THE PEARSON CUSTOM LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

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1 THE PEARSON CUSTOM LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE American Literature from 1945 to the Present (Compiled by Jacquelyn McLendon, College of William and Mary) Borderlands: Contending Voices in Postwar America: Writing in America, (26 pp.) A. R. Ammons: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) Corson s Inlet (4 pp.) So I Said I Am Ezra (1 pp.) John Ashbery: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) The Instruction Manual (4 pp.) The Lament Upon the Waters (2 pp.) The Painter (1 pp.) James Baldwin: Biographical Headnote (5 pp.) Sonny s Blues (26 pp.) Amiri Baraka: Biographical Headnote (5 pp.) Dutchman (16 pp.) An Agony, As Now (2 pp.) In Memory of Radio (2 pp.) A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand (1 pp.) John Barth: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) Lost in the Funhouse (19 pp.) Donald Barthelme: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) At the End of the Mechanical Age (6 pp.) Elizabeth Bishop: Biographical Headnote (5 pp.) The Fish (3 pp.) At the Fishhouses (3 pp.) In the Waiting Room (3 pp.) One Art (1 pp.) Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance (3 pp.) David Bradley: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) from The Chaneysville Incident (8 pp.) Gwendolyn Brooks: Biographical Headnote (6 pp.) The Mother (2 pp.) We Real Cool (1 pp.) The Bean Eaters (1 pp.) Kitchenette Building (1 pp.) Raymond Carver: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.)

2 from Cathedral (12 pp.) John Cheever: Biographical Headnote (2 pp.) The Swimmer (11 pp.) Sandra Cisneros: Biographical Headnote (6 pp.) from Woman Hollering Creek: Mericans (3 pp.) Robert Creeley: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) For Love (3 pp.) The Door (3 pp.) James Dickey: Biographical Headnote (5 pp.) Cherrylog Road (4 pp.) The Lifeguard (2 pp.) The Shark s Parlor (4 pp.) Rita Dove: Biographical Headnote (5 pp.) Adolescence III (1 pp.) Daystar (1 pp.) Parsley (3 pp.) Weathering Out (2 pp.) Roast Possum (2 pp.) Ralph Waldo Ellison: Biographical Headnote (5 pp.) Battle Royal (12 pp.) Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Biographical Headnote (5 pp.) In Goya s greatest scenes we seem to see (2 pp.) Dove Sta Amore (1 pp.) I am Waiting (5 pp.) Allen Ginsburg: Biographical Headnote (7 pp.) A Supermarket in California (2 pp.) Howl (10 pp.) Louise Glück: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) Celestial Music (2 pp.) Mock Orange (1 pp.) Vespers (1 pp.) Joy Harjo: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window (3 pp.) We Encounter Nat King Cole as We Invent the Future (2 pp.) Michael Harper: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) Nightmare Begins Responsibility (2 pp.) Here Where Coltrane Is (2 pp.) Robert Earl Hayden: Biographical Headnote (4 pp.) Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday (2 pp.) Those Winter Sundays (1 pp.)

3 Maxine Hong Kingston: Biographical Headnote (4 pp.) No Name Woman (10 pp.) Yusef Komunyakaa: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) Birds on a Powerline (1 pp.) Banking Potatoes (1 pp.) February in Sidney (2 pp.) Denise Levertov: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) from Olga Poems (4 pp.) In Mind (1 pp.) Zeroing In (2 pp.) Audre Lorde: Biographical Headnote (4 pp.) Separation (1 pp.) The Woman Thing (1 pp.) Robert Lowell: Biographical Headnote (5 pp.) For the Union Dead (3 pp.) Walking in the Blue (2 pp.) Mr. Edwards and the Spider (2 pp.) The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket (6 pp.) Skunk Hour (2 pp.) Epilogue (1 pp.) Bernard Malamud: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) The Magic Barrel (14 pp.) W. S. Merwin: Biographical Headnote (2 pp.) Fly (2 pp.) Grandfather in the Old Men s Home (2 pp.) Strawberries (2 pp.) The Drunk in the Furnace (1 pp.) Toni Morrison: Biographical Headnote (5 pp.) from Sula (11 pp.) Joyce Carol Oates: Biographical Headnote (5 pp.) Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (14 pp.) Flannery O Connor: Biographical Headnote (4 pp.) Good Country People (17 pp.) Frank O Hara: Biographical Headnote (5 pp.) The Day Lady Died (2 pp.) Why I am Not a Painter (2 pp.) A Step Away from Them (2 pp.) Tillie Olsen: Biographical Headnote (4 pp.) I Stand Here Ironing (7 pp.) Charles Olson: Biographical Headnote (4 pp.)

4 I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You (3 pp.) Maximus, to himself (2 pp.) Simon J. Ortiz: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) from From Sand Creek (7 pp.) Marge Piercy: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) The Cast Off (2 pp.) The Moon is Always Female (3 pp.) Sylvia Plath: Biographical Headnote (4 pp.) Daddy (3 pp.) Fever 103 (2 pp.) Lady Lazarus (3 pp.) Ariel (2 pp.) Thomas Pynchon: Biographical Headnote (5 pp.) Entropy (13 pp.) Adrienne Rich: Biographical Headnote (5 pp.) Diving into the Wreck (3 pp.) Power (1 pp.) Living in Sin (1 pp.) Theodore Roethke: Biographical Headnote (4 pp.) Cuttings (1 pp.) Cuttings (later) (1 pp.) I Knew a Woman (2 pp.) My Papa s Waltz (1 pp.) Open House (1 pp.) The Far Field (4 pp.) Philip Roth: Biographical Headnote (7 pp.) The Conversion of the Jews (13 pp.) Sonia Sanchez: Biographical Headnote (6 pp.) to blk/record/buyers (1 pp.) Masks (2 pp.) homecoming (1 pp.) poem at thirty (2 pp.) Anne Sexton: Biographical Headnote (4 pp.) Her Kind (1 pp.) All My Pretty Ones (2 pp.) Unknown Girl in a Maternity Ward (2 pp.) Wanting to Die (2 pp.) Leslie Marmon Silko: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.) Lullaby (8 pp.) Gary Snyder: Biographical Headnote (3 pp.)

5 Riprap (1 pp.) Axe Handles (2 pp.) Amy Tan: Biographical Headnote (4 pp.) from The Joy Luck Club: Two Kinds (10 pp.) John Updike: Biographical Headnote (4 pp.) Separating (10 pp.) Alice Walker: Biographical Headnote (4 pp.) Everyday Use (8 pp.) Eudora Welty: Biographical Headnote (5 pp.) Petrified Man (12 pp.) Richard Wilbur: Biographical Headnote (5 pp.) A World Without Objects is a Sensible Emptiness (2 pp.) Museum Piece (1 pp.) The Beautiful Changes (1 pp.) The Death of a Toad (1 pp.) The Mind Reader (5 pp.) *Suggested titles available through the database or a Penguin bunde: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (74 pp.) PAL or Penguin ISBN Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire Penguin ISBN: Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie (59 pp.) PAL