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Backpack Literature: Fourth Edition ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia (Pearson, 2012, 978-0-205-15166-0, xxxvii+1193pp, tp, an)     Subtitled “An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing”, a massive anthology of stories and poems whose primary aim is “to introduce college students to the appreciation and experience of literature in its major forms”. The book contains lengthy articles and surrounding material (not indexed) to frame the pieces included. xxx · Preface · X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia · pr xxxvi · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg 1 · Fiction 2 · Talking with Amy Tan: “Life Is Larger Than We Think” · Dana Gioia · iv Backpack Literature: Third Edition ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2010 [Ref. Amy Tan] 5 · Chapter 1: Reading a Story 6 · The Appointment in Samarra · W. Somerset Maugham · ex from Sheppey, Heinemann, 1933 7 · The Fox and the Grapes · Aesop; translated by V. S. Vernon Jones · vi Aesop’s Fables by Aesop, tr. Vernon Jones, William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912 8 · The Camel and His Friends · Bidpai; translated by Arundhati Khanwalker · vi from The Panchatantra (r) 10 · Independence · Chuang Tzu; translated by Herbert Giles · vi Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer by Chuang Tzu, tr. Herbert Giles, Bernard Quaritch, 1889 12 · Godfather Death · Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm; translated by Dana Gioia · ss Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 translated from the German. 18 · A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 22 1961 28 · Chapter 2: Point of View 33 · A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930 41 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843 46 · Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · vi The New Yorker June 26 1978 48 · A Haunted House · Virginia Woolf · vi Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, 1921 54 · Chapter 3: Character 56 · The Jilting of Granny Weatherall · Katherine Anne Porter · ss Transition February 1929 64 · Miss Brill · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Athenaeum November 26 1920 69 · Everyday Use · Alice Walker · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1973 77 · Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981 93 · Chapter 4: Setting 95 · The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin, Louisiana State University, 1969 100 · The Gospel According to Mark · Jorge Luis Borges; translated by Andrew Hurley · ss Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, tr. Andrew Hurley, Viking, 1998 translated from the Spanish (“El Evangelio según Marcos”, El informe de Brodie, 1970). 106 · To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 1902 119 · A Pair of Tickets · Amy Tan · ex from The Joy Luck Club, Putnam, 1989 138 · Chapter 5: Tone and Style 142 · A Clean, Well-Lighted Place · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1933 147 · Barn Burning · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1939 164 · The Gift of the Magi · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World December 10 1905, as “Gifts of the Magi” 168 · The Story of an Hour · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue December 6 1894, as “The Dream of an Hour” 174 · Chapter 6: Theme 177 · Brownies · Z. Z. Packer · ss Harper’s Magazine November 1999 194 · The Open Boat · Stephen Crane · nv Scribner’s Magazine June 1897 215 · The Parable of the Prodigal Son · [uncredited] · ss King James Version, Robert Barker, 1611 216 · Harrison Bergeron · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1961 225 · Chapter 7: Symbol 228 · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937 237 · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892 252 · The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss New Dimensions 3 ed. Robert Silverberg, SFBC, 1973 258 · The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948 269 · Chapter 8: Stories for Further Reading 269 · Dead Men’s Path · Chinua Achebe · ss Girls at War and Other Stories by Chinua Achebe, Pearson Education, 1972 272 · This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona · Sherman Alexie · ss Esquire June 1993 283 · The Judge’s Wife · Isabel Allende; translated by Margaret Sayers Peden · ss The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende, tr. Margaret Sayers Peden, Antheneum, 1991 290 · Happy Endings · Margaret Atwood · ss The Humanist September/October 1987 293 · Greasy Lake · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss The Paris Review #83, Spring 1982 302 · The House on Mango Street · Sandra Cisneros · ex Arte Publico Press, 1984 304 · Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion” 315 · Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Grant Richards, 1914 321 · Before the Law · Franz Kafka; translated by John Siscoe · ss Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 translated from the German (“Vor dem Gesetz”, Selbstwehr, September 7, 1915). 323 · Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Epoch Fall 1966 337 · The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986 352 · A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953 365 · A Worn Path · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1941 373 · Poetry 374 · Talking with Kay Ryan: “Language That Lasts” · Dana Gioia · iv Backpack Literature: Third Edition ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2010 [Ref. Kay Ryan] 376 · To the Muse · X. J. Kennedy · pm Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 377 · Chapter 9: Reading a Poem 379 · The Lake Isle of Innisfree · William Butler Yeats · pm The National Observer December 13 1890 382 · Those Winter Sundays · Robert Hayden · pm A Ballad of Remembrance by Robert Hayden, Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962 382 · Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers · Adrienne Rich · pm A Change of World by Adrienne Rich, Yale University Press, 1951 383 · Sir Patrick Spence · [uncredited] · pm (r) 385 · “Out, Out—” · Robert Frost · pm McClure’s Magazine July 1916 387 · My Last Duchess · Robert Browning · pm Dramatic Lyrics by Robert Browning, Edward Moxon, 1842, as “Italy” 390 · Ask Me · William Stafford · pm The New Yorker July 7 1975 393 · Chapter 10: Listening to a Voice 393 · My Papa’s Waltz · Theodore Roethke · pm Harper’s Bazaar February 1942 395 · For a Lady I Know · Countee Cullen · pm Color by Countee Cullen, Harper & Brothers, 1925 395 · The Author to Her Book · Anne Bradstreet · pm Several Poems by Anne Bradstreet, John Foster, 1678 396 · To a Locomotive in Winter · Walt Whitman · pm Two Rivulets by Walt Whitman, self-published, 1876 397 · I Like to See It Lap the Miles · Emily Dickinson · pm Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series by Emily Dickinson, Roberts Brothers, 1891, as “The Railway Train” 398 · Speech to the Young. Speech to the Progress-Toward · Gwendolyn Brooks · pm Family Pictures by Gwendolyn Brooks, Third World Press, 1970 399 · For My Daughter · Weldon Kees · pm The Kenyon Review Spring 1940 400 · White Lies · Natasha Trethewey · pm Domestic Work by Natasha Trethewey, Graywolf Press, 2000 401 · Luke Havergal · Edwin Arlington Robinson · pm Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson, self-published, 1897 402 · Hawk Roosting · Ted Hughes · pm Lupercal by Ted Hughes, Faber & Faber, 1960 403 · Dog Haiku · [uncredited] · pm (r) 404 · Theme for English B · Langston Hughes · pm Montage of a Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes, Henry Holt and Company, 1951 405 · Her Kind · Anne Sexton · pm To Bedlam and Part Way Back by Anne Sexton, Houghton Mifflin, 1960 406 · The Red Wheelbarrow · William Carlos Williams · pm Spring and All by William Carlos Williams, Contact Publishing Co., 1923, as “XXII” 407 · Oh No · Robert Creeley · pm For Love: Poems 1950–1960 by Robert Creeley, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962 408 · The Unknown Citizen · W. H. Auden · pm The Listener August 3 1939 410 · Rite of Passage · Sharon Olds · pm The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds, Alfred A. Knopf, 1984 410 · Second Fig · Edna St. Vincent Millay · pm A Few Figs from Thistles by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Frank Shay, 1920 411 · The Workbox · Thomas Hardy · pm Satires of Circumstances by Thomas Hardy, Macmillan and Co., 1914 412 · Hate Poem · Julie Sheehan · pm The Best American Poetry 2005 ed. Paul Muldoon, Scribner, 2005 413 · To Lucasta · Richard Lovelace · pm Lucasta by Richard Lovelace, 1649 414 · Dulce et Decorum Est · Wilfred Owen · pm Poems by Wilfred Owen, Chatto and Windus, 1920 418 · Chapter 11: Words 418 · This Is Just to Say · William Carlos Williams · pm Collected Poems, 1921-1931 by William Carlos Williams, The Objectivist Press, 1934 420 · Silence · Marianne Moore · pm The Dial October 1924 420 · Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God, for You · John Donne · pm Poems by John Donne, Henry Seyle, 1633 422 · Aftermath · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · pm Aftermath by H. W. Longfellow, James R. Osgood & Co., 1873 423 · Mockingbird · Kay Ryan · pm The Best of It by Kay Ryan, Grove Press, 2010 424 · Friend, on This Scaffold Thomas More Lies Dead · J. V. Cunningham · pm The Exclusions of a Rhyme by J. V. Cunningham, Alan Swallow, 1960 425 · Grass · Carl Sandburg · pm Cornhuskers by Carl Sandburg, Henry Holt, 1918 425 · Bread · Samuel Menashe · pm Chimera Books, 1981 427 · Upon Julia’s Clothes · Robert Herrick · pm Hesperides by Robert Herrick, 1648 428 · The Ruined Maid · Thomas Hardy · pm Poems of the Past and Present by Thomas Hardy, Harper & Bros., 1901 429 · Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town · e. e. cummings · pm 50 Poems by e. e. cummings, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940 430 · Lonely Hearts · Wendy Cope · pm The Times Literary Supplement 1979 431 · Carnation Milk · [uncredited] · pm (r) 431 · English con Salsa · Gina Valdés · pm Cool Salsa ed. Lori M. Carlson, Henry Holt, 1994 432 · Jabberwocky · Lewis Carroll · pm from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Macmillan, December 1871 437 · Chapter 12: Saying and Suggesting 438 · London · William Blake · pm Songs of Experience by William Blake, 1794 440 · Disillusionment of Ten o’Clock · Wallace Stevens · pm Rogue March 15 1915 440 · The Bean Eaters · Gwendolyn Brooks · pm Poetry September 1959 441 · Fire and Ice · Robert Frost · pm Harper’s Magazine December 1920 441 · Coward · A. R. Ammons · pm The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons by A. R. Ammons, W.W. Norton & Company, 1992 442 · The Minefield · Diane Thiel · pm The Best American Poetry 1999 ed. Robert Bly, Scribner, 1999 442 · Bilingual/Bilingüe · Rhina P. Espaillat · pm Where Horizons Go by Rhina P. Espaillat, New Odyssey Press, 1998 443 · Tears, Idle Tears · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · pm from “The Princess”, Edward Moxon, 1847 444 · Love Calls Us to the Things of This World · Richard Wilbur · pm Things of This World by Richard Wilbur, Harcourt, Brace, 1956 448 · Chapter 13: Imagery 448 · In a Station of the Metro · Ezra Pound · pm Poetry April 1913 448 · The Piercing Chill I Feel · Taniguchi Buson · pm An Introduction to Haiku ed. Harold G. Henderson, Anchor Books, 1958 translated from the Japanese. 449 · The Winter Evening Settles Down · T. S. Eliot · pm Prufrock and Other Observations by T. S. Eliot, The Egoist, 1917, as “Prelude” 450 · Root Cellar · Theodore Roethke · pm The Lost Son and Other Poems by Theodore Roethke, Doubleday, 1948 450 · The Fish · Elizabeth Bishop · pm North and South by Elizabeth Bishop, Houghton Mifflin, 1946 452 · A Route of Evanescence · Emily Dickinson · pm The Atlantic Monthly October 1891 453 · Pied Beauty · Gerard Manley Hopkins · pm Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Humphrey Milford, 1918 453 · Reapers · Jean Toomer · pm Cane by Jean Toomer, Boni & Liveright, 1923 454 · The Falling Flower · Arakida Moritake; translated by Babette Deutsch · pm Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 translated from the Japanese. 455 · Heat-Lightning Streak · Matsuo Basho; translated by X. J. Kennedy · pm Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 translated from the Japanese. 455 · In the Old Stone Pool · Matsuo Basho; translated by X. J. Kennedy · pm Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 translated from the Japanese. 455 · On the One-Ton Temple Bell · Taniguchi Buson; translated by X. J. Kennedy · pm Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 translated from the Japanese. 455 · Moonrise on Mudflats · Taniguchi Buson; translated by Michael Sullivan · pm Backpack Literature: Third Edition ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2010 translated from the Japanese. 455 · Only One Guy · Kobayashi Issa; translated by Cid Corman · pm Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 translated from the Japanese. 455 · Cricket · Kobayashi Issa; translated by Robert Bly · pm Ten Poems by Kobayashi Issa, tr. Robert Bly, self-published, 1969 translated from the Japanese. 456 · Rain Shower from Mountain · Suiko Matsushita; translated by Violet Kazue de Cristoforo · pm May Sky: There Is Always Tomorrow ed. & tr. Violet Kazue de Cristoforo, Sun & Moon Press, 1997 translated from the Japanese. 456 · Cosmos in Bloom · Suiko Matsushita; translated by Violet Kazue de Cristoforo · pm May Sky: There Is Always Tomorrow ed. & tr. Violet Kazue de Cristoforo, Sun & Moon Press, 1997 translated from the Japanese. 456 · Even the Croaking of Frogs · Hakuro Wada; translated by Violet Kazue de Cristoforo · pm May Sky: There Is Always Tomorrow ed. & tr. Violet Kazue de Cristoforo, Sun & Moon Press, 1997 translated from the Japanese. 456 · The War, This Year · Neiji Ozawa; translated by Violet Kazue de Cristoforo · pm May Sky: There Is Always Tomorrow ed. & tr. Violet Kazue de Cristoforo, Sun & Moon Press, 1997 translated from the Japanese. 456 · Making Jazz Swing In · Etheridge Knight · pm Poems from Prison by Etheridge Knight, Broadside Press, 1968 456 · Learning to Shave · Adelle Foley · pm Along the Bloodline by Adelle Foley, Pantograph Press, 2003 456 · After Weeks of Watching the Roof Leak · Gary Snyder · pm Wild Dog #17, 1964 456 · Hole in the Ozone · Garry Gay · pm Frogpond v33 #2, Spring/Summer 2010 457 · Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art · John Keats · pm The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats by John Keats, Reeves & Turner, 1883 457 · El Hombre · William Carlos Williams · pm Al Que Quiere! by William Carlos Williams, The Four Seas Company, 1917 457 · Drinking Alone by Moonlight · Li Po; translated by Arthur Waley · pm More Translations from the Chinese ed. & tr. Arthur Waley, Allen & Unwin, 1919 translated from the Chinese. 458 · Embrace · Billy Collins · pm The Apple That Astonished Paris by Billy Collins, University of Arkansas Press, 1988 458 · Not Waving but Drowning · Stevie Smith · pm Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith, Andre Deutsch, 1957 459 · Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter · Robert Bly · pm Silence in the Snowy Fields by Robert Bly, Wesleyan University Press, 1962 462 · Chapter 14: Figures of Speech 463 · The Eagle · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · pm Poems (Seventh Edition) by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Edward Moxon, 1851 463 · Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? · William Shakespeare · pm Shake-speares Sonnets by William Shakespeare, Thomas Thorpe, 1609, as “Sonnet 18” 463 · Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? · Howard Moss · pm Minor Monuments by Howard Moss, The Ecco Press, 1986 466 · Flower in the Crannied Wall · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · pm The Holy Grail and Other Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Strahan and Co., 1869 466 · To See a World in a Grain of Sand · William Blake · pm from “Auguries of Innocence”, Life of William Blake by Alexander Gilchrist, Macmillan and Co., 1863 467 · My Life Had Stood, a Loaded Gun · Emily Dickinson · pm The London Mercury February 1929 467 · Metaphors · Sylvia Plath · pm The Colossus and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath, William Heinemann, 1960 468 · The Heart · Jill Alexander Essbaum · pm Poetry December 2009 468 · Simile · N. Scott Momaday · pm Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 468 · A Martian Sends a Postcard Home · Craig Raine · pm A Martian Sends a Postcard Home by Craig Raine, Oxford University Press, 1979 471 · The Wind · James Stephens · pm The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin by James Stephens, Macmillan, 1915, as “Stephen’s Green” 472 · You Fit Into Me · Margaret Atwood · pm Power Politics by Margaret Atwood, House of Anansi Press, 1971 473 · Epitaph · Timothy Steele · pm Counter/Measures #2, 1973 473 · Money · Dana Gioia · pm Gods of Winter by Dana Gioia, Graywolf Press, 1991 474 · Fog · Carl Sandburg · pm Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg, Henry Holt, 1916 474 · The Silken Tent · Robert Frost · pm The Virginia Quarterly Review Winter 1939 475 · Love and Friendship · Emily Brontë · pm Poems by Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell, Aylott and Jones, 1846, as by Ellis Bell 475 · Turtle · Kay Ryan · pm Flamingo Watching by Kay Ryan, Copper Beech Press, 1994 476 · Dim Lady · Harryette Mullen · pp Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen, University of California Press, 2002 476 · Ode on a Grecian Urn · John Keats · pm Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems by John Keats, Taylor and Hessey, 1820 481 · Chapter 15: Sound 483 · Who Goes with Fergus? · William Butler Yeats · pm from “The Countess Cathleen”, The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics by William Butler Yeats, T. Fisher Unwin, 1892 484 · A Slumber Did My Spirit Steal · William Wordsworth · pm Lyrical Ballads (Second Edition) by William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1800 484 · When Maidens Are Young · Aphra Behn · pm from The Emperor of the Moon, Ralph Holt, 1687 485 · Eight o’Clock · A. E. Housman · pm A Last Poems by A. E. Housman, Grant Richards, 1922 486 · The Splendor Falls on Castle Walls · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · pm from “The Princess (Third Edition)”, Edward Moxon, 1850 487 · Doo Wop · Kevin Young · pm Jelly Roll by Kevin Young, Knopf, 2003 489 · The Hippopotamus · Hilaire Belloc · pm Cautionary Verses by Hilaire Belloc, Duckworth, 1939 490 · Leda and the Swan · William Butler Yeats · pm To-Morrow August 1924 491 · God’s Grandeur · Gerard Manley Hopkins · pm Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Oxford University Press, 1918 492 · Desert Places · Robert Frost · pm The American Mercury April 1934 493 · In Memoriam John Coltrane · Michael Stillman · pm An Introduction to Poetry ed. X. J. Kennedy, Little, Brown & Co., 1966 496 · Chapter 16: Rhythm 500 · We Real Cool · Gwendolyn Brooks · pm Poetry September 1959 501 · Break, Break, Break · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · pm Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Edward Moxon, 1842 501 · Résumé · Dorothy Parker · pm New York World August 16 1925 506 · Counting-Out Rhyme · Edna St. Vincent Millay · pm The Buck in the Snow & Other Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Harper & Brothers, 1928 507 · When I Was One-and-Twenty · A. E. Housman · pm McClure’s Magazine May 1906 507 · Beat! Beat! Drums! · Walt Whitman · pm Harper’s Weekly September 28 1861 508 · Dream Boogie · Langston Hughes · pm Montage of a Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes, Henry Holt and Company, 1951 512 · Chapter 17: Closed Form 513 · This Living Hand, Now Warm and Capable · John Keats · pm The Complete Poetical Works and Letters of John Keats by John Keats, Houghton Mifflin, 1899 516 · Counting the Beats · Robert Graves · pm Good Housekeeping April 1950 517 · Song (“Go and catch a falling star”) · John Donne · pm Poems by John Donne, Henry Seyle, 1633 518 · Bonny Barbara Allan · [uncredited] · pm (r) 520 · Ballad of Birmingham · Dudley Randall · pm Broadside Press, 1965 522 · Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds · William Shakespeare · pm Shake-speares Sonnets by William Shakespeare, Thomas Thorpe, 1609, as “Sonnet 116” 522 · “What lips my lips have kissed, and when, and why…” · Edna St. Vincent Millay · pm Renascence 1917 523 · Acquainted with the Night · Robert Frost · pm The Virginia Quarterly Review October 1928 524 · Shakespearean Sonnet · R. S. Gwynn · pm The Drive-In by R. S. Gwynn, University of Missouri Press, 1986 524 · Rites to Allay the Dead · Amit Majmudar · pm Verse Daily March 11 2010 525 · Of Treason · Sir John Harrington · pm Epigrams by Sir John Harrington, 1615 525 · Two Somewhat Different Epigrams · Langston Hughes · pm New Poems by American Poets ed. Rolfe Humphries, Ballantine, 1953 526 · Contemplation · John Frederick Nims · pm Of Flesh and Bones by John Frederick Nims, Rutgers University Press, 1967 526 · The Actress · Dorothy Parker · pm The New Yorker August 29 1925 526 · Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night · Dylan Thomas · pm Botteghe Oscure #8, 1951 527 · We Wear the Mask · Paul Laurence Dunbar · pm Majors and Minors by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Hadley & Hadley, 1895 528 · Sestina · Elizabeth Bishop · pm The New Yorker September 15 1956 533 · Chapter 18: Open Form 533 · Ancient Stairway · Denise Levertov · pm This Great Unknowing by Denise Levertov, New Directions, 1999 536 · Buffalo Bill’s · e. e. cummings · pm The Dial January 1920 537 · For the Anniversary of My Death · W. S. Merwin · pm The Lice by W. S. Merwin, Atheneum, 1967 537 · The Dance · William Carlos Williams · pm Wedge by William Carlos Williams, The Cummington Press, 1944 539 · The Wayfarer · Stephen Crane · pm War Is Kind and Other Lines by Stephen Crane, Frederick A. Stokes, 1899 539 · Cavalry Crossing a Ford · Walt Whitman · pm Drum-Taps by Walt Whitman, Peter Eckler, 1865 540 · Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird · Wallace Stevens · pm Others: An Anthology of the New Verse ed. Alfred Kreymborg, Alfred A. Knopf, 1917 543 · The Magic Study of Happiness · Charles Simic · pp Dime-Store Alchemy by Charles Simic, The Ecco Press, 1992 544 · In Just— · e. e. cummings · pm The Dial May 1920 545 · I Shall Paint My Nails Red · Carole Satyamurti · pm Changing the Subject by Carole Satyamurti, Oxford University Press, 1990 545 · I, Too · Langston Hughes · pm Survey Graphic March 1925 548 · Chapter 19: Symbol 549 · The Boston Evening Transcript · T. S. Eliot · pm Poetry October 1915 550 · The Lightning Is a Yellow Fork · Emily Dickinson · pm Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series by Emily Dickinson, Roberts Brothers, 1891 551 · Neutral Tones · Thomas Hardy · pm Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy, Harper, 1898 552 · Facing It · Yusef Komunyakaa · pm Dien Cai Dau by Yusef Komunyakaa, Wesleyan University Press, 1988 553 · The Parable of the Good Seed · [uncredited] · pm King James Version, Robert Barker, 1611 554 · Redemption · George Herbert · pm The Temple by George Herbert, Thom. Buck and Roger Daniel, 1633 555 · The Road Not Taken · Robert Frost · pm The Atlantic Monthly August 1915 556 · Up-Hill · Christina Rossetti · pm Macmillan’s Magazine February 1861 557 · Wild Geese · Mary Oliver · pm Dream Work by Mary Oliver, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986 557 · Popcorn-Can Cover · Lorine Niedecker · pm Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. 1965 558 · Anecdote of the Jar · Wallace Stevens · pm Poetry October 1919 561 · Chapter 20: Myth and Narrative 562 · Nothing Gold Can Stay · Robert Frost · pm The Yale Review October 1923 563 · The World Is Too Much with Us · William Wordsworth · pm Poems, In Two Volumes by William Wordsworth, Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807 563 · Helen · H. D. (by Hilda Doolittle) · pm The Nation and Athenaeum January 27 1923 565 · Medusa · Louise Bogan · pm The New Republic 1921 566 · First Love: A Quiz · A. E. Stallings · pm Hapax by A. E. Stallings, Northwestern University Press, 2006 567 · The Second Coming · William Butler Yeats · pm The Dial November 1920 568 · Lady Lazarus · Sylvia Plath · pm Ariel by Sylvia Plath, Faber and Faber, 1965 572 · Cinderella · Anne Sexton · pm Transformations by Anne Sexton, Houghton Mifflin, 1971 577 · Chapter 21: What Is Poetry? 577 · Ars Poetica · Archibald MacLeish · pm Poetry June 1926 580 · Chapter 22: Poems for Further Reading 580 · Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Tortilla · Aaron Abeyta · pm Colcha by Aaron A. Abeyta, University Press of Colorado, 2001 582 · First Poem for You · Kim Addonizio · pp The Philosopher’s Club by Kim Addonizio, BOA Editions, 1993 582 · The Powwow at the End of the World · Sherman Alexie · pm The Summer of Black Widows by Sherman Alexie, Hanging Loose Press, 1996 583 · Dover Beach · Matthew Arnold · pm New Poems by Matthew Arnold, 1867 584 · Siren Song · Margaret Atwood · pm Selected Poems, 1965-1975 by Margaret Atwood, Houghton Mifflin, 1976 585 · September 1, 1939 · W. H. Auden · pm The New Republic October 18 1939 588 · Musée des Beaux Arts · W. H. Auden · pm New Writing Spring 1939, as “Palais des beaux arts” 589 · One Art · Elizabeth Bishop · pm The New Yorker April 26 1976 590 · The Tyger · William Blake · pm Songs of Experience by William Blake, 1794 591 · The Mother · Gwendolyn Brooks · pm A Street in Bronzeville by Gwendolyn Brooks, Harper & Brothers, 1945 592 · How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways · Elizabeth Barrett Browning · pm Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Chapman & Hall, 1850, as “Sonnet (“How do I love thee?