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INