. Printing and the ReadingPublic. Frontiers of Literature. The Prospects of an American Literature. TheMakings of American Literature. European Models and the American Landscape.The Declaration of Independence as Adopted by Congress, Thomas Jefferson.Notes on the State of Virginia. Letter to John Adams: "March 31, 1776: ThePassion for Liberty", Abigail Adams. Related Voices. From An Address to theLegislature of New York Proposing a Plan for Improving Female Education(1819), Emma Willard. Common Sense, Thomas Paine. The American Crisis.Letters from an American Farmer, St. Jean de Crevecoeur. The InterestingNarrative of the Life of Oloudah Equiano, Oloudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa).Cultural Portfolio: Slavery, Freedom, and Identity. The Selling of Joseph: AMemorial, Samuel Sewall. An Address to the Public; from the PennsylvaniaSociety for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of FreeNegroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, Benjamin Franklin. Notes on the State ofVirginia: On the Traits of Blacks, Thomas Jefferson. Black Petitions forFreedom. The American Museum; or, Repository of Ancient and Modern FugitivePieces, Prose and Poetical (May 1789), Anonymous. From Letter IX: CharlestonSlave, St. Jean de Crevecoeur. No. 10 "James Madison" The Federalist. On theEmigration to America and Peopling the Western Country, Philip Freneau. TheWild Honey Suckle. The Indian Burying Ground. On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man.Native Americans and "Westward the Course of Empire". "1786", ThomasJefferson. July 13, 1787, Northwest Ordinance. "Message to Congress (December6, 1830)", President Andrew Jackson. "Indian Wars of the West (1833), TimothyFlint. From Letter to President Martin Van Buren on the removal of theCherokee Indians (April 23, 1838), Ralph Waldo Emerson. From Review ofFrancis Parkman's The California and Oregon Trail 1849), Herman Melville. ASon of the Forest, William Apess. The Sketch Book, Washington Irving. Rip VanWinkle. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Cultural Portfolio: Asserting a NationalLanguage and Literature. Dissertations on the English Language (1789), NoahWebster. Fable from American Spelling Book. Letters from an American Farmer,St. Jean de Crevecoeur. From American Language and Literature (1815), WalterChanning. Salmagundi, Second Series. Saturday, August 19, 1820, James KirkePaulding. Preface to The Leather-stocking Tales, James Fenimore Cooper. TheDeerslayer. The Pioneers. The Prairie. Appeal to the Christian Women of theSouth, Sarah and Angelina Grimke. Related Voices. Sojourner Truth "AsReported in The Anti-Slavery Bugle". Thanatopsis, William Cullen Bryant. To aWaterfowl. The Prairies. The Literature of the American Renaissance,1836-1865. @AHEADS = Introduction. "Who Reads American Books?" A Revolutionin Consciousness. "Incomparable Materials." An Improving Spirit. "Self-madeor Never Made." Gold Rush. Railroad Iron. Impending Crisis. "Swallow Barn",John Pendleton Kennedy. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Related Voices. "The Supremacyof Mind over Matter", George Ripley. Nature. The American Scholar. RelatedVoices. Air Intllectual declaration of Independence Thomas Carlyle, OliverWendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell. An Address. Self-Reliance. ThePoet. Experience. Concord Hymn. The Rhodora. Each and All. Hamatreya. Days.Cultural Portfolio: Nature's Nation. From Essay on American Scenery, ThomasCole. From Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson. From Circles. From The Knickerbocker,James Brooks. The Maine Woods, Henry David Thoreau. From The Pioneers, JamesFenimore Cooper. Walden, Henry David Thoreau. Resistance to Civil Government.American Literature, Margaret Fuller. Ligeia, Edgar Allan Poe. The Fall ofthe House of Usher. The Purloined Letter. The Cask of Amontillado. ThePhilosophy of Composition. Sonnet - To Science. To Helen. The Raven. Ulalume- A Ballad. Annabel Lee. The Bells. My Kinsman, Major Molineux, NathanielHawthorne. Young Goodman Brown. Wakefield. The Maypole of Merry Mount. TheMinister's Black Veil. Rappacini's Daughter. Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Taleof Wall Street, Herman Melville. The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarusof Maids. Billy Budd, Sailor. Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War. Timoleon,Etc. Massachusetts to Virginia, John Greenleaf Whittier. Ichabod. SkipperIreson's Ride. Telling the Bees. Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe.Headnote, Harriet Ann Jacobs. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The BigBear of Arkansas, Thomas Bangs Thorpe. The Narrative of the Life of FrederickDouglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, Frederick Douglass. A Diaryfrom Dixie, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut. Address Delivered at the Dedicationof the Cemetery at Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln. Second Inaugural Address.Little Women, Louisa May Alcott. Rebecca Harding Davis. Life in the IronMills. Related Voices. From Iron Interests of Wheeling, A. W. Campbell. FromThe Gospel of Wealth, Andrew Carnegie. From Testimony Before the UnitedStates Senate Committee on Labor and Education, 1883, John Roach. FromLectures to Young Men, Henry Ward Beecher. Leaves of Grass "1891-1892"Prefaceto the 1855 Edition, Walt Whitman. Inscriptions. One's Self I Sing. I HearAmerica Singing. Song of Myself. Children of Adam. I Sing the Body Electric.Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City. Facing West from California's Shores.As Adam Early in the Morning. Calamus. I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing.Here the Frailest Leaves of Me. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry. Sea Drift. Out ofthe Cradle Endlessly Rocking. As I Ebbed With the Ocean of Life. By theRoadside. When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer. Drum-Taps. Cavalry Crossing aFord. A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown. A Sight in Campin the Daybreak Gray and Dim. The Wound-Dresser. Reconciliation. Memories ofPresident Lincoln. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. Autumn Rivulets.There Was a Child Went Forth. Passage to India. The Sleepers. Whispers ofHeavenly Death. A Noiseless Patient Spider. 67: "Success is countedsweetest", Emily Dickinson. 185: "Faith" is a Fine Invention". 214: "I Tastea Liquor Never Brewed-". 216: "Safe in the Alabaster Chambers-". 241: "I Likea Look of Agony". 258: "There's a Certain Slant of Light". 280: "I felt aFuneral, in My Brain". 303: "The Soul Selects her own Society-". 324: "SomeKeep the Sabbath Going to Church-". 338: "I Know that He Exists". 341: "AfterGreat Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes-". 401: "What Soft-Cherubic Creatures-".435: "Much Madness is Divinest Sense-". 441: "This is My Letter to theWorld". 448: "This was a Poet - It is That". 449: "I Died for Beauty - Butwas Scarce". 465: "I Heard a Fly Buzz - When I Died-". 501: "This World isnot Conclusion". 536: "The Hearts asks Pleasure - First-". 585: "I Like toSee it Lap the Miles-". 632: "The Brain - is Wider Than the Sky-". 640: "ICannot Live with You-". 650: "Pain - Has an Element of Blank-". 657: "I Dwellin Possibility-". 709: "Publication - is the Auction". 712: "Because I CouldNot Stop for Death-". 721: "Behind Me - Dips Eternity-". 754: "My Life hadStood - A Loaded Gun-". 764: "Presentiment - is That Long Shadow - on theLawn". 986: "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass". 1052: "I Never Saw a Moor-".1071: "Perception of an Object Costs". 1078: "The Bustle in a House". 1125:"Oh Sumptuous Moment". 1129: "Tell All the Truth But Tell it Slant-". 1463:"A Route of Evanescence". 1540: "As Imperceptibly as Grief". 1545: "The Bibleis an Antique Volume-". 1624: "Apparently with No Surprise". 