…”)” 592 · Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister · Robert Browning · pm Dramatic Lyrics by Robert Browning, Edward Moxon, 1842, as “Cloister (Spanish)” 594 · Dostoevsky · Charles Bukowski · pm Bone Palace Ballet by Charles Bukowski, Black Sparrow Press, 1997 595 · Quinceañera · Judith Ortiz Cofer · pm Terms of Survival by Judith Ortiz Cofer, Arte Público Press, 1987 596 · Kubla Khan · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · pm Christabel/Kubla Khan/The Pains of Sleep by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Murray, 1816 598 · Care and Feeding · Billy Collins · pm Five Points Spring 2003 598 · Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond · e. e. cummings · pm ViVa by e. e. cummings, Boni & Liveright, 1931 599 · Wild Nights—Wild Nights! · Emily Dickinson · pm Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series by Emily Dickinson, Roberts Brothers, 1891 600 · I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died · Emily Dickinson · pm Poems by Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson, Roberts Brothers, 1890 600 · Because I Could Not Stop for Death · Emily Dickinson · pm Poems by Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson, Roberts Brothers, 1890 601 · Death Be Not Proud · John Donne · pm Poems by John Donne, Henry Seyle, 1633, as “Sonnet X” 601 · The Flea · John Donne · pm Poems by John Donne, Henry Seyle, 1633 602 · Daystar · Rita Dove · pm Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1986 603 · The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock · T. S. Eliot · pm Poetry June 1915 607 · Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening · Robert Frost · pm New Hampshire by Robert Frost, Henry Holt, 1923 608 · Mending Wall · Robert Frost · pm North of Boston by Robert Frost, David Nutt, 1914 609 · Birches · Robert Frost · pm The Atlantic Monthly August 1915 611 · A Supermarket in California · Allen Ginsberg · pm Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg, City Lights Books, 1956 612 · Hap · Thomas Hardy · pm Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy, Harper, 1898 612 · Digging · Seamus Heaney · pm Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney, Faber & Faber, 1966 613 · Easter Wings · George Herbert · pm The Temple by George Herbert, Thom. Buck and Roger Daniel, 1633 614 · To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time · Robert Herrick · pm Hesperides by Robert Herrick, 1648 614 · Spring and Fall · Gerard Manley Hopkins · pm Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Oxford University Press, 1918 615 · The Windhover · Gerard Manley Hopkins · pm Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Oxford University Press, 1918 615 · Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now · A. E. Housman · pm A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman, A.E. Housman, 1896 616 · To an Athlete Dying Young · A. E. Housman · pm A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman, A.E. Housman, 1896 617 · The Negro Speaks of Rivers · Langston Hughes · pm The Crisis June 1921 617 · Harlem · Langston Hughes · pm Montage of a Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes, Henry Holt and Company, 1951 618 · The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner · Randall Jarrell · pm Little Friend, Little Friend by Randall Jarrell, Dial Press, 1945 618 · Rock and Hawk · Robinson Jeffers · pm Solstice and Other Poems by Robinson Jeffers, Random House, 1935 619 · Missed Time · Ha Jin · pm Poetry July 2000 619 · On My First Son · Ben Jonson · pm The Workes of Beniamin Ionson by Ben Jonson, William Stansby, 1616 620 · Men at Forty · Donald Justice · pm Poetry May 1966 620 · Ode to a Nightingale · John Keats · pm Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems by John Keats, Taylor and Hessey, 1820 623 · To Autumn · John Keats · pm Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems by John Keats, Taylor and Hessey, 1820 624 · Poetry of Departures · Philip Larkin · pm The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin, The Marvell Press, 1955 625 · Piano · D. H. Lawrence · pm Love Poems and Others by D. H. Lawrence, Duckworth and Co., 1913 625 · Learning to Love America · Shirley Geok-lin Lim · pm What the Fortune Teller Didn’t Say by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, West End Press, 1998 626 · To His Coy Mistress · Andrew Marvell · pm Miscellaneous poems by Andrew Marvell, Esq. by Andrew Marvell, Robert Boulter, 1681 627 · Recuerdo · Edna St. Vincent Millay · pm Poetry May 1919 628 · When I Consider How My Light Is Spent · John Milton · pm Poems of Mr. John Milton, 2nd edn. by John Milton, Thomas Dring, 1673 628 · The One Girl at the Boys’ Party · Sharon Olds · pm The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds, Alfred A. Knopf, 1984 629 · Anthem for Doomed Youth · Wilfred Owen · pm Poems by Wilfred Owen, Chatto and Windus, 1920 630 · Daddy · Sylvia Plath · pm Ariel by Sylvia Plath, Faber and Faber, 1965 633 · Annabel Lee · Edgar Allan Poe · pm Tribune October 9 1849 634 · The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter · Ezra Pound · pm Cathay by Ezra Pound, Elkin Mathews, 1915 loosely translated from a poem by the Chinese poet Li Bai, called “Chánggān Xíng”. 635 · Naming of Parts · Henry Reed · pm The New Statesman and Nation August 1942 636 · Miniver Cheevy · Edwin Arlington Robinson · pm Scribner’s Magazine March 1907 637 · Nor Marble nor the Gilded Monuments · William Shakespeare · pm Shake-speares Sonnets by William Shakespeare, Thomas Thorpe, 1609, as “Sonnet 55” 637 · My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun · William Shakespeare · pm Shake-speares Sonnets by William Shakespeare, Thomas Thorpe, 1609, as “Sonnet 130” 638 · Ozymandias · Percy Bysshe Shelley · pm The Examiner January 11 1818 638 · The Emperor of Ice-Cream · Wallace Stevens · pm Harmonium by Wallace Stevens, Knopf, 1923 639 · Ulysses · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · pm Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Edward Moxon, 1842 641 · Fern Hill · Dylan Thomas · pm Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art October 1945 642 · Ex-Basketball Player · John Updike · pm The New Yorker July 6 1957 643 · Sea Grapes · Derek Walcott · pm Sea Grapes by Derek Walcott, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976 644 · I Hear America Singing · Walt Whitman · pm Leaves of Grass (Third Edition) by Walt Whitman, self-published, 1860 645 · O Captain! My Captain! · Walt Whitman · pm Sequel to Drum-Taps by Walt Whitman, Washington, 1865 646 · The Writer · Richard Wilbur · pm The Mind-Reader by Richard Wilbur, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1976 647 · Spring and All · William Carlos Williams · pm Spring and All by William Carlos Williams, Contact Publishing Co., 1923, as “I” 648 · Queen-Anne’s-Lace · William Carlos Williams · pm Sour Grapes by William Carlos Williams, The Four Seas Company, 1921 648 · Composed Upon Westminster Bridge · William Wordsworth · pm Poems, In Two Volumes by William Wordsworth, Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807 649 · Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio · James Wright · pm The Branch Will Not Break by James Wright, Wesleyan University Press, 1963 649 · In This Strange Labyrinth · Mary Sidney Wroth · pm from The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania, John Marriott & John Grismand, 1621 650 · Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop · William Butler Yeats · pm Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems by W. B. Yeats, The Cuala Press, 1932 650 · Sailing to Byzantium · William Butler Yeats · pm The Tower by W. B. Yeats, Macmillan and Co., 1928 651 · When You Are Old · William Butler Yeats · pm The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics by William Butler Yeats, T. Fisher Unwin, 1892 653 · Drama 654 · Talking with David Ives: “Comedy Is Just Tragedy Without the Sentimentality” · Dana Gioia · iv Backpack Literature: Third Edition ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2010 [Ref. David Ives] 657 · Chapter 23: Reading a Play 659 · Trifles · Susan Glaspell · pl Players Press, 1916 679 · Chapter 24: Modes of Drama: Tragedy and Comedy 682 · Doctor Faustus · Christopher Marlowe; edited by Sylvan Barnet · ex from The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Thomas Bushnell, 1604 691 · Sure Thing · David Ives · pl All in the Timing by David Ives, Dramatists Play Service, 1994 704 · Chapter 25: The Theater of Sophocles 711 · Oedipus the King · Sophocles; translated by Dudley Fitts & Robert Fitzgerald · pl The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles, tr. Dudley Fitts & Robert Fitzgerald, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1949 756 · Chapter 26: The Theater of Shakespeare 762 · Othello, the Moor of Venice · William Shakespeare · pl Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies by William Shakespeare, Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623 879 · Chapter 27: The Modern Theater 880 · A Doll’s House · Henrik Ibsen; edited by Viktoria Michelsen; translated by R. Farquharson Sharp · pl J.M. Dent, 1910 translated from the Norwegian (“Et Dukkehjem”, 1879). 941 · El Santo Americano · Edward Bok Lee · pl Ten-Minute Plays from the Guthrie Theater: Volume 1, Playscripts, Inc., 2003 947 · Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 · Anna Deavere Smith · ex Anchor Press, March 1994 961 · Chapter 28: Plays for Further Reading 961 · Beauty · Jane Martin · pl Talking With by Jane Martin, Samuel French, Inc., 1982 966 · Andre’s Mother · Terrence McNally · pl André’s Mother and Other Short Plays by Terrence McNally, Dramatists Play Service, 1995 969 · The Glass Menagerie · Tennessee Williams · pl Random House, 1945 1022 · Fences · August Wilson · pl Plume, June 1986 1081 · Writing 1083 · Chapter 29: Writing About Literature 1084 · Nothing Gold Can Stay · Robert Frost · pm The Yale Review October 1923 1137 · Chapter 30: Writing a Research Paper 1163 · Credits · [uncredited] · ms 1173 · Index of Major Themes · [uncredited] · ix 1179 · Index of Authors and Titles · [uncredited] · ix

Backpack Literature: Fifth Edition ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia (Pearson, 2016, 978-0-321-96812-8, xxxvii+1191pp, tp, an)     Subtitled “An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing”, a massive anthology of stories and poems whose primary aim is “to introduce college students to the appreciation and experience of literature in its major forms”. The book contains lengthy articles and surrounding material (not indexed) to frame the pieces included. xxxi · Preface · X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia · pr xxxvii · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg 1 · Fiction 2 · Talking with Amy Tan: “Life Is Larger Than We Think” · Dana Gioia · iv Backpack Literature: Third Edition ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2010 [Ref. Amy Tan] 5 · Chapter 1: Reading a Story 7 · Death Has an Appointment in Samarra · [uncredited] · vi (r); a Sufi Legend. 8 · The North Wind and the Sun · Aesop; translated by V. S. Vernon Jones · vi Aesop’s Fables by Aesop, tr. Vernon Jones, William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912 9 · The Tortoise and the Geese · Bidpai; translated by Maude Barrows Dutton · vi The Tortoise and the Geese by Bidpai, tr. Maude Barrows Dutton, Houghton Mifflin, 1908 11 · Independence · Chuang Tzu; translated by Herbert Giles · vi Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer by Chuang Tzu, tr. Herbert Giles, Bernard Quaritch, 1889 12 · Godfather Death · Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm; translated by Dana Gioia · ss Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 translated from the German. 19 · A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 22 1961 28 · Chapter 2: Point of View 32 · A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930 40 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843 45 · Why I Live at the P.O. · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1941 56 · Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · vi The New Yorker June 26 1978 61 · Chapter 3: Character 64 · The Jilting of Granny Weatherall · Katherine Anne Porter · ss Transition February 1929 72 · Bullet in the Brain · Tobias Wolff · ss The New Yorker September 25 1995 77 · Everyday Use · Alice Walker · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1973 85 · Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981 101 · Chapter 4: Setting 104 · The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin, Louisiana State University, 1969 109 · To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 1902 123 · The Gospel According to Mark · Jorge Luis Borges; translated by Andrew Hurley · ss Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, tr. Andrew Hurley, Viking, 1998 translated from the Spanish (“El Evangelio según Marcos”, El informe de Brodie, 1970). 128 · A Pair of Tickets · Amy Tan · ex from The Joy Luck Club, Putnam, 1989 147 · Chapter 5: Tone and Style 151 · A Clean, Well-Lighted Place · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1933 155 · Barn Burning · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1939 172 · The Necklace · Guy de Maupassant; translated by John Siscoe · ss translated from the French (“La Parure”, Le Gaulois, Feb 17, 1884). 179 · The Story of an Hour · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue December 6 1894, as “The Dream of an Hour” 184 · Chapter 6: Theme 187 · Dead Men’s Path · Chinua Achebe · ss Girls at War and Other Stories by Chinua Achebe, Pearson Education, 1972 189 · The House on Mango Street · Sandra Cisneros · ex Arte Publico Press, 1984 192 · The Parable of the Prodigal Son · [uncredited] · ss King James Version, Robert Barker, 1611 194 · Harrison Bergeron · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1961 203 · Chapter 7: Symbol 206 · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937 215 · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892 229 · The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss New Dimensions 3 ed. Robert Silverberg, SFBC, 1973 235 · The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948 246 · Chapter 8: Stories for Further Reading 246 · This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona · Sherman Alexie · ss Esquire June 1993 256 · Happy Endings · Margaret Atwood · ss The Humanist September/October 1987 260 · Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion” 271 · The Gift of the Magi · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World December 10 1905, as “Gifts of the Magi” 276 · Sweat · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Fire!! November 1926 287 · Saboteur · Ha Jin · ss The Antioch Review Autumn 1996 296 · Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Grant Richards, 1914 301 · Before the Law · Franz Kafka; translated by John Siscoe · ss Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 translated from the German (“Vor dem Gesetz”, Selbstwehr, September 7, 1915). 