anthology - Aunt Lute

The Aunt Lute
ANTHOLOGY
of u.s.
Contributors
KEVIN DIPIRRO
BONNIE J . DOW
GEORGETTE ENRIQUEZ
ARMANDO GARCIA
MARCY KNOPF-NEWMAN
MONICA MARTINEZ
JANET FRY REED
ELDA MARIA ROMAN
aunt lute books
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WOMEN
WRITERS
General Editors
LISA MARIA HOGELAND
AND SHAY BRAWN
Co-Editors
JULIANA CHANG, LINDA GARBER,
MICHELLE GIBSON, ANAHID KASSABIAN,
DEBORAH T. MEEM, RHONDA PETTIT,
MARfA JOSEFINA SALDANA-PORTILLO
VOLUME TWO:
The 20th Century
CONTENTS
v Acknowledgments
Preface
XXIX
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX 1850-1919
I
2
3
3
FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS 1855-1944
4
II
57
58
62
65
Patterns
Madonna of the Evening Bowers
The Sisters
GERTRUDE STEIN 1874-1946
70
97
The Prodigal Guest
AMY LOWELL 1874-1925
65
70
Lullaby
Emma Goldman
Amy Lowell
ZONA GALE 1874-1938
58
62
Tommy, the UnsentinIental
LOLA RIDGE 1873-1941
57
58
Was My Life Worth Living?
WILLA CATHER 1873-1947
51
56
The Man Who Was Loved by Women
EMMA GOLDMAN 1869-1940
44
50
The Americanizing of Pau Tsu
MARY HUNTER AUSTIN 1868-1934
41
43
The Other Two
SUI SIN FAR (EDITH EATON) 1865-1914
34
41
Patriotism and Pacifists in Wartime
EDITH WHARTON 1862-1937
21
33
A Northern Negro's Autobiography
JANE ADDAMS 1860-1935
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Solitude
Communism
Woman
The Mother of Us All
WINNIFRED EATON (ONOTO WATANNA) 1875-1954
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from Me
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SARAH N. CLEGHORN 1876-1959
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108
109
109
SUSAN GLASPELL 1876-1948
110
119
139
140
141
142
143
144
The Sleeper Wakes
MINA LOY 1882-1966
172
175
177
178
Blind Leaders
JESSIE REDMON FAUSET 1882-1961
153
171
The Heart of a Woman
Common Dust
Motherhood
HELEN KELLER 1880-1968
145
152
The Black Finger
A Mona Lisa
Tenebris
GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON CA. 1880-1966
143
144
The Prevention of Conception
To Comrades and Friends
Why the Woman Rebel?
ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE 1880-1958
142
143
The Biologist and His Son
MARGARET SANGER 1879-1966
138
141
How Poor Women Prostitute Themselves
DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER 1879-1958
133
138
Mammy: A Story
LUISA CAPETILLO 1879-1922
131
133
The School Days of an Indian Girl
ADELINE F. RIES N.D.
129
131
Trifles
ZITKALA-SA (GERTRUDE SIMMONS BONIN) 1876-1938
119
129
The Golf Links Lie So Near the Mill
Comrade Jesus
Jane Addams
Parturition
Three Moments in Paris
Gertrude Stein
ANNE SPENCER 1882-1975
178
179
180
181
Before the Feast at Shushan
At the Carnival
White Things
Lady, Lady
CONTENTS
181
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT 18 84-1962
182
185
186
187
SARA TEASDALE 1884-1933
187
188
188
189
213
224
226
228
228
232
233
The Intelligent Woman
MARIANNE MOORE 18 87-1972
236
237
244
244
Cell Bound Blues
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Prove It on Me Blues
MARfA LU ISA GARZA 1887-1990
234
235
Oread
Sheltered Garden
Fragment Forty
Helen
Sigil
GERTRUDE " MA" RAINEY 1886-1939
232
234
America and I
H . D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) 1886- 1961
224
232
Let No Charitable Hope
Portrait in Black Paint, with a Very Sparing Use of Whitewash
ANZIA YEZIERSKA CA. 1885-1970
21 6
223
from Coyote Stories
ELINOR WYLIE 1885-1928
213
216
We Should Work
MOURNING DOVE (CHRISTINE QUINTASKET) 1885 ?-1936
210
212
Overtones
JOVITA IDAR 18 85 -1946
208
209
Sisters Under Their Skin
ALICE GERSTENBERG 1885-1972
199
208
A Song to Eleonora Duse in "Francesca da Rimini"
I Shall Not Care
New Year's Dawn-Broadway
EDNA FERBER 18 85-1968
189
199
A Challenge to American Sportsmanship
Freedom: Promise or Fact
The Atomic Bomb
The Fish
Marriage
Roses Only
FANN IE HURST 1889-1968
245
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FRADEL SCHTOK
277
279
291
292
293
XXVI
293
Apostrophe to Man
293
CXXVIll
294
An Ancient Gesture
295
296
297
298
298
302
302
1894-1948
With Child
Interior
Demeter
1896-1967
Blues Ain't Nothin' But
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues
How Can I Miss You When I've Got Dead Aim?
IDA COX
303
304
304
1896-1965
The Elopers
DAWN POWELL
305
310
1893-1967
The Far-Sighted Muse
Resume
Penelope
The Waltz
GENEVIEVE TAGGARD
301
305
CA. 1892-1937
Back-Water Blues
Please Help Me Get Him Off My Mind
Poor Man's Blues
DOROTHY PARKER
297
303
1892-1950
BESSIE SMITH
295
301
A Night Among the Horses
xli
xlii
Dirge without Music
292
296
1892-1982
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
291
294
1891-1963
Freedom
DJUNA BARNES
287
1891-1960
Black Death
NELLA LARSEN
284
287
1890-CA. 1930
The Veil
ZORA NEALE HURSTON
280
284
1890-1980
The Downward Path to Wisdom
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER
LOUISE BOGAN
310
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Women
Cassandra
1897-1970
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311
MARITA BONNER 1898-1971
312 One Boy's Story
321
ELSA GIDLOW 1898-1986
321
322
323
323
For the Goddess Too Well Known
Invocation to Sappho
You Say
MAY MILLER 1899-1995
324 Stragglers in the Dust
330
FLORENCE REECE 1900-1986
33 t
332
Which Side Are You On?
MALVINA REYNOLDS 19°0-1978
332 We Don't Need the Men
333 Little Boxes
334
LAURA (RIDING) JACKSON 19°1-1991
335 Chloe Or ...
335
338
The Tiger
GWENDOLYN BENNETT 19°2-1981
338 Heritage
339 To a Dark Girl
339 Secret
340
KAY BOYLE 1902-1992
340 Winter Night
347
ANATs NIN 1903-1977
348 Hejda
353
AYN RAND 1905-1992
353 The Man-Haters
355 "Through Your Most Grievous Fault"
357 The Secular Meaning of Christmas
358
LILLIAN HELLMAN 19°6-1984
358
366
}Tom Scoundrel Time
RUTH RUBIN 1906-2000
366 The Ballad of the Triangle Fire
367
LUISA MORENO 1907-1992
367
371
DOROTHY WEST 1907?-1998
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376
Caravans of Sorrow: Noncitizen Americans of the Southwest
The Typewriter
HARRIETTE SIMPSON ARNOW 19°8-1986
377
Blessed-Blessed
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MARTHA GELLHORN 1908-1998
384
396
ANN PETRY 1908-1997
396
403
Correspondents
LiNG-AI (GLADYS) Li
410
416
Where Is the Voice Coming From?
BLUME LEMPEL 1910-1999
407
410
Like a Winding Sheet
EUDORA WELTY 1909-2001
403
407
Miami-New York
CA.
1910-
The Submission of Rose Moy
ELIZABETH BISHOP 1911-1979
The Fish
Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore
420 In the Waiting Room
422 One Art
417
418
423
MARY MCCARTHY 1912-1989
423
427
TILLIE OLSEN 1912-2007
427
433
I Stand Here Ironing
MAY SARTON 1912-1995
433
434
434
438
Mlle. Gulliver en Amerique
In Time Like Air
All Day I Was with Trees
.from I Knew a Phoenix
MURIEL RUKEYSER 1913-1980
The Poem As Mask
Despisals
439 Bying to Hanoi
439 Not to Be Printed, Not to Be Said, Not to Be Thought
438
439
440
JULIA DE BURGOS 1914-1953
To Julia de Burgos
Canto to Marti
443 The Voice of the Dead
445 Farewell in Welfare Island
446 Poem for My Death
440
441
447
RUTH STONE 1915-
Topography
The Room
448 So Be It
449 Words
447
448
CONTENTS
450
MARGARET WALKER 1915-1998
450
452
"Jo ALLYN"
452
457
464
465
465
470
471
474
494
496
497
499
502
502
The Poetess
Noisetone
Sound and Structure
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH 1921-1995
503
505
Good Friday
Beach Glass
BARBARA GUEST 1920-2006
50 I
502
Like One of the Family
"The Pocket Book Game"
The ABC's of Life and Learning
AMY CLAMPITT 1920-1994
498
501
The Centaur
Women
ALICE CHILDRESS 1920-1994
495
498
from Nisei Daughter
MAY SWENSON 1919-1989
492
'494
Like That
MONICA ITOI SONE 1919482
492
Gay Chaps at the Bar
the mother
A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi
Mother Burns Bacon.
The Last Q!1atrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till
CARSON MCCULLERS 1917-1967
475
481
In Topaz
Seagulls
Evacuees
Retrospect
GWENDOLYN BROOKS 1917-2000
466
475
The Friends
TOYO SUYEMOTO 1916-2003
464
466
The Eleventh Hour
SHIRLEY JACKSON 1916-1965
457
463
For My People
The Fully Licensed Whore, or, the Wife
HISAYE YAMAMOTO 1921506
506
Et Ego in America VIXI
Seventeen Syllables
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GRACE PALEY 1922-2007
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519
JEAN RITCHIE 1922519
520
521
The Land N Don't Stop Here Anymore
Black Waters
JADE SNOW WONG 1922-2006
521
531
A Conversation with My Father
.from Fifth Chinese Daughter
DENISE LEVERTOV 1923-1997
0 Taste and See
Song for Ishtar
532 What Were They Like?
531
531
533
MITSUYE YAMADA 1923-
Cincinnati
The Night Before Good-Bye
535 Thirty Years Under
535 Invisibility Is an Unnatural Disaster
533
534
540
ETEL AD NAN 1925540
548
CAROLYN KIZER 1925548
550
550
Revelation
CHRISTINE JORGENSEN 1926-1989
566
568
Purgatory
After Love
FLANNERY O'CONNOR 1925 - 1964
551
565
The Suburbans
MAXINE KUMIN 1925550
551
.from Of Cities and Women (Letters to Fawwaz)
.from Christine Jorgensen : A Personal Autobiography
ANNE SEXTON 1928-1974
Housewife
Wanting to Die
569 In Celebration of My Uterus
571 Rumpelstiltskin
574 After Auschwitz
568
568
575
URSULA K . LE GUIN 1929575
591
Ether, OR
PAULE MARSHALL 1929592
Brooklyn
CO NTE NTS
605
ADRIENNE RICH 1929605
605
609
610
612
613
643
669
670
672
676
692
693
Notes from a Native Daughter
AUDRE LORDE 1934-1992
703
704
705
705
707
710
712
Poetics
Dream: The Loba Reveals Herself
The Leba Addresses the Goddess / or The Poet as Priestess Addresses the
Loba-Goddess
JOAN DIDION 1934695
702
The Woman-Identified Woman
DIANE 01 PRIMA 1934692
694
Debriefing
RADICALESBIANS
688
692
Mississippi Goddam
Four Women
SUSAN SONTAG 1933-2004
677
688
Ariel
Cut
Stings
Wintering
NINA SIMONE 1933-2003
674
677
Margaret Gamer
SYLVIA PLATH 1932-1963
669
673
Ending Poem (with Aurora Levins Morales)
I Am the Reasonable One
TONI MORRISON 1931645
668
The Drinking Gourd
ROSARIO MORALES 1930642
645
AuntJennifer's Tigers
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law
Planetarium
Origins and History of Consciousness
Fox
LORRAINE VIVIAN HANSBERRY 1930-1965
613
642
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The Brown Menace, or, Poem to the Survival of Roaches
To My Daughter The Junkie On A Train
Coal
Power
Afterimages
The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action
RENEE RICHARDS 193471 3
ftom Second Serve
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717
720
722
NELLIE WONG 1934722
723
725
726
730
730
733
736
741
751
There Are Not Leaves Enough to Crown to Cover to Crown to Cover
DIANE WAKOSKI 1937757
759
760
this. notes. new year.
Medusa's hair was snakes. Was thought, split inward.
SUSAN HOWE 1937754
757
LaJonfontayn
KATHLEEN FRASER 1937753
754
The Long Death
Poetry Festival Lover
ESTELA PORTILLO TRAMBLEY 1936-1999
742
750
If You Saw a Negro Lady
Poem About My Rights
Poem Because the 1996 U.S. Poet Laureate Told the San Francisco Chronicle
There Are "Obvious" Poets-All of Them White--and Then There Are
"Representative" Poets-None of Them White
MARGE PIERCY 1936740
742
homage to my hips
homage to my hair
shapeshifter poems
JUNE JORDAN 1936-2002
732
739
I'm Gonna Be an Engineer
LUCILLE CLIFTON 1936730
731
Rage
Wild Geese
PEGGY SEEGER 1935727
729
Dreams in Harrison Railroad Park
From a Heart of Rice Straw
MARY OLIVER 1935725
726
Homecoming
Love Song No.3
'Just Don't Never Give Up on Love"
From a Girl in a Mental Institution
Human History: Its Documents
LOURDES CASAL 1938-1981
761
762
763
764
Armando
For Ana Veldford
From Yeats
That Tenacious One
CONTENTS
765
ROSARIO FERRE 1938765
782
NICHOLASA MOHR 1938782
792
808
828
877
Work Sonnets
Fradel Schtok
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE 1941878
879
881
The Woman Who Was a Red Deer Dressed for the Deer Dance
IRENA KLEPFISZ 1941870
878
Yo, La Malinche
DIANE GLANCY 1941862
870
A Wife's Story
INA CUMPIANO 1941856
862
No Name Woman
BHARATI MUKHERJEE 1940 846
855
The Common Woman
Helen you always werelthe factory
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON 1940838
846
When Conventional Methods Fail
JUDY GRAHN 1940824
837
Going Critical
ANGELA DE HOYOS 1940823
823
Some Like Indians Endure
The One Who Skins Cats
TONI CADE BAMBARA 1939-1995
81 3
822
I'm Your Horse in the Night
PAULA GUNN ALLEN 1939805
812
6:27 P.M.
LUISA VALENZUELA 1938802
805
In Another Place in a Different Era
JOYCE CAROL OATES 1938793
802
Sleeping Beauty
The Universal Soldier
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
GLORIA ANZALDUA 1942-2004
881
882
883
A Sea of Cabbages
CihuaJiyotl, Woman Alone
How to Tame a Wild Tongue
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MARILYN HACKER I942892
894
JANICE MIRIKITANI 1942895
896
899
We, the Dangerous
Breaking Silence
PAT MORA I942899
899
903
Ballad of Ladies Lost and Found
Plot
Hands
SHARON OLDS 1942-
What if God
Japanese-American Farmhouse, California, 1942
904 Mrs. Krikorian
903
904
906
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON I942906
907
909
I Be Your Water
Greed
NIKKI GIOVANNI 1943-
Nikki-Rosa
Seduction
91 0 Ego Tripping
909
910
912
LOUISE GLUCK 1943912
914
918
SUSAN GRIFFIN 1943919
921
WOMANSLAUGHTER
ALICE WALKER 1944957
963
A Black Feminist Statement
PAT PARKER 1944-I989
950
956
The New Lost Feminist
THE COMBAHEE RIVER COLLECTIVE
943
950
Beautiful Senoritas
RITA MAE BROWN 1944941
942
I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman
DOLORES PRIDA I943921
940
Nest
October
Everyday Use
SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS I944-1999
963
964
Any Woman's Blues
Drivin Wheel
CONTENTS
967
LUCHA CORPI 1945967
969
969
970
971
974
975
976
979
980
981
987
988
Wanda Why Aren't You Dead
Intruder
Business As Usual
CAROLYN LEI-LANILAU 1946989
991
994
Contagious Melancholia
WANDA COLEMAN 1946986
988
Ceremony for Completing a Poetry Reading
No Public Safety
Savage Eloquence
Wings of a Wild Goose
MICHELLE CLIFF 1946983
986
Ode to a Gym Teacher
CHRYSTOS 1946978
983
After the Invasion
Hen; Iah; T6ka' N6n:Wa.