1651: "A Wordmade Flesh is Seldom". 1670: "In Winter in My Room". 1732: "My Life ClosedTwice Before its Close-". 1755: "To Make a Prairie it Takes a Clover and OneBee". 1760: "Elysium is as Far as To". Excerpts from the Letters of EmilyDickinson. The Literature of an Expanding Nation, 1865-1912. Introduction.The Paradox of Peace. Opportunism and Corruption. Exposure and Reform. TheOld Order Gives Way. The Writer's Profession. Getting at "The Real." WritingAbout Lives on the Margin. The Writer's Challenge. What is an "American"?Emerging Feminine Identities. New Words, New Definitions. A Nation Connected.A New Reading Public. Thinking Hard and Writing Well. Cultural Portfolio: TheNew Immigrants. The New Colossus, Emma Lazarus. The American Scene, HenryJames. The Rise of David Levinsky, Abraham Cahan. Angel Island, Anonymous.The Biography of a Chinaman, Lee Chew. From Bread Givers, Anzia Yezierska.Native American Assimilation and a Reemerging Tradition. From The Conspiracyof Pontiac (1851), Francis Parkman. From Message to Congress (1867),President Andrew Johnson. From United States v. Lucero (1869) U.S. SupremeCourt. From letter to the city officials at Santa Fe, New Mexico (1883), WaltWhitman. From the North American Review (April 1902), Hamlin Garland. FromThe Bear (1942), William Faulkner. Seattle (1786-1866) Our People are EbbingAway Like a Rapidly Receding Tide. Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1844-1891) LifeAmong the Piutes. The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Mark Twain.Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses. Corn-Pone Opinions. The Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn. From The American Short Story, William Dean Howells.Editha. The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams. The Dynamo and the Virgin(1900). From The Art of Fiction, Henry James. From Preface to The American.From Hawthorne. Daisy Miller. The Diary of Alice James, Alice James. AnOccurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce. Cultural Portfolio: OralTraditions and Turn-of-the-Century Literature. The Journal of AmericanFolklore, Franz Boas, et al. Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories, HarrietBeecher Stowe. My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's, Marietta Holley (JosiahAllen's Wife). Eastern European Jewish Oral Tradition. Yiddish Proverbs,Translated by Isadore Goldstick. How to Tell a Story, Mark Twain. TheVirginian, Owen Wister. From Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a Nat'ral BornDurn'd Fool, George Washington Harris. The Rabbit and the Tar Wolf, CherokeeOral Tradition. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, Joel Chandler Harris.Mules and Men, Zora Neale Hurston. Steal Away to Jesus, African AmericanSpirituals. Go Down, Moses. The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Dubois. Balladsand World Songs, John Henry. Cotton Mill Colic. Gone with the Wind, MargaretMitchell. A White Heron, Sarah Orne Jewett. The Awakening, Kate Chopin. TheYellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Why I Wrote "The YellowWallpaper". Related Voices. The Great Modern American Stories, William DeanHowells. The Other Two, Edith Wharton. Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington.The Souls of Black Folks, W. E. B. Dubois. Frederick Douglass, Paul LaurenceDunbar. We Wear the Mask. Sympathy. Richard Cory, Edward Arlington Robinson.Miniver Cheevy. Eros Turannos. Mr. Flood's Party. The Open Boat, StephenCrane. The Black Riders and Other Lines. He Got a Ride, Theodore Dreiser. ToBuild a Fire, Jack London. Impressions of an Indian Childhood, Zitkala S'a(Gertrude Simmons Bonnin). School Days. The Literature of a New Century,1912-1945. Introduction. New World: New Writers. The Great War. The Age ofBusiness and Frolic. Racism and Sexism. An Alienated Generation. The Makingof American Modernists. From the Crash to the New Deal. Social Criticism andMarxism. The Second World War. The Dawn of Postmodernism. Neighbor Rosicky,Willa Cather. The Mending Wall, Robert Frost. The Road Not Taken. The OvenBird. After Apple-Picking. Birches. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.Once by the Pacific. Desert Places. Design. The Most of It. Directive.Trifles, Susan Keating Glaspell. The Egg, Sherwood Anderson. Chicago, CarlSandburg. Fog. Cool Tombs. Sunday Morning, Wallace Stevens. Thirteen Ways ofLooking at a Blackbird. Anecdote of the Jar. The Emperor of Ice-Cream. TheIdea of Order at Key West. The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain.America and I, Anzia Yezierska. Queen Anne's Lace, William Carlos Williams.Spring and All. The Red Wheelbarrow. This is Just to Say. The Yachts. TheRiver-Merchant's Wife: A Letter, Ezra Pound. A Pact. In a Station in theMetro. From Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts). From The Cantos. SeaRose, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle). Oread. Helen. Boats in a Fog, RobinsonJeffers. Hurt Hawks. Poetry, Marianne Moore. The Fish. A Grave. The Monkeys.The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T. S. Eliot. Gerontion. The Waste Land.The Hollow Men. From Tradition and the Individual Talent. The Emperor Jones,Eugene O'Neill. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, Katherine Anne Porter. TheGilded Six-Bits, Zora Neale Hurston. Spunk. "Euclid Alone has Looked onBeauty Bare", Edna St. Vincent Millay. "Love is Not All; It is Not Meat norDrink". Cane, Jean Toomer. Cultural Portfolio: The Harlem Renaissance. FromThe New Negro: An Interpretation, Alain Locke. God's Trombones, James WeldonJohnson. From The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain, Langston Hughes. TheHeart of a Woman, Georgia Douglas Johnson. Smothered Fires. Motherhood.Sweat, Zora Neale Hurston. Ma Rainey, Sterling A. Brown. Slim in Hell.Remembering Nat Turner. Yet Do I Marvel, Countee Cullen. Incident. Heritage.Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem, Helene Johnson. What Do I Care for Morning.Remember Not. The Big Sea, Langston Hughes. "in Just-", E. E. Cummings. "theCambridge ladies who live in furnished souls". "next to god of course americai". "my sweet old etcetera". "i sing of Olaf glad and big". "anyone lived ina pretty how town". "what a proud dreamhorse". Winter Dreams, F. ScottFitzgerald. Spotted Horses, William Faulkner. That Evening Sun. Barn Burning.Cultural Portfolio: The Southern Renaissance. From The Mind of the South, W.J. Cash. Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe. From The Sound and the Fury,William Faulkner. Two Writers' Beginnings. From Black Boy: A Record ofChildhood and Youth, Richard Wright. From American Hunger. From A SweetDevouring, Eudora Welty. Three Poets. Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter,John Crowe Ransom. Piazza Piece. The Equilibrists. Ode to the ConfederateDead, Allen Tate. Bearded Oaks, Robert Penn Warren. Two Collaborations. FromYou Have Seen Their Faces, Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White. FromLet Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee and Walker Evans. Black Tambourine,Hart Crane. Chaplinesque. At Melville's Tomb. Voyages I, II, III. The Bridge(selection). Soldier's Home, Ernest Hemingway. The Negro Speaks of Rivers,Langston Hughes. The Weary Blues. I, Too. Dream Boogie. Theme for English B.Long Black Song, Richard Wright. Why I Live at the P.O. , Eudora Welty. TheLiterature Since Midcentury, 1945- the Present. Introduction. ContemporaryLiterature. The First Post war Generation. The Second Post war Generation andVietnam. Cuttings, Theodore Roethke. Cuttings (later). My Papa's Waltz. TheLost Son. Elegy for Jane. The Waking. The Fish, Elizabeth Bishop. At theFishhouses. Questions of Travel. Sestina. In the Waiting Room. One Art. TheGlass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams. Homage to the Empress of the Blues,Robert Hayden. Those Winter Sundays. A Letter from Phillis Wheatley. RelatedVoices. A Letter to Obour Tanner, Phillis Wheatley. I Stand Here Ironing,Tillie Olsen. The Battle Royal, Ralph Ellison. The Death of the Ball TurretGunner, Randall Jarrell. The Woman at the Washington Zoo. Memories of WestStreet and Lepke, Robert Lowell. Skunk Hour. For the Union Dead. History. ForJohn Berryman. Epilogue. From A Street in Bronzeville, Gwendolyn Brooks.Negro Hero. A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi.@AHEADS = Meanwhile,a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon. The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of EmmetTill. The Blackstone Rangers. Young Afrikans@MAHEADS = Love Calls Us to theThings of This World, Richard Wilbur. Playboy. The Writer. Cottage Street,1953. Pleasures, Denise Levertov. The Ache of Marriage. O Taste and See.Where Is the Angel? From The Armies of the Night, Norman Mailer. Sonny'sBlues, James Baldwin. Letter to My Nephew on the One-Hundredth Anniversary ofthe Emancipation. A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor. From Howl,Allen Ginsburg. A Supermarket in California. America. The Painter, JohnAshbery. These Lacustrine Cities. Soonest Mended. Syringa. Landscapeople.Lament for My Brother on a Hayrake, James Wright. A Note Left in JimmyLeonard's Shack. At the Executed Murderer's Grave. Autumn Begins in Martin'sFerry, Ohio. Lightning Bugs Asleep in the Afternoon. Coming Home, PhilipLevine. They Feed the Lion. You Can have It. Her Kind, Anne Sexton. The Truththe Dead Know. Self in 1958. For My Lover, Returning to His Wife. Snow Whiteand the Seven Dwarfs. Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr.Living in Sin, Adrienne Rich. The Knight. Necessities of Life. "I Am inDanger - Sir -." Trying to Talk with a Man. Diving into the Wreck.Translations. The Ninth Symphony of Beethoven Understood at Last as a SexualMessage. Playing in the Dark, Toni Morrison. Separating, John Updike. BlackRook in Rainy Weather, Sylvia Plath. Daddy. Medusa. Ariel. Lady Lazarus.Death & Co. Fever 1030. The Conversion of the Jews, Philip Roth. Black MotherWoman, Audre Lorde. Equinox. Walking Our Boundaries. Afterimages. House Madeof Dawn, N. Scott Momaday. From The Priest of the Sun. Ghosts, Mary Oliver.Owls. The Sun. When Death Comes. Thorow, Susan Howe. Dear John, DearColtrane, Michael S. Harper. American History. Nightmare BeginsResponsibility. Peace on Earth. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?Joyce Carol Oates. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, RaymondCarver. Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason. The Woman Warrior; No Name Woman, MaxineHong Kingston. Everyday Use, Alice Walker. The Things They Carried, TimO'Brien. Storyteller, Leslie Marmon Silko. Lullaby. The Geese, Jorie Graham.Over and Over Stitch. Mind. My Garden, My Daylight. Banneker, Rita Dove.Parsley. Roast Possum. Dusting. Mississippi. In a Neutral City. The Kind ofLight That Shines on Texas, Reginald McKnight. Lost on September Trail, 1967,Alberto Rios. Mi Abuelo. Nani. The Good Lunch of Oceans. Barbie-Q, SandraCisneros. Lulu's Boys, Louise Erdrich. Lost Sister, Cathy Song. YoungestDaughter. The White Porch. Beauty and Sadness. Mona in the Promised Land,Gish Jen. Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Tony Kushner. EatingTogether, Li-Young Lee. Persimmons. The City in Which I Love You. CulturalPortfolio: Who Is an American Writer? Terra Incognita, Vladimir Nabokov.Escape from Civilization, Isaac Bashevis Singer. To Robinson Jeffers, CzeslawMilosz. To the Western World, Louis (Aston Marantz) Simpson. American Poetry.A Far Cry From Africa, Derek Walcott. Preparing for Exile. Old New England.Sarita, Maria Irene Fornes. Happiness, Bharati Mukherjee. Letters from theMing Dynasty, Joseph Brodsky. May 24, 1980, Girl, Jamaica Kincaid. Lettersfrom the Ming Dynasty, Joseph Brodsky. May 24, 1980, Girl, Jamaica Kincaid.