303 · Miss Brill · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Athenaeum November 26 1920 307 · Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Epoch Fall 1966 321 · The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986 336 · A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953 349 · Tell Them Not to Kill Me! · Juan Rulfo; translated by George D. Schade · ss The Burning Plain and Other Stories by Juan Rolfo, tr. George D. Schade, University of Texas Press, 1967 translated from the Spanish (“¡Diles que no me maten!”, El Llano en llamas, 1953). 355 · A Haunted House · Virginia Woolf · vi Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, 1921 359 · Poetry 360 · Talking with Kay Ryan: “Language That Lasts” · Dana Gioia · iv Backpack Literature: Third Edition ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2010 [Ref. Kay Ryan] 362 · To the Muse · X. J. Kennedy · pm Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 363 · Chapter 9: Reading a Poem 365 · The Lake Isle of Innisfree · William Butler Yeats · pm The National Observer December 13 1890 368 · Those Winter Sundays · Robert Hayden · pm A Ballad of Remembrance by Robert Hayden, Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962 369 · Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers · Adrienne Rich · pm A Change of World by Adrienne Rich, Yale University Press, 1951 370 · Sir Patrick Spence · [uncredited] · pm (r) 371 · “Out, Out—” · Robert Frost · pm McClure’s Magazine July 1916 373 · My Last Duchess · Robert Browning · pm Dramatic Lyrics by Robert Browning, Edward Moxon, 1842, as “Italy” 376 · Ask Me · William Stafford · pm The New Yorker July 7 1975 379 · Chapter 10: Listening to a Voice 380 · My Papa’s Waltz · Theodore Roethke · pm Harper’s Bazaar February 1942 381 · The Wayfarer · Stephen Crane · pm War Is Kind and Other Lines by Stephen Crane, Frederick A. Stokes, 1899 382 · The Author to Her Book · Anne Bradstreet · pm Several Poems by Anne Bradstreet, John Foster, 1678 382 · To a Locomotive in Winter · Walt Whitman · pm Two Rivulets by Walt Whitman, self-published, 1876 383 · I Like to See It Lap the Miles · Emily Dickinson · pm Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series by Emily Dickinson, Roberts Brothers, 1891, as “The Railway Train” 384 · For My Daughter · Weldon Kees · pm The Kenyon Review Spring 1940 385 · White Lies · Natasha Trethewey · pm Domestic Work by Natasha Trethewey, Graywolf Press, 2000 387 · Luke Havergal · Edwin Arlington Robinson · pm Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson, self-published, 1897 388 · Dog Haiku · [uncredited] · pm (r) 389 · Theme for English B · Langston Hughes · pm Montage of a Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes, Henry Holt and Company, 1951 390 · The Farmer’s Bride · Charlotte Mew · pm The Nation February 3 1912 391 · The Red Wheelbarrow · William Carlos Williams · pm Spring and All by William Carlos Williams, Contact Publishing Co., 1923, as “XXII” 392 · Oh No · Robert Creeley · pm For Love: Poems 1950–1960 by Robert Creeley, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962 394 · The Unknown Citizen · W. H. Auden · pm The Listener August 3 1939 395 · Rite of Passage · Sharon Olds · pm The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds, Alfred A. Knopf, 1984 396 · Second Fig · Edna St. Vincent Millay · pm A Few Figs from Thistles by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Frank Shay, 1920 396 · The Workbox · Thomas Hardy · pm Satires of Circumstances by Thomas Hardy, Macmillan and Co., 1914 397 · Deliberate · Amy Uyematsu · pm 30 Miles from J-Town by Amy Uyematsu, Story Line Press, 1992 398 · To Lucasta · Richard Lovelace · pm Lucasta by Richard Lovelace, 1649 399 · Dulce et Decorum Est · Wilfred Owen · pm Poems by Wilfred Owen, Chatto and Windus, 1920 402 · Chapter 11: Words 403 · This Is Just to Say · William Carlos Williams · pm Collected Poems, 1921-1931 by William Carlos Williams, The Objectivist Press, 1934 404 · Cargoes · John Masefield · pm Look and Learn #19, May 26 1962 405 · Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God, for You · John Donne · pm Poems by John Donne, Henry Seyle, 1633 406 · Aftermath · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · pm Aftermath by H. W. Longfellow, James R. Osgood & Co., 1873 407 · That Will to Divest · Kay Ryan · pm The Dark Horse Journal #7, Winter 1998/1999 408 · Friend, on This Scaffold Thomas More Lies Dead · J. V. Cunningham · pm The Exclusions of a Rhyme by J. V. Cunningham, Alan Swallow, 1960 408 · Bread · Samuel Menashe · pm Chimera Books, 1981 409 · Grass · Carl Sandburg · pm Cornhuskers by Carl Sandburg, Henry Holt, 1918 411 · Upon Julia’s Clothes · Robert Herrick · pm Hesperides by Robert Herrick, 1648 412 · The Ruined Maid · Thomas Hardy · pm Poems of the Past and Present by Thomas Hardy, Harper & Bros., 1901 413 · Lonely Hearts · Wendy Cope · pm The Times Literary Supplement 1979 414 · Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town · e. e. cummings · pm 50 Poems by e. e. cummings, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940 415 · Carnation Milk · [uncredited] · pm (r) 415 · English con Salsa · Gina Valdés · pm Cool Salsa ed. Lori M. Carlson, Henry Holt, 1994 416 · My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold · William Wordsworth · pm Poems, In Two Volumes by William Wordsworth, Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807 416 · Mutability · William Wordsworth · pm Ecclesiastical Sonnets by William Wordsworth, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822 417 · Jabberwocky · Lewis Carroll · pm from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Macmillan, December 1871 421 · Chapter 12: Saying and Suggesting 422 · London · William Blake · pm Songs of Experience by William Blake, 1794 424 · Disillusionment of Ten o’Clock · Wallace Stevens · pm Rogue March 15 1915 425 · Fire and Ice · Robert Frost · pm Harper’s Magazine December 1920 425 · The Minefield · Diane Thiel · pm The Best American Poetry 1999 ed. Robert Bly, Scribner, 1999 426 · Bilingual/Bilingüe · Rhina P. Espaillat · pm Where Horizons Go by Rhina P. Espaillat, New Odyssey Press, 1998 427 · Tears, Idle Tears · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · pm from “The Princess”, Edward Moxon, 1847 427 · Love Calls Us to the Things of This World · Richard Wilbur · pm Things of This World by Richard Wilbur, Harcourt, Brace, 1956 432 · Chapter 13: Imagery 432 · In a Station of the Metro · Ezra Pound · pm Poetry April 1913 432 · The Piercing Chill I Feel · Taniguchi Buson · pm An Introduction to Haiku ed. Harold G. Henderson, Anchor Books, 1958 translated from the Japanese. 433 · The Winter Evening Settles Down · T. S. Eliot · pm Prufrock and Other Observations by T. S. Eliot, The Egoist, 1917, as “Prelude” 434 · Root Cellar · Theodore Roethke · pm The Lost Son and Other Poems by Theodore Roethke, Doubleday, 1948 434 · The Fish · Elizabeth Bishop · pm North and South by Elizabeth Bishop, Houghton Mifflin, 1946 436 · A Route of Evanescence · Emily Dickinson · pm The Atlantic Monthly October 1891 437 · Reapers · Jean Toomer · pm Cane by Jean Toomer, Boni & Liveright, 1923 437 · Pied Beauty · Gerard Manley Hopkins · pm Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Humphrey Milford, 1918 438 · The Falling Flower · Arakida Moritake; translated by Babette Deutsch · pm Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 translated from the Japanese. 439 · Heat-Lightning Streak · Matsuo Basho; translated by X. J. Kennedy · pm Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 translated from the Japanese. 439 · In the Old Stone Pool · Matsuo Basho; translated by X. J. Kennedy · pm Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 translated from the Japanese. 439 · On the One-Ton Temple Bell · Taniguchi Buson; translated by X. J. Kennedy · pm Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 translated from the Japanese. 439 · Moonrise on Mudflats · Taniguchi Buson; translated by Michael Sullivan · pm Backpack Literature: Third Edition ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2010 translated from the Japanese. 439 · Only One Guy · Kobayashi Issa; translated by Cid Corman · pm Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 translated from the Japanese. 439 · Cricket · Kobayashi Issa; translated by Robert Bly · pm Ten Poems by Kobayashi Issa, tr. Robert Bly, self-published, 1969 translated from the Japanese. 440 · Rain Shower from Mountain · Suiko Matsushita; translated by Violet Kazue de Cristoforo · pm May Sky: There Is Always Tomorrow ed. & tr. Violet Kazue de Cristoforo, Sun & Moon Press, 1997 translated from the Japanese. 440 · Cosmos in Bloom · Suiko Matsushita; translated by Violet Kazue de Cristoforo · pm May Sky: There Is Always Tomorrow ed. & tr. Violet Kazue de Cristoforo, Sun & Moon Press, 1997 translated from the Japanese. 440 · Even the Croaking of Frogs · Hakuro Wada; translated by Violet Kazue de Cristoforo · pm May Sky: There Is Always Tomorrow ed. & tr. Violet Kazue de Cristoforo, Sun & Moon Press, 1997 translated from the Japanese. 440 · The War, This Year · Neiji Ozawa; translated by Violet Kazue de Cristoforo · pm May Sky: There Is Always Tomorrow ed. & tr. Violet Kazue de Cristoforo, Sun & Moon Press, 1997 translated from the Japanese. 440 · The Old Neighborhood · Nick Virgilio · pm Frogpond v38 #1, 2015 440 · Visitor’s Room · Lee Gurga · pm Modern Haiku Summer 1998 441 · Born Again · Jennifer Brutschy · pm Backpack Literature: Third Edition ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2010 441 · Learning to Shave · Adelle Foley · pm Along the Bloodline by Adelle Foley, Pantograph Press, 2003 441 · Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art · John Keats · pm The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats by John Keats, Reeves & Turner, 1883 441 · Lipstick · Tami Haaland · pm Breath in Every Room by Tami Haaland, Lamar University Literary Press, 2014 442 · El Hombre · William Carlos Williams · pm Al Que Quiere! by William Carlos Williams, The Four Seas Company, 1917 442 · Drinking Alone by Moonlight · Li Po; translated by Arthur Waley · pm More Translations from the Chinese ed. & tr. Arthur Waley, Allen & Unwin, 1919 translated from the Chinese. 443 · Not Waving but Drowning · Stevie Smith · pm Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith, Andre Deutsch, 1957 443 · Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter · Robert Bly · pm Silence in the Snowy Fields by Robert Bly, Wesleyan University Press, 1962 447 · Chapter 14: Figures of Speech 447 · The Eagle · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · pm Poems (Seventh Edition) by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Edward Moxon, 1851 448 · Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? · William Shakespeare · pm Shake-speares Sonnets by William Shakespeare, Thomas Thorpe, 1609, as “Sonnet 18” 448 · Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? · Howard Moss · pm Minor Monuments by Howard Moss, The Ecco Press, 1986 451 · My Life Had Stood, a Loaded Gun · Emily Dickinson · pm The London Mercury February 1929 452 · Flower in the Crannied Wall · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · pm The Holy Grail and Other Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Strahan and Co., 1869 452 · To See a World in a Grain of Sand · William Blake · pm from “Auguries of Innocence”, Life of William Blake by Alexander Gilchrist, Macmillan and Co., 1863 452 · Metaphors · Sylvia Plath · pm The Colossus and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath, William Heinemann, 1960 453 · Simile · N. Scott Momaday · pm Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 453 · A Martian Sends a Postcard Home · Craig Raine · pm A Martian Sends a Postcard Home by Craig Raine, Oxford University Press, 1979 456 · The Wind · James Stephens · pm The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin by James Stephens, Macmillan, 1915, as “Stephen’s Green” 457 · You Fit Into Me · Margaret Atwood · pm Power Politics by Margaret Atwood, House of Anansi Press, 1971 458 · Epitaph · Timothy Steele · pm Counter/Measures #2, 1973 458 · Money · Dana Gioia · pm Gods of Winter by Dana Gioia, Graywolf Press, 1991 459 · Fog · Carl Sandburg · pm Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg, Henry Holt, 1916 459 · The Secret Sits · Robert Frost · pm A Further Range by Robert Frost, Henry Holt, 1936 459 · Turtle · Kay Ryan · pm Flamingo Watching by Kay Ryan, Copper Beech Press, 1994 460 · Love and Friendship · Emily Brontë · pm Poems by Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell, Aylott and Jones, 1846, as by Ellis Bell 460 · Ode on a Grecian Urn · John Keats · pm Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems by John Keats, Taylor and Hessey, 1820 464 · Chapter 15: Sound 466 · Who Goes with Fergus? · William Butler Yeats · pm from “The Countess Cathleen”, The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics by William Butler Yeats, T. Fisher Unwin, 1892 467 · Ulalume · Edgar Allan Poe · ex American Whig Review December 1847 467 · A Slumber Did My Spirit Steal · William Wordsworth · pm Lyrical Ballads (Second Edition) by William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1800 468 · The Watch · Frances Cornford · pm Spring Morning by Frances Cornford, Poetry Bookshop, 1915 468 · The Splendor Falls on Castle Walls · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · pm from “The Princess (Third Edition)”, Edward Moxon, 1850 471 · The Hippopotamus · Hilaire Belloc · pm Cautionary Verses by Hilaire Belloc, Duckworth, 1939 472 · Leda and the Swan · William Butler Yeats · pm To-Morrow August 1924 472 · God’s Grandeur · Gerard Manley Hopkins · pm Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Oxford University Press, 1918 473 · Desert Places · Robert Frost · pm The American Mercury April 1934 475 · In Memoriam John Coltrane · Michael Stillman · pm An Introduction to Poetry ed. X. J. Kennedy, Little, Brown & Co., 1966 478 · Chapter 16: Rhythm 482 · We Real Cool · Gwendolyn Brooks · pm Poetry September 1959 483 · Break, Break, Break · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · pm Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Edward Moxon, 1842 483 · Résumé · Dorothy Parker · pm New York World August 16 1925 488 · Counting-Out Rhyme · Edna St. Vincent Millay · pm The Buck in the Snow & Other Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Harper & Brothers, 1928 488 · When I Was One-and-Twenty · A. E. Housman · pm McClure’s Magazine May 1906 489 · Beat! Beat! Drums! · Walt Whitman · pm Harper’s Weekly September 28 1861 493 · Chapter 17: Closed Form 496 · Days of Wine and Roses · Ernest Dowson · pm Verses by Ernest Dowson, Leonard Smithers, 1896, as “Vitae Summa Brevis” 496 · Song (“Go and catch a falling star”) · John Donne · pm Poems by John Donne, Henry Seyle, 1633 497 · Bonny Barbara Allan · [uncredited] · pm (r) 500 · Ballad of Birmingham · Dudley Randall · pm Broadside Press, 1965 501 · Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds · William Shakespeare · pm Shake-speares Sonnets by William Shakespeare, Thomas Thorpe, 1609, as “Sonnet 116” 502 · “What lips my lips have kissed, and when, and why…” · Edna St. Vincent Millay · pm Renascence 1917 503 · Acquainted with the Night · Robert Frost · pm The Virginia Quarterly Review October 1928 504 · Shakespearean Sonnet · R. S. Gwynn · pm The Drive-In by R. S. Gwynn, University of Missouri Press, 1986 504 · The Facebook Sonnet · Sherman Alexie · pm The New Yorker May 16 2011 505 · Of Treason · Sir John Harrington · pm Epigrams by Sir John Harrington, 1615 505 · Two Somewhat Different Epigrams · Langston Hughes · pm New Poems by American Poets ed. Rolfe Humphries, Ballantine, 1953 506 · Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night · Dylan Thomas · pm Botteghe Oscure #8, 1951 507 · We Wear the Mask · Paul Laurence Dunbar · pm Majors and Minors by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Hadley & Hadley, 1895 507 · Sestina · Elizabeth Bishop · pm The New Yorker September 15 1956 512 · Chapter 18: Open Form 512 · Ancient Stairway · Denise Levertov · pm This Great Unknowing by Denise Levertov, New Directions, 1999 515 · Buffalo Bill’s · e. e. cummings · pm The Dial January 1920 516 · The Dance · William Carlos Williams · pm Wedge by William Carlos Williams, The Cummington Press, 1944 517 · The Heart · Stephen Crane · pm The Black Riders by Stephen Crane, Copeland and Day, 1895, as “In the Desert” 517 · Cavalry Crossing a Ford · Walt Whitman · pm Drum-Taps by Walt Whitman, Peter Eckler, 1865 518 · Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird · Wallace Stevens · pm Others: An Anthology of the New Verse ed. Alfred Kreymborg, Alfred A. Knopf, 1917 521 · The Magic Study of Happiness · Charles Simic · pp Dime-Store Alchemy by Charles Simic, The Ecco Press, 1992 522 · In Just— · e. e. cummings · pm The Dial May 1920 522 · I Shall Paint My Nails Red · Carole Satyamurti · pm Changing the Subject by Carole Satyamurti, Oxford University Press, 1990 523 · I, Too · Langston Hughes · pm Survey Graphic March 1925 526 · Chapter 19: Symbol 527 · The Boston Evening Transcript · T. S. Eliot · pm Poetry October 1915 528 · The Lightning Is a Yellow Fork · Emily Dickinson · pm Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series by Emily Dickinson, Roberts Brothers, 1891 530 · Neutral Tones · Thomas Hardy · pm Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy, Harper, 1898 530 · Facing It · Yusef Komunyakaa · pm Dien Cai Dau by Yusef Komunyakaa, Wesleyan University Press, 1988 532 · The Parable of the Good Seed · [uncredited] · pm King James Version, Robert Barker, 1611 532 · Redemption · George Herbert · pm The Temple by George Herbert, Thom. Buck and Roger Daniel, 1633 533 · Proverbios y Cantares (XXIX) · Antonio Machado · pm Campos de Castilla by Antonio Machado, 1912; in Spanish. 533 · Traveler · Antonio Machado; translated by Michael Ortiz · pm translated from the Spanish (“Proverbios y Cantares (XXIX)”, Campos de Castilla, 1912). 534 · The Road Not Taken · Robert Frost · pm The Atlantic Monthly August 1915 534 · Up-Hill · Christina Rossetti · pm Macmillan’s Magazine February 1861 535 · Wild Geese · Mary Oliver · pm Dream Work by Mary Oliver, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986 536 · Popcorn-Can Cover · Lorine Niedecker · pm Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. 1965 536 · Anecdote of the Jar · Wallace Stevens · pm Poetry October 1919 539 · Chapter 20: Myth and Narrative 541 · Nothing Gold Can Stay · Robert Frost · pm The Yale Review October 1923 541 · The World Is Too Much with Us · William Wordsworth · pm Poems, In Two Volumes by William Wordsworth, Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807 542 · Helen · H. D. (by Hilda Doolittle) · pm The Nation and Athenaeum January 27 1923 543 · Medusa · Louise Bogan · pm The New Republic 1921 544 · First Love: A Quiz · A. E. Stallings · pm Hapax by A. E. Stallings, Northwestern University Press, 2006 546 · The Second Coming · William Butler Yeats · pm The Dial November 1920 547 · Memento Mori in Middle School · Diane Thiel · pm Echolocations by Diane Thiel, Story Line Press, 2000 549 · Lady Lazarus · Sylvia Plath · pm Ariel by Sylvia Plath, Faber and Faber, 1965 553 · Cinderella · Anne Sexton · pm Transformations by Anne Sexton, Houghton Mifflin, 1971 558 · Chapter 21: What Is Poetry? 559 · Chapter 22: Poems for Further Reading 559 · Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Tortilla · Aaron Abeyta · pm Colcha by Aaron A. Abeyta, University Press of Colorado, 2001 562 · First Poem for You · Kim Addonizio · pp The Philosopher’s Club by Kim Addonizio, BOA Editions, 1993 562 · The Powwow at the End of the World · Sherman Alexie · pm The Summer of Black Widows by Sherman Alexie, Hanging Loose Press, 1996 563 · Last Words of the Prophet · [uncredited] · pm (r); a Navajo Chant. 563 · Dover Beach · Matthew Arnold · pm New Poems by Matthew Arnold, 1867 564 · Musée des Beaux Arts · W. H. Auden · pm New Writing Spring 1939, as “Palais des beaux arts” 566 · One Art · Elizabeth Bishop · pm The New Yorker April 26 1976 566 · The Tyger · William Blake · pm Songs of Experience by William Blake, 1794 568 · The Mother · Gwendolyn Brooks · pm A Street in Bronzeville by Gwendolyn Brooks, Harper & Brothers, 1945 569 · How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways · Elizabeth Barrett Browning · pm Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Chapman & Hall, 1850, as “Sonnet (“How do I love thee?…”)” 569 · Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister · Robert Browning · pm Dramatic Lyrics by Robert Browning, Edward Moxon, 1842, as “Cloister (Spanish)” 570 · Dostoevsky · Charles Bukowski · pm Bone Palace Ballet by Charles Bukowski, Black Sparrow Press, 1997 572 · Quinceañera · Judith Ortiz Cofer · pm Terms of Survival by Judith Ortiz Cofer, Arte Público Press, 1987 573 · Kubla Khan · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · pm Christabel/Kubla Khan/The Pains of Sleep by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Murray, 1816 575 · Care and Feeding · Billy Collins · pm Five Points Spring 2003 576 · Wild Nights—Wild Nights! · Emily Dickinson · pm Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series by Emily Dickinson, Roberts Brothers, 1891 576 · I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain · Emily Dickinson · pm Poems by Emily Dickinson: Third Series by Emily Dickinson, Roberts Brothers, 1896 577 · Because I Could Not Stop for Death · Emily Dickinson · pm Poems by Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson, Roberts Brothers, 1890 578 · Death Be Not Proud · John Donne · pm Poems by John Donne, Henry Seyle, 1633, as “Sonnet X” 578 · The Flea · John Donne · pm Poems by John Donne, Henry Seyle, 1633 579 · The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock · T. S. Eliot · pm Poetry June 1915 583 · Mending Wall · Robert Frost · pm North of Boston by Robert Frost, David Nutt, 1914 585 · Birches · Robert Frost · pm The Atlantic Monthly August 1915 586 · Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening · Robert Frost · pm New Hampshire by Robert Frost, Henry Holt, 1923 587 · A Supermarket in California · Allen Ginsberg · pm Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg, City Lights Books, 1956 588 · The Convergence of the Twain · Thomas Hardy · pm Souvenir Programme of the Dramatic and Operatic Matinée in Aid of the “Titanic” Disaster Fund, Royal Opera House, 1912 589 · Digging · Seamus Heaney · pm Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney, Faber & Faber, 1966 590 · Easter Wings · George Herbert · pm The Temple by George Herbert, Thom. Buck and Roger Daniel, 1633 591 · To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time · Robert Herrick · pm Hesperides by Robert Herrick, 1648 591 · Spring and Fall · Gerard Manley Hopkins · pm Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Oxford University Press, 1918 592 · The Windhover · Gerard Manley Hopkins · pm Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Oxford University Press, 1918 592 · Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now · A. E. Housman · pm A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman, A.E. Housman, 1896 593 · To an Athlete Dying Young · A. E. Housman · pm A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman, A.E. Housman, 1896 594 · The Negro Speaks of Rivers · Langston Hughes · pm The Crisis June 1921 594 · Harlem · Langston Hughes · pm Montage of a Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes, Henry Holt and Company, 1951 595 · The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner · Randall Jarrell · pm Little Friend, Little Friend by Randall Jarrell, Dial Press, 1945 595 · Fire on the Hills · Robinson Jeffers · pm Thurso’s Landing and Other Poems by Robinson Jeffers, Liveright, Inc., 1932 596 · Missed Time · Ha Jin · pm Poetry July 2000 596 · On My First Son · Ben Jonson · pm The Workes of Beniamin Ionson by Ben Jonson, William Stansby, 1616 596 · On the Death of Friends in Childhood · Donald Justice · pm The Summer Anniversaries by Donald Justice, Wesleyan University Press, 1960 597 · Ode to a Nightingale · John Keats · pm Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems by John Keats, Taylor and Hessey, 1820 599 · Home Is So Sad · Philip Larkin · pm The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin, Faber and Faber, 1964 600 · Piano · D. H. Lawrence · pm Love Poems and Others by D. H. Lawrence, Duckworth and Co., 1913 600 · Learning to Love America · Shirley Geok-lin Lim · pm What the Fortune Teller Didn’t Say by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, West End Press, 1998 601 · To His Coy Mistress · Andrew Marvell · pm Miscellaneous poems by Andrew Marvell, Esq. by Andrew Marvell, Robert Boulter, 1681 602 · The Harlem Dancer · Claude McKay · pm Seven Arts October 1917, as by Eli Edwards 603 · Recuerdo · Edna St. Vincent Millay · pm Poetry May 1919 604 · When I Consider How My Light Is Spent · John Milton · pm Poems of Mr. John Milton, 2nd edn. by John Milton, Thomas Dring, 1673 604 · We Are Many · Pablo Neruda; translated by Alastair Reid · pm We Are Many by Pablo Neruda, tr. Alastair Reid, Cape Goliard Press, 1967 translated from the Spanish (“Muchos somos”, Estravagario, 1958). 605 · Anthem for Doomed Youth · Wilfred Owen · pm Poems by Wilfred Owen, Chatto and Windus, 1920 606 · Daddy · Sylvia Plath · pm Ariel by Sylvia Plath, Faber and Faber, 1965 609 · Annabel Lee · Edgar Allan Poe · pm Tribune October 9 1849 610 · The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter · Ezra Pound · pm Cathay by Ezra Pound, Elkin Mathews, 1915 loosely translated from a poem by the Chinese poet Li Bai, called “Chánggān Xíng”. 