Indian Singing in 20th Century America
Laughter Breaks
MEG CHRISTIAN 1946976
978
Hanukkah Stones
Casablanca Colorized
bad daughters
GAIL TREMBLAY 1945973
976
Dark Romance
Marina Mother
MELANIE KAyE/KANTROWITZ 1945970
973
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The Inner Life of Lani Moo
The Presence of Lite Spam-lingering in my psyche for a long time but
oozing out after the (first) Rodney King verdict.
MINNIE BRUCE PRATT 1946994
999
Crime Against Nature
Profits
1000 PATTI SMITH 1946\000
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georgia o'keeffe
babelogue
1002
AI 1947\002 The Cockfighter's Daughter
I 005 F1ashback
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MEl-MEl BERSSENBRUGGE 1947\0\0
The Four Year Old Girl
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1013 OCTAVIA BUTLER 1947-2006
101 3
Bloodchild
1027 ROBERTA HILL 19471027
1029
Leap in the Dark
Star Quilt
1030 LINDA HOGAN 1947-
Friday Night
The Truth Is
1032 Wall Songs
1030
1031
1034 Luz MARIA UMPIERRE 1947-
In Response
No HatchetJob
1036 The Statue
1034
1035
1037 SANDRA MARfA ESTEVES 1948-
A la Mujer Borrinqueiia
For South Bronx
1039 Black Notes and "You Do Something to Me"
1037
1038
1040 LINDA FAIGAO-HALL 19481041
The FeMale Heart {Pusong &hoe}
1065 JEWELLE GOMEZ 19481066
Don't Explain
1073 WENDY ROSE 19481073
1074
Three Thousand Dollar Death Song
Loo-Wit
1076 NTOZAKE SHANGE 19481076
1078
About Atlanta
We Need a God Who Bleeds Now
1079 LESLIE MARMON SILKO 19481079
Private Property
1085 DOROTHY ALLISON 19491085
Don't Tell Me You Don' t Know
1094 JANICE GOULD 19491094
1097
My Father
The Sixties
1099 JESSICA HAGEDORN 1949-
Canto de Nada
Sorcery
1 103 Ming the Merciless
1104 The Song of Bullets
1100
1 101
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1106 LE LY HAYSLIP 1949I 107
1131
.from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
JAMAICA KINCAID 1949I 132
.from A Small Place
1137 HOLLY NEAR 19491138
1139 C.
Hay Una Mujer
D. WRIGHT 1949The Secret Life of Musical Instruments
1140 [Hole of holes]
I 140 Dear Prisoner,
I 139
1141
JULIA ALVAREZ 1950I 141
1142
1143
How I Learned to Sweep
On Not Shoplifting Louise Bogan's 1M B~ Estuaries
Making Up the Past
1145 FRANCES CHUNG 1950-1990
1146
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[Neon lights that warm no one. How long]
[Yo vivo en el barrio chino]
Double Ten (10/10 day)
1147 CAROLYN FORCH E 19501147
1148
The Colonel
The Garden Shukkei-en
1149 JORIE GRAHAM 1950I I 50
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1151
The Geese
I Was Taught Three
SAPPHIRE 1950I I 52
American Dreams
1157 THERESA HAK KYUNG CHA 1951-1982
I I 58
.from Dictee
1159 JOY HARJO 1951-
The Book of Myths
For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Whose Spirit Is Present Here and in the
Dappled Stars (for we remember the story and must tell it again so we all
may live)
I I 6 I Reconciliation
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1160
1162 LEANNE HOWE 1951I 163
1171
Choctalking on Other Realities
KATE RUSHIN 19511171
1174
The Black Back-Ups
The Tired Poem: Last Letter from a Typical Unemployed Black
Professional Woman
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1179
1179
Exile
So Much for Manana
The Latin Deli
1180 RITA DOVE 19521 1 81
1182
1183
Parsley
Dusting
Canary
1184 BELL HOOKS 19521 184
.from Bone Black
1189 CHERRIE MORAGA 19521189
