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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aurora Levins Morales: | “Child of the Americas” |
| Robert Creeley | “I Know a Man” “Words” |
| Sherman Alexie | “Because My Father Always Said He was the Only Indian Who Saw… |
| Raymond Carver: | What We Talk About When We Talk about Love |
| John Updike: | Trust Me |
| John Barth | Lost in the Funhouse |
| Richard Rodriguez: | from Hunger of Memory |
| Gwendolyn Brooks: | “A Bronzeville Mother Loiter in Mississippi, Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon” & “Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till” (2500) |
| Ann Petry | “The Witness” (2252-2263) |
| Amiri Baraka/Le Roi Jones: | Dutchman (2932-2952) |
| Audre Lorde: | “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Mater’s House” (2898-2902) |
| Lorna Dee Cervantes: | “Poem for the Young White man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person could believe in the War Between Races” (3449-52) |
| Richard Rodriguez: | from Hunger of Memory (3221-24) |
| Tomas Rivera: | from Y no se lo trago la tierra/ And the Earth did not Devour Him (2962-68) |
| Frank O’Hara: | “The Day Lady Died” “Why I am Not a Painter” (2641-2643) |
| Elizabeth Bishop | “The Fish” (2314-15) |
| Sylvia Plath: | “Daddy” (2840) “Lady Lazarus” (2840) “Fever 103” (2844-2846) |
| Anne Sexton: | “Housewife” (2834) “Young” (2834) |
| Adrienne Rich: | “Driving into the Wreck” (2678-2680) “Power” (2682) |
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti | “I am Waiting” (2602-2606) |
| Allen Ginsberg: | “A Supermarket in California” “Howl” “America” (2581-2593) |
| Gary Snyder: | “Riprap” (2619) “Wave” (2620-21) |
| James Baldwin: | “Sonny’s Blues” (2194-2215) |
| Flannery O’Connor: | “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (2568-2578) |
| John Okada: | from No-No Boy (2534-2543) |
| Pietro Di Donato | from Christ in Concrete (2194-2202) |
| Randolph Bourne: | “Tran-National America” (1957-1967) |
| Anzia Yezierska | “America and I” (1970-1977) |
| John Dos Passos: | “The Body of an American” from U.S.A (1996-2000) |
| Gertrude Stein: | from The Making of Americans (1457-1459) |
| Scott Fitzgerald: | “Babylon Revisited” (1617-1631) |
| William Carlos Williams: | “Danse Russe” (1468), “The Red Wheelbarrow” (1471) |
| E.E. Cummings: | “The Cambridge Ladies who live in furnished Souls” (1573) “Since feeling First” (1575), “Picasso” (1577) |
| Wallace Stevens: “The Snow Man” (1681), “Of Mere Being” (1687) | |
| T.S. Eliot (Modernist) | “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1583-1586) |
| Ezra Pound: | “In a Station of the Metro” (1402), “With Usura” from Cantos (1417-1419) |
| H.D. | “Helen” (1532) |
| William Faulkner (Modernist South Voice) | “Delta Autumn” and “Barn Burning” (1690-1716) |
| Katherine Ann Porter (Modernist South Voice) | “He” (1633-1640) |
| Zora Neale Hurston (Modernist South Voices) | “Sweat” (1831-1839) |
| Wallace Stevens (Modernist) | “The Snow Man” (1681), “Of Mere Being” (1687) |
| Jean Toomer (Harlem Renaissance) | “Karintha” from Cane (1756) |
| Claude McKay (Harlem Renaissance) | “If We Must Die”, “The Lynching”, “Harlem Shadows”, “America” (1848-1850) |
| Aurora Levins Morales | “Child of the Americas” (3469) |
| Pedro Pietri | “Puerto Rican Obituary” (3211-3217) |
| Tato Laviera | “AmeRican” (3404-06) |
| Leslie Marmon Silko | “Lullaby” (3266-71) |
| 1865-1910 Reconstruction, Local Color, American Realism | Joel Chandler Harris - Paul Laurence Dunbar - Charles Waddell Chestnett - Samuel Langhorne Clemens/ Mark Twain - Kate Chopin |
| Black Mountain and Postmodernist Prose | Robert Creeley: “I Know a Man” “Words” Frank O’Hara: “The Day Lady Died” “Why I am Not a Painter” Elizabeth Bishop “The Fish” John Updike: “Trust Me” Raymond Carver: “What We Talk About When We Talk about Love” Frank O’Hara: “The Day Lady Died” “ |
| Black Mountain and Postmodernist Prose | Joyce Carol Oates: “Where Are you Going John Barth: “Lost in the Funhouse” |
| Confessional Poets | Sylvia Plath: “Daddy” “Lady Lazarus” “Fever 103” Anne Sexton: “Housewife” “Young” Adrienne Rich: “Driving into the Wreck |
| Beat Poets | Lawrence Ferlinghetti “I am Waiting” Allen Ginsberg: “A Supermarket in California” “Howl” “America” Gary Snyder: “Riprap” “Wave” |
| Social Realism and the Immigrant Experience | Pietro Di Donato from Christ in Concrete Randolph Bourne: “Tran-National America” Anzia Yezierska “America and I” |