611 · Naming of Parts · Henry Reed · pm The New Statesman and Nation August 1942 612 · Miniver Cheevy · Edwin Arlington Robinson · pm Scribner’s Magazine March 1907 613 · Song (“When I am dead, my dearest”) · Christina Rossetti · pm The Goblin Market and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti, 1862 613 · When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes · William Shakespeare · pm Shake-speares Sonnets by William Shakespeare, Thomas Thorpe, 1609, as “Sonnet 29” 614 · My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun · William Shakespeare · pm Shake-speares Sonnets by William Shakespeare, Thomas Thorpe, 1609, as “Sonnet 130” 614 · Ozymandias · Percy Bysshe Shelley · pm The Examiner January 11 1818 615 · The Emperor of Ice-Cream · Wallace Stevens · pm Harmonium by Wallace Stevens, Knopf, 1923 615 · Ulysses · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · pm Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Edward Moxon, 1842 617 · Fern Hill · Dylan Thomas · pm Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art October 1945 619 · When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer · Walt Whitman · pm Drum-Taps by Walt Whitman, Peter Eckler, 1865 619 · O Captain! My Captain! · Walt Whitman · pm Sequel to Drum-Taps by Walt Whitman, Washington, 1865 620 · Spring and All · William Carlos Williams · pm Spring and All by William Carlos Williams, Contact Publishing Co., 1923, as “I” 621 · Queen-Anne’s-Lace · William Carlos Williams · pm Sour Grapes by William Carlos Williams, The Four Seas Company, 1921 622 · Composed Upon Westminster Bridge · William Wordsworth · pm Poems, In Two Volumes by William Wordsworth, Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807 622 · Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio · James Wright · pm The Branch Will Not Break by James Wright, Wesleyan University Press, 1963 622 · In This Strange Labyrinth · Mary Sidney Wroth · pm from The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania, John Marriott & John Grismand, 1621 623 · He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven · William Butler Yeats · pm The Wind Among the Reeds by William Butler Yeats, Good Press, 1899, as “Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” 623 · Sailing to Byzantium · William Butler Yeats · pm The Tower by W. B. Yeats, Macmillan and Co., 1928 625 · When You Are Old · William Butler Yeats · pm The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics by William Butler Yeats, T. Fisher Unwin, 1892 627 · Drama 628 · Talking with David Ives: “Comedy Is Just Tragedy Without the Sentimentality” · Dana Gioia · iv Backpack Literature: Third Edition ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2010 [Ref. David Ives] 631 · Chapter 23: Reading a Play 633 · Trifles · Susan Glaspell · pl Players Press, 1916 654 · Chapter 24: Tragedy and Comedy 657 · Doctor Faustus · Christopher Marlowe; edited by Sylvan Barnet · ex from The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Thomas Bushnell, 1604 665 · The Importance of Being Earnest · Oscar Wilde · ex Leonard Smithers, 1899 669 · Soap Opera · David Ives · pl Lives of the Saints by David Ives, Dramatists Play Service, 2000 683 · Chapter 25: The Theater of Sophocles 690 · Oedipus the King · Sophocles; translated by David Grene · pl Sophocles I by Sophocles, tr. David Grene, University of Chicago Press, 1954 translated from the Greek. 736 · Chapter 26: The Theater of Shakespeare 742 · Othello, the Moor of Venice · William Shakespeare · pl Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies by William Shakespeare, Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623 857 · Chapter 27: The Modern Theater 858 · A Doll’s House · Henrik Ibsen; edited by Viktoria Michelsen; translated by R. Farquharson Sharp · pl J.M. Dent, 1910 translated from the Norwegian (“Et Dukkehjem”, 1879). 918 · The Glass Menagerie · Tennessee Williams · pl Random House, 1945 973 · The Cuban Swimmer · Milcha Sanchez-Scott · pl Dog Lady and The Cuban Swimmer by Milcha Sanchez-Scott, Theatre Communications Group, 1984 988 · Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 · Anna Deavere Smith · ex Anchor Press, March 1994 1001 · Chapter 28: Plays for Further Reading 1001 · The Sound of a Voice · David Henry Hwang · pl Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1984 1017 · El Santo Americano · Edward Bok Lee · pl Ten-Minute Plays from the Guthrie Theater: Volume 1, Playscripts, Inc., 2003 1023 · Pomp and Circumstance · Jane Martin · pl Ten-Minute Plays: Volume 3 from Actors Theatre of Louisville, Samuel French, 1995 1026 · Click · Brighde Mullins · pl 2000 1029 · Fences · August Wilson · pl Plume, June 1986 1087 · Writing 1089 · Chapter 29: Writing About Literature 1090 · Nothing Gold Can Stay · Robert Frost · pm The Yale Review October 1923 1143 · Chapter 30: Writing a Research Paper 1171 · Literary Credits · [uncredited] · ms 1181 · Index of Authors and Titles · [uncredited] · ix

Backpack Literature: Sixth Edition ed. X. J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia & Dan Stone (Pearson, 2020, 978-0-13-475679-0, xxxix+1253pp, tp, an)     Subtitled “An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing”, a massive anthology of stories and poems whose primary aim is “to introduce college students to the appreciation and experience of literature in its major forms”. The book contains lengthy articles and surrounding material (not indexed) to frame the pieces included. xxix · Preface · X. J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia & Dan Stone · pr xxxviii · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg 1 · Fiction 2 · Talking with Amy Tan: “Life Is Larger Than We Think” · Dana Gioia · iv Backpack Literature: Third Edition ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2010 [Ref. Amy Tan] 5 · Chapter 1: Reading a Story 6 · Death Has an Appointment in Samarra · [uncredited] · vi (r); a Sufi Legend. 7 · The North Wind and the Sun · Aesop; translated by V. S. Vernon Jones · vi Aesop’s Fables by Aesop, tr. Vernon Jones, William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912 9 · The Camel and His Friends · Bidpai; translated by Arundhati Khanwalker · vi from The Panchatantra (r) 11 · Independence · Chuang Tzu; translated by Herbert Giles · vi Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer by Chuang Tzu, tr. Herbert Giles, Bernard Quaritch, 1889 13 · Godfather Death · Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm; translated by Dana Gioia · ss Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 translated from the German. 18 · A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 22 1961 28 · Chapter 2: Point of View 32 · A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930 40 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843 45 · A Worn Path · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1941 52 · A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953 69 · Chapter 3: Character 72 · Bullet in the Brain · Tobias Wolff · ss The New Yorker September 25 1995 77 · Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Epoch Fall 1966 91 · Recitatif · Toni Morrison · ss Confirmation ed. Amiri & Amina Baraka, Morrow, 1983 107 · Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981 123 · Chapter 4: Setting 126 · The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin, Louisiana State University, 1969 131 · To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 1902 144 · The Gospel According to Mark · Jorge Luis Borges; translated by Andrew Hurley · ss Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, tr. Andrew Hurley, Viking, 1998 translated from the Spanish (“El Evangelio según Marcos”, El informe de Brodie, 1970). 149 · A Pair of Tickets · Amy Tan · ex from The Joy Luck Club, Putnam, 1989 168 · Chapter 5: Tone and Style 171 · A Clean, Well-Lighted Place · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1933 176 · Barn Burning · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1939 192 · The Gift of the Magi · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World December 10 1905, as “Gifts of the Magi” 197 · Happy Endings · Margaret Atwood · ss The Humanist September/October 1987 203 · Chapter 6: Theme 206 · The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986 220 · Barbie-Q · Sandra Cisneros · ss Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros, Random House, 1991 223 · The Parable of the Prodigal Son · [uncredited] · ss King James Version, Robert Barker, 1611 225 · Harrison Bergeron · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1961 233 · Chapter 7: Symbol 236 · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937 245 · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892 259 · The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss New Dimensions 3 ed. Robert Silverberg, SFBC, 1973 265 · The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948 276 · Chapter 8: Gallery of International Voices 277 · Dead Men’s Path · Chinua Achebe · ss Girls at War and Other Stories by Chinua Achebe, Pearson Education, 1972 280 · The Shunammite · Inés Arredondo; translated by Alberto Manguel · ss Other Fires: Stories from the Women of Latin America ed. Alberto Manguel, Clarkson N. Potter, 1986 translated from the Spanish (“La sunamita”, La sunamita, 1960. 289 · The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World · Gabriel García Márquez; translated by Gregory Rabassa · ss Playboy November 1971 translated from the Spanish. 294 · Saboteur · Ha Jin · ss The Antioch Review Autumn 1996 303 · Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · vi The New Yorker June 26 1978 305 · The Lawsuit · Naguib Mahfouz; translated by Denys Johnson-Davies · ss The Time and the Place and Other Stories by Naguib Mahfouz, tr. Denys Johnson-Davies, American University in Cairo Press, 1991 translated from the Arabic (“al-Qadiya”). 309 · Saints · Bharati Mukherjee · ss Darkness by Bharati Mukherjee, Penguin, 1985 318 · Chapter 9: Stories for Further Reading 318 · This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona · Sherman Alexie · ss Esquire June 1993 328 · Greasy Lake · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss The Paris Review #83, Spring 1982 337 · A Sound of Thunder · Ray Bradbury · ss Collier’s June 28 1952 347 · The Story of an Hour · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue December 6 1894, as “The Dream of an Hour” 350 · How to Talk to Girls at Parties · Neil Gaiman · ss Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman, Headline, 2006 360 · Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion” 372 · Sweat · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Fire!! November 1926 382 · Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Grant Richards, 1914 387 · Before the Law · Franz Kafka; translated by John Siscoe · ss Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 translated from the German (“Vor dem Gesetz”, Selbstwehr, September 7, 1915). 389 · Miss Brill · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Athenaeum November 26 1920 393 · Everyday Use · Alice Walker · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1973 401 · A Haunted House · Virginia Woolf · vi Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, 1921 405 · Poetry 406 · Talking with Kay Ryan: “Language That Lasts” · Dana Gioia · iv Backpack Literature: Third Edition ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2010 [Ref. Kay Ryan] 408 · To the Muse · X. J. Kennedy · pm Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 409 · Chapter 10: Reading a Poem 411 · The Lake Isle of Innisfree · William Butler Yeats · pm The National Observer December 13 1890 414 · Those Winter Sundays · Robert Hayden · pm A Ballad of Remembrance by Robert Hayden, Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962 414 · Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers · Adrienne Rich · pm A Change of World by Adrienne Rich, Yale University Press, 1951 415 · Sir Patrick Spence · [uncredited] · pm (r) 417 · “Out, Out—” · Robert Frost · pm McClure’s Magazine July 1916 419 · My Last Duchess · Robert Browning · pm Dramatic Lyrics by Robert Browning, Edward Moxon, 1842, as “Italy” 422 · Ask Me · William Stafford · pm The New Yorker July 7 1975 425 · Chapter 11: Listening to a Voice 426 · My Papa’s Waltz · Theodore Roethke · pm Harper’s Bazaar February 1942 427 · The Wayfarer · Stephen Crane · pm War Is Kind and Other Lines by Stephen Crane, Frederick A. Stokes, 1899 427 · Bilingual/Bilingüe · Rhina P. Espaillat · pm Where Horizons Go by Rhina P. Espaillat, New Odyssey Press, 1998 428 · Alcohol · Franz Wright · pm Ill Lit by Franz Wright, Oberlin College Press, 1998 429 · For My Daughter · Weldon Kees · pm The Kenyon Review Spring 1940 430 · White Lies · Natasha Trethewey · pm Domestic Work by Natasha Trethewey, Graywolf Press, 2000 432 · Luke Havergal · Edwin Arlington Robinson · pm Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson, self-published, 1897 433 · Dog Haiku · [uncredited] · pm (r) 434 · Theme for English B · Langston Hughes · pm Montage of a Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes, Henry Holt and Company, 1951 435 · Rainfall · Karen An-hwei Lee · pp 435 · The Red Wheelbarrow · William Carlos Williams · pm Spring and All by William Carlos Williams, Contact Publishing Co., 1923, as “XXII” 436 · Oh No · Robert Creeley · pm For Love: Poems 1950–1960 by Robert Creeley, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962 437 · The Unknown Citizen · W. H. Auden · pm The Listener August 3 1939 439 · Rite of Passage · Sharon Olds · pm The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds, Alfred A. Knopf, 1984 439 · Second Fig · Edna St. Vincent Millay · pm A Few Figs from Thistles by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Frank Shay, 1920 440 · The Workbox · Thomas Hardy · pm Satires of Circumstances by Thomas Hardy, Macmillan and Co., 1914 441 · The Chimney Sweeper (“When my mother died…”) · William Blake · pm Songs of Innocence by William Blake, 1789 442 · To Lucasta · Richard Lovelace · pm Lucasta by Richard Lovelace, 1649 442 · Dulce et Decorum Est · Wilfred Owen · pm Poems by Wilfred Owen, Chatto and Windus, 1920 446 · Chapter 12: Words 447 · This Is Just to Say · William Carlos Williams · pm Collected Poems, 1921-1931 by William Carlos Williams, The Objectivist Press, 1934 448 · Cargoes · John Masefield · pm Look and Learn #19, May 26 1962 449 · Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God, for You · John Donne · pm Poems by John Donne, Henry Seyle, 1633 450 · Aftermath · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · pm Aftermath by H. W. Longfellow, James R. Osgood & Co., 1873 452 · Friend, on This Scaffold Thomas More Lies Dead · J. V. Cunningham · pm The Exclusions of a Rhyme by J. V. Cunningham, Alan Swallow, 1960 452 · Bread · Samuel Menashe · pm Chimera Books, 1981 452 · Grass · Carl Sandburg · pm Cornhuskers by Carl Sandburg, Henry Holt, 1918 454 · Upon Julia’s Clothes · Robert Herrick · pm Hesperides by Robert Herrick, 1648 455 · Blandeur · Kay Ryan · pm Say Uncle by Kay Ryan, Grove Press, 2000 456 · The Ruined Maid · Thomas Hardy · pm Poems of the Past and Present by Thomas Hardy, Harper & Bros., 1901 457 · What Bee Did · Julie Larios · pm The Courtland Review #31, 2005 457 · Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town · e. e. cummings · pm 50 Poems by e. e. cummings, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940 458 · Adam · Sarah Cortez · pm 2016 460 · Carnation Milk · [uncredited] · pm (r) 460 · English con Salsa · Gina Valdés · pm Cool Salsa ed. Lori M. Carlson, Henry Holt, 1994 461 · My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold · William Wordsworth · pm Poems, In Two Volumes by William Wordsworth, Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807 461 · Mutability · William Wordsworth · pm Ecclesiastical Sonnets by William Wordsworth, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822 462 · Jabberwocky · Lewis Carroll · pm from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Macmillan, December 1871 466 · Chapter 13: Saying and Suggesting 467 · London · William Blake · pm Songs of Experience by William Blake, 1794 469 · Disillusionment of Ten o’Clock · Wallace Stevens · pm Rogue March 15 1915 470 · Fire and Ice · Robert Frost · pm Harper’s Magazine December 1920 470 · Epitaph · Timothy Steele · pm Counter/Measures #2, 1973 470 · Arranged · Hieu Minh Nguyen · pm Radius Lit February 27 2014 471 · Sea Rose · H. D. (by Hilda Doolittle) · pm Sea Garden by H. D., Constable and Company, 1916 472 · Tears, Idle Tears · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · pm from “The Princess”, Edward Moxon, 1847 472 · Love Calls Us to the Things of This World · Richard Wilbur · pm Things of This World by Richard Wilbur, Harcourt, Brace, 1956 476 · Chapter 14: Imagery 476 · In a Station of the Metro · Ezra Pound · pm Poetry April 1913 476 · The Piercing Chill I Feel · Taniguchi Buson · pm An Introduction to Haiku ed. Harold G. Henderson, Anchor Books, 1958 translated from the Japanese. 477 · The Winter Evening Settles Down · T. S. Eliot · pm Prufrock and Other Observations by T. S. Eliot, The Egoist, 1917, as “Prelude” 478 · Root Cellar · Theodore Roethke · pm The Lost Son and Other Poems by Theodore Roethke, Doubleday, 1948 478 · The Fish · Elizabeth Bishop · pm North and South by Elizabeth Bishop, Houghton Mifflin, 1946 480 · A Route of Evanescence · Emily Dickinson · pm The Atlantic Monthly October 1891 481 · Reapers · Jean Toomer · pm Cane by Jean Toomer, Boni & Liveright, 1923 481 · Pied Beauty · Gerard Manley Hopkins · pm Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Humphrey Milford, 1918 482 · The Falling Flower · Arakida Moritake; translated by Babette Deutsch · pm Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 translated from the Japanese. 483 · Heat-Lightning Streak · Matsuo Basho; translated by X. J. Kennedy · pm Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 translated from the Japanese. 483 · In the Old Stone Pool · Matsuo Basho; translated by X. J. Kennedy · pm Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 translated from the Japanese. 483 · On the One-Ton Temple Bell · Taniguchi Buson; translated by X. J. Kennedy · pm Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 translated from the Japanese. 483 · Moonrise on Mudflats · Taniguchi Buson; translated by Michael Sullivan · pm Backpack Literature: Third Edition ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2010 translated from the Japanese. 483 · Only One Guy · Kobayashi Issa; translated by Cid Corman · pm Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 translated from the Japanese. 483 · Cricket · Kobayashi Issa; translated by Robert Bly · pm Ten Poems by Kobayashi Issa, tr. Robert Bly, self-published, 1969 translated from the Japanese. 484 · Cosmos in Bloom · Suiko Matsushita; translated by Violet Kazue de Cristoforo · pm May Sky: There Is Always Tomorrow ed. & tr. Violet Kazue de Cristoforo, Sun & Moon Press, 1997 translated from the Japanese. 484 · Even the Croaking of Frogs · Hakuro Wada; translated by Violet Kazue de Cristoforo · pm May Sky: There Is Always Tomorrow ed. & tr. Violet Kazue de Cristoforo, Sun & Moon Press, 1997 translated from the Japanese. 484 · The Old Neighborhood · Nick Virgilio · pm Frogpond v38 #1, 2015 484 · Learning to Shave · Adelle Foley · pm Along the Bloodline by Adelle Foley, Pantograph Press, 2003 485 · Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art · John Keats · pm The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats by John Keats, Reeves & Turner, 1883 485 · El Hombre · William Carlos Williams · pm Al Que Quiere! by William Carlos Williams, The Four Seas Company, 1917 486 · Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout · Gary Snyder · pm Riprap by Gary Snyder, Origin Press, 1959 486 · Tattoo · Angela Alaimo O’Donnell · pm Verse Wisconsin #108, 2012 487 · Not Waving but Drowning · Stevie Smith · pm Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith, Andre Deutsch, 1957 487 · Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter · Robert Bly · pm Silence in the Snowy Fields by Robert Bly, Wesleyan University Press, 1962 490 · Chapter 15: Figures of Speech 490 · The Eagle · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · pm Poems (Seventh Edition) by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Edward Moxon, 1851 491 · Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? · William Shakespeare · pm Shake-speares Sonnets by William Shakespeare, Thomas Thorpe, 1609, as “Sonnet 18” 492 · Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? · Howard Moss · pm Minor Monuments by Howard Moss, The Ecco Press, 1986 494 · My Life Had Stood, a Loaded Gun · Emily Dickinson · pm The London Mercury February 1929 495 · Flower in the Crannied Wall · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · pm The Holy Grail and Other Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Strahan and Co., 1869 495 · To See a World in a Grain of Sand · William Blake · pm from “Auguries of Innocence”, Life of William Blake by Alexander Gilchrist, Macmillan and Co., 1863 495 · Metaphors · Sylvia Plath · pm The Colossus and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath, William Heinemann, 1960 496 · Simile · N. Scott Momaday · pm Backpack Literature ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2005 496 · The Heart · Jill Alexander Essbaum · pm Poetry December 2009 497 · I’m Like · Cody Walker · pm The Monarch Review August 28 2013 498 · The Wind · James Stephens · pm The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin by James Stephens, Macmillan, 1915, as “Stephen’s Green” 499 · Hands · Robinson Jeffers · pm Roan Stallion, Tamar, and Other Poems by Robinson Jeffers, Boni & Liveright, 1925 501 · Money · Dana Gioia · pm Gods of Winter by Dana Gioia, Graywolf Press, 1991 501 · Fog · Carl Sandburg · pm Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg, Henry Holt, 1916 502 · A Patch of Old Snow · Robert Frost · pm Mountain Interval by Eobert Frost, Henry Holt, 1916 502 · Turtle · Kay Ryan · pm Flamingo Watching by Kay Ryan, Copper Beech Press, 1994 502 · Love and Friendship · Emily Brontë · pm Poems by Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell, Aylott and Jones, 1846, as by Ellis Bell 503 · Ode on a Grecian Urn · John Keats · pm Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems by John Keats, Taylor and Hessey, 1820 507 · Chapter 16: Sound 509 · Who Goes with Fergus? · William Butler Yeats · pm from “The Countess Cathleen”, The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics by William Butler Yeats, T. Fisher Unwin, 1892 510 · Ulalume · Edgar Allan Poe · ex American Whig Review December 1847 510 · A Slumber Did My Spirit Steal · William Wordsworth · pm Lyrical Ballads (Second Edition) by William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1800 511 · The Watch · Frances Cornford · pm Spring Morning by Frances Cornford, Poetry Bookshop, 1915 511 · The Splendor Falls on Castle Walls · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · pm from “The Princess (Third Edition)”, Edward Moxon, 1850 514 · The Hippopotamus · Hilaire Belloc · pm Cautionary Verses by Hilaire Belloc, Duckworth, 1939 515 · No More Jazz at Alcatraz · Bob Kaufman · pm Cranial Guitar by Bob Kaufman, Coffee House Press, 1995 515 · Aria · David Barber · pm The Crafty Poet II ed. Diane Lockward, Terrapin Books, 2016 516 · God’s Grandeur · Gerard Manley Hopkins · pm Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Oxford University Press, 1918 518 · Spring and Fall · Gerard Manley Hopkins · pm Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Oxford University Press, 1918 518 · In Memoriam John Coltrane · Michael Stillman · pm An Introduction to Poetry ed. X. J. Kennedy, Little, Brown & Co., 1966 521 · Chapter 17: Rhythm 525 · We Real Cool · Gwendolyn Brooks · pm Poetry September 1959 526 · Break, Break, Break · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · pm Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Edward Moxon, 1842 526 · Résumé · Dorothy Parker · pm New York World August 16 1925 531 · Mariner Man · Edith Sitwell · pm Façade and Other Poems, 1920–1935 by Edith Sitwell, Gerald Duckworth and Co. Ltd., 1950 531 · When I Was One-and-Twenty · A. E. Housman · pm McClure’s Magazine May 1906 531 · Annabel Lee · Edgar Allan Poe · pm Tribune October 9 1849 533 · Beat! Beat! Drums! · Walt Whitman · pm Harper’s Weekly September 28 1861 537 · Chapter 18: Closed Form 540 · Days of Wine and Roses · Ernest Dowson · pm Verses by Ernest Dowson, Leonard Smithers, 1896, as “Vitae Summa Brevis” 540 · Song (“Go and catch a falling star”) · John Donne · pm Poems by John Donne, Henry Seyle, 1633 541 · Bonny Barbara Allan · [uncredited] · pm (r) 544 · Ballad of Birmingham · Dudley Randall · pm Broadside Press, 1965 545 · Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds · William Shakespeare · pm Shake-speares Sonnets by William Shakespeare, Thomas Thorpe, 1609, as “Sonnet 116” 546 · “What lips my lips have kissed, and when, and why…” · Edna St. Vincent Millay · pm Renascence 1917 547 · Acquainted with the Night · Robert Frost · pm The Virginia Quarterly Review October 1928 548 · First Poem for You · Kim Addonizio · pp The Philosopher’s Club by Kim Addonizio, BOA Editions, 1993 548 · Shakespearean Sonnet · R. S. Gwynn · pm The Drive-In by R. S. Gwynn, University of Missouri Press, 1986 549 · The Facebook Sonnet · Sherman Alexie · pm The New Yorker May 16 2011 550 · Of Treason · Sir John Harrington · pm Epigrams by Sir John Harrington, 1615 550 · Epitaph on a Dentist · [uncredited] · pm (r) 550 · If Not for the Dark · Wendy Videlock · pm The Dark Gnu and Other Poems by Wendy Videlock, Able Muse Press, 2013 550 · Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night · Dylan Thomas · pm Botteghe Oscure #8, 1951 551 · We Wear the Mask · Paul Laurence Dunbar · pm Majors and Minors by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Hadley & Hadley, 1895 552 · Sestina · Elizabeth Bishop · pm The New Yorker September 15 1956 557 · Chapter 19: Open Form 557 · Ancient Stairway · Denise Levertov · pm This Great Unknowing by Denise Levertov, New Directions, 1999 560 · Buffalo Bill’s · e. e. cummings · pm The Dial January 1920 561 · The Dance · William Carlos Williams · pm Wedge by William Carlos Williams, The Cummington Press, 1944 562 · The Heart · Stephen Crane · pm The Black Riders by Stephen Crane, Copeland and Day, 1895, as “In the Desert” 562 · I Hear America Singing · Walt Whitman · pm Leaves of Grass (Third Edition) by Walt Whitman, self-published, 1860 563 · Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird · Wallace Stevens · pm Others: An Anthology of the New Verse ed. Alfred Kreymborg, Alfred A. Knopf, 1917 566 · In Just— · e. e. cummings · pm The Dial May 1920 567 · I, Too · Langston Hughes · pm Survey Graphic March 1925 567 · Frontera / Border · Francisco X. Alarcón · pm The Geography of Home ed. Christopher Buckley & Gary Young, Heyday Books, 1999 568 · I Shall Paint My Nails Red · Carole Satyamurti · pm Changing the Subject by Carole Satyamurti, Oxford University Press, 1990 570 · Chapter 20: Symbol 571 · The Boston Evening Transcript · T. S. Eliot · pm Poetry October 1915 572 · The Lightning Is a Yellow Fork · Emily Dickinson · pm Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series by Emily Dickinson, Roberts Brothers, 1891 574 · Neutral Tones · Thomas Hardy · pm Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy, Harper, 1898 574 · Facing It · Yusef Komunyakaa · pm Dien Cai Dau by Yusef Komunyakaa, Wesleyan University Press, 1988 575 · He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven · William Butler Yeats · pm The Wind Among the Reeds by William Butler Yeats, Good Press, 1899, as “Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” 576 · The Parable of the Good Seed · [uncredited] · pm King James Version, Robert Barker, 1611 577 · Redemption · George Herbert · pm The Temple by George Herbert, Thom. Buck and Roger Daniel, 1633 577 · Outwitted · Edwin Markham · pm The Shoes of Happiness and Other Poems by Edwin Markham, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1913 578 · Occupation · Suji Kwock Kim · pm Notes from the Divided Country by Suji Kwock Kim, Louisiana State University Press, 2003 579 · Proverbios y Cantares (XXIX) · Antonio Machado · pm Campos de Castilla by Antonio Machado, 1912; in Spanish. 579 · Traveler · Antonio Machado; translated by Michael Ortiz · pm Backpack Literature: Fifth Edition ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2016 translated from the Spanish (“Proverbios y Cantares (XXIX)”, Campos de Castilla, 1912). 579 · The Road Not Taken · Robert Frost · pm The Atlantic Monthly August 1915 580 · Up-Hill · Christina Rossetti · pm Macmillan’s Magazine February 1861 581 · Wild Geese · Mary Oliver · pm Dream Work by Mary Oliver, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986 581 · The New Colossus · Emma Lazarus · pm The Art Amateur January 1884 first read at the opening of the “Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty” on November 2, 1883. 582 · Bats in a Box · Karen Holden · pm 582 · Popcorn-Can Cover · Lorine Niedecker · pm Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. 1965 583 · Lipstick · Tami Haaland · pm Breath in Every Room by Tami Haaland, Lamar University Literary Press, 2014 583 · Anecdote of the Jar · Wallace Stevens · pm Poetry October 1919 586 · Chapter 21: Myth 587 · Nothing Gold Can Stay · Robert Frost · pm The Yale Review October 1923 587 · The World Is Too Much with Us · William Wordsworth · pm Poems, In Two Volumes by William Wordsworth, Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807 588 · Helen · H. D. (by Hilda Doolittle) · pm The Nation and Athenaeum January 27 1923 590 · Medusa · Louise Bogan · pm The New Republic 1921 590 · La Belle Dame Sans Merci · John Keats · pm The Poetical Works of John Keats by John Keats, Edward Moxon, 1848 written in 1819. A somewhat different version was published in The Indicator, May 10, 1820. 592 · First Love: A Quiz · A. E. Stallings · pm Hapax by A. E. Stallings, Northwestern University Press, 2006 594 · The Second Coming · William Butler Yeats · pm The Dial November 1920 595 · Memento Mori in Middle School · Diane Thiel · pm Echolocations by Diane Thiel, Story Line Press, 2000 596 · Lady Lazarus · Sylvia Plath · pm Ariel by Sylvia Plath, Faber and Faber, 1965 600 · What I Learned from the Incredible Hulk · Aimee Nezhukumatathil · pm Miracle Fruit by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Tupelo Press, 2003 601 · Ulysses · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · pm Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Edward Moxon, 1842 605 · Chapter 22: What Is Poetry? 607 · Chapter 23: Poems for Further Reading 607 · Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Tortilla · Aaron Abeyta · pm Colcha by Aaron A. Abeyta, University Press of Colorado, 2001 609 · The X in My Name · Francisco X. Alarcón · pm No Golden Gate for Us by Francisco X. Alarcón, Pennywhistle Press, 1993 609 · Last Words of the Prophet · [uncredited] · pm (r); a Navajo Chant. 609 · Dover Beach · Matthew Arnold · pm New Poems by Matthew Arnold, 1867 611 · Musée des Beaux Arts · W. H. Auden · pm New Writing Spring 1939, as “Palais des beaux arts” 611 · One Art · Elizabeth Bishop · pm The New Yorker April 26 1976 613 · The Tyger · William Blake · pm Songs of Experience by William Blake, 1794 614 · The Mother · Gwendolyn Brooks · pm A Street in Bronzeville by Gwendolyn Brooks, Harper & Brothers, 1945 615 · How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways · Elizabeth Barrett Browning · pm Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Chapman & Hall, 1850, as “Sonnet (“How do I love thee?…”)” 615 · Dostoevsky · Charles Bukowski · pm Bone Palace Ballet by Charles Bukowski, Black Sparrow Press, 1997 616 · Quinceañera · Judith Ortiz Cofer · pm Terms of Survival by Judith Ortiz Cofer, Arte Público Press, 1987 617 · Kubla Khan · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · pm Christabel/Kubla Khan/The Pains of Sleep by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Murray, 1816 619 · Introduction to Poetry · Billy Collins · pm The Apple That Astonished Paris by Billy Collins, University of Arkansas Press, 1988 620 · Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond · e. e. cummings · pm ViVa by e. e. cummings, Boni & Liveright, 1931 621 · Wild Nights—Wild Nights! · Emily Dickinson · pm Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series by Emily Dickinson, Roberts Brothers, 1891 621 · I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain · Emily Dickinson · pm Poems by Emily Dickinson: Third Series by Emily Dickinson, Roberts Brothers, 1896 622 · Because I Could Not Stop for Death · Emily Dickinson · pm Poems by Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson, Roberts Brothers, 1890 623 · Death Be Not Proud · John Donne · pm Poems by John Donne, Henry Seyle, 1633, as “Sonnet X” 623 · The Flea · John Donne · pm Poems by John Donne, Henry Seyle, 1633 624 · The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock · T. S. Eliot · pm Poetry June 1915 628 · Mending Wall · Robert Frost · pm North of Boston by Robert Frost, David Nutt, 1914 629 · Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening · Robert Frost · pm New Hampshire by Robert Frost, Henry Holt, 1923 630 · A Supermarket in California · Allen Ginsberg · pm Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg, City Lights Books, 1956 631 · The Convergence of the Twain · Thomas Hardy · pm Souvenir Programme of the Dramatic and Operatic Matinée in Aid of the “Titanic” Disaster Fund, Royal Opera House, 1912 632 · Digging · Seamus Heaney · pm Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney, Faber & Faber, 1966 633 · Invictus · William Ernest Henley · pm Book of Verses by William Ernest Henley, David Nutt, 1888 634 · Easter Wings · George Herbert · pm The Temple by George Herbert, Thom. Buck and Roger Daniel, 1633 634 · El Ángel de la Guarda · Juan Felipe Herrera · pm Half of the World in Light by Juan Felipe Herrera, University of Arizona Press, 2008 635 · To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time · Robert Herrick · pm Hesperides by Robert Herrick, 1648 636 · The Windhover · Gerard Manley Hopkins · pm Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Oxford University Press, 1918 636 · Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now · A. E. Housman · pm A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman, A.E. Housman, 1896 637 · The Negro Speaks of Rivers · Langston Hughes · pm The Crisis June 1921 638 · Harlem · Langston Hughes · pm Montage of a Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes, Henry Holt and Company, 1951 638 · Fire on the Hills · Robinson Jeffers · pm Thurso’s Landing and Other Poems by Robinson Jeffers, Liveright, Inc., 1932 639 · On My First Son · Ben Jonson · pm The Workes of Beniamin Ionson by Ben Jonson, William Stansby, 1616 639 · On the Death of Friends in Childhood · Donald Justice · pm The Summer Anniversaries by Donald Justice, Wesleyan University Press, 1960 640 · When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be · John Keats · pm The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats by John Keats, Reeves & Turner, 1883 640 · Poetry of Departures · Philip Larkin · pm The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin, The Marvell Press, 1955 641 · Piano · D. H. Lawrence · pm Love Poems and Others by D. H. Lawrence, Duckworth and Co., 1913 642 · Night Mirror · Li-Young Lee · pm Book of My Nights by Li-Young Lee, BOA Editions, 2001 643 · O Taste and See · Denise Levertov · pm O Taste and See by Denise Levertov, New Directions, 1964 643 · Drinking Alone by Moonlight · Li Po; translated by Arthur Waley · pm More Translations from the Chinese ed. & tr. Arthur Waley, Allen & Unwin, 1919 translated from the Chinese. 644 · Learning to Love America · Shirley Geok-lin Lim · pm What the Fortune Teller Didn’t Say by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, West End Press, 1998 645 · To His Coy Mistress · Andrew Marvell · pm Miscellaneous poems by Andrew Marvell, Esq. by Andrew Marvell, Robert Boulter, 1681 646 · If We Must Die · Claude McKay · pm The Liberator July 1919 647 · Recuerdo · Edna St. Vincent Millay · pm Poetry May 1919 647 · When I Consider How My Light Is Spent · John Milton · pm Poems of Mr. John Milton, 2nd edn. by John Milton, Thomas Dring, 1673 648 · A Strange Beautiful Woman · Marilyn Nelson · pm Mama’s Promises by Marilyn Nelson, Louisiana State University Press, 1985 648 · We Are Many · Pablo Neruda; translated by Alastair Reid · pm We Are Many by Pablo Neruda, tr. Alastair Reid, Cape Goliard Press, 1967 translated from the Spanish (“Muchos somos”, Estravagario, 1958). 650 · The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter · Ezra Pound · pm Cathay by Ezra Pound, Elkin Mathews, 1915 loosely translated from a poem by the Chinese poet Li Bai, called “Chánggān Xíng”. 650 · Naming of Parts · Henry Reed · pm The New Statesman and Nation August 1942 651 · Miniver Cheevy · Edwin Arlington Robinson · pm Scribner’s Magazine March 1907 652 · Song (“When I am dead, my dearest”) · Christina Rossetti · pm The Goblin Market and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti, 1862 653 · When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes · William Shakespeare · pm Shake-speares Sonnets by William Shakespeare, Thomas Thorpe, 1609, as “Sonnet 29” 653 · My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun · William Shakespeare · pm Shake-speares Sonnets by William Shakespeare, Thomas Thorpe, 1609, as “Sonnet 130” 654 · Ozymandias · Percy Bysshe Shelley · pm The Examiner January 11 1818 654 · The Snow Man · Wallace Stevens · pm Poetry October 1921 655 · Fern Hill · Dylan Thomas · pm Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art October 1945 656 · When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer · Walt Whitman · pm Drum-Taps by Walt Whitman, Peter Eckler, 1865 657 · O Captain! My Captain! · Walt Whitman · pm Sequel to Drum-Taps by Walt Whitman, Washington, 1865 658 · The Widow’s Lament in Springtime · William Carlos Williams · pm Sour Grapes by William Carlos Williams, The Four Seas Company, 1921 659 · Queen-Anne’s-Lace · William Carlos Williams · pm Sour Grapes by William Carlos Williams, The Four Seas Company, 1921 659 · Composed Upon Westminster Bridge · William Wordsworth · pm Poems, In Two Volumes by William Wordsworth, Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807 660 · Sailing to Byzantium · William Butler Yeats · pm The Tower by W. B. Yeats, Macmillan and Co., 1928 661 · When You Are Old · William Butler Yeats · pm The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics by William Butler Yeats, T. Fisher Unwin, 1892 663 · Drama 664 · Talking with David Ives: “Comedy Is Just Tragedy Without the Sentimentality” · Dana Gioia · iv Backpack Literature: Third Edition ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, Pearson, 2010 [Ref. David Ives] 667 · Chapter 24: Reading a Play 669 · Trifles · Susan Glaspell · pl Players Press, 1916 689 · Chapter 25: Tragedy and Comedy 692 · Doctor Faustus · Christopher Marlowe; edited by Sylvan Barnet · ex from The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Thomas Bushnell, 1604 700 · The Importance of Being Earnest · Oscar Wilde · ex Leonard Smithers, 1899 704 · Sure Thing · David Ives · pl All in the Timing by David Ives, Dramatists Play Service, 1994 718 · Chapter 26: The Theater of Sophocles 725 · Oedipus the King · Sophocles; translated by David Grene · pl Sophocles I by Sophocles, tr. David Grene, University of Chicago Press, 1954 translated from the Greek. 771 · Chapter 27: The Theater of Shakespeare 778 · Othello, the Moor of Venice · William Shakespeare · pl Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies by William Shakespeare, Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623 893 · Chapter 28: The Modern Theater 895 · A Raisin in the Sun · Lorraine Hansberry · pl Random House, 1959 973 · A Doll’s House · Henrik Ibsen; edited by Viktoria Michelsen; translated by R. Farquharson Sharp · pl J.M. Dent, 1910 translated from the Norwegian (“Et Dukkehjem”, 1879). 1036 · The Cuban Swimmer · Milcha Sanchez-Scott · pl Dog Lady and The Cuban Swimmer by Milcha Sanchez-Scott, Theatre Communications Group, 1984 1051 · Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 · Anna Deavere Smith · ex Anchor Press, March 1994 1063 · Chapter 29: Plays for Further Reading 1063 · Mistaken Identity · Sharon E. Cooper · pl Laugh Lines ed. Nina Shengold & Eric Lane, Vintage, 2007 1068 · The Sound of a Voice · David Henry Hwang · pl Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1984 1084 · Click · Brighde Mullins · pl 2000 1087 · Fences · August Wilson · pl Plume, June 1986 1145 · Writing 1147 · Chapter 30: Writing About Literature 1148 · Nothing Gold Can Stay · Robert Frost · pm The Yale Review October 1923 1201 · Chapter 31: Writing a Research Paper 1229 · Literary Credits · [uncredited] · ms 1243 · Index of Authors and Titles · [uncredited] · ix