1195
La Giiera
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE 19521195
1196
1197
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The Words Under the Words
Making a Fist
Arabic
For the SOOth Dead Palestinian, Ibtisarn Bozieh
1198 ANA CASTILLO 19531199
1200
1201
1975
The Antihero
LUCI TAPAHONSO 19531201
All the Colors of Sunset
1205 ELMAZ ABINADER 19541205
1206
1208
Dried Bowers
Preparing for Occupation
The Volcano
1208 LORNA DEE CERVANTES 19541209
1210
1211
1211
SANDRA CISNEROS 19541212
1221
Para un Revolucionario
Declaration on a Day of Little Inspiration
Crow
Never Marry a Mexican
LOUISE ERDRICH 19541221
1222
1223
Dear John Wayne
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
Jacklight
1224 AURORA LEVINS MORALES 19541224
1226
Sugar Poem
Tita's Poem
CONTENTS
1227 HELENA MARIA VIRAMONTES
1227
1231
1954-
The Moths
1954As Vulcan Falls from Heaven
Sestina for the End of the Twentieth Century
TERRY WOLVERTON
1231
1233
1955Fairy Tales and Something More
An Apology
Once Again
1234 MARJORIE AGOSIN
1234
1235
1236
1955A Portrait of the Self As Nation, 1990-1991
Blues on Yellow
1237 MARILYN MEl LiNG CHIN
1238
1242
1955Janis Joplin
1243 Between Language and Desire
1244 Tourism in the Late 20th Century
1242 SILVIA CURBELO
1242
1955The Hemisphere: Kuchuk Hanem
1245 KIMIKO HAHN
1245
1955Who's Irish?
1255 GISH JEN
1255
1955Why I Am a Danger to the Public
1263 BARBARA KINGSOLVER
1263
1955A Letter to Harvey Milk
1274 LESLEA NEWMAN
1274
1955Blue and White Lines after O 'Keeffe
Picture Bride
1284 CATHY SONG
1285
1289
1290 CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI
1290
1291
1293
1295
Indigo
Yuba City School
Leaving Yuba City
Skin
1956Above All, A Family Man
1296 ACHY OBEJAS
1297
1310 CAROLINA HOSPITAL
1310
1311
195 7Body As One As History
Into Such Assembly
MYUNG MI KIM
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1957-
Freedom
1956-
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1314 BEATRIZ RIVERA 19571314
Paloma
1326 ALICIA GASPAR DE ALBA 19581326
Bamba Basilica
1327 DIANA ABU-JABER 19591328
My Elizabeth
1339 CRISTINA GARCIA 19591340
Ines in the Kitchen
1343 DEBORAH MIRANDA 19611343
1346
Hunger
Indian Cartography
1346 SUSAN POWER 19611347
Angry Fish
1354 LOiS-ANN YAMANAKA 1961-
Tita: Boyfriends
Tita:Japs
1359 Tita: On Fat
1354
1357
1361
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER 19621361
1362
Early Cinema
"The female seer will burn upon this pyre"
1363 ANN PANCAKE 19631363
Crow Season
1368 SUZAN-LoRI PARKS 19641368
Pickling
1372 MOHJA KAHF 1967-
My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears
Affirmative Action Sonnet
1374 The Marvelous Women
1372
1373
1376 JHUMPA LAHIRI 19671376
A Temporary Matter
1387 TRACIE MORRIS ?1387
Writer's Delight
1389 MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO 19681390
1392
soul on ice
dead nigga blvd (pt. 1)
1394 EDWIDGE DANTICAT 19691395
Nineteen Thirty-Seven
CONTENTS
1402 NATHALIE HANDAL
1402
1402
1403
1969-
The Sigh
West Bank
The Warrior
1971Bus Story
The Love for a Mother Is a Tough, Tough Love
1403 MICHELLE TEA
1404
1405
1973exotic
broken and beirut
1407 SUHEIR HAM MAD
1407
1408
1975Dear Mr. President
1410 ALiX OLSON
141 0
1977House of Sharing
Qy.een Min Bi
1412 ISHLE YI PARK
1412
1414
1977Emancipation
1415 AIMEE PHAN
1415
1431
1443
1454
Index
Permissions
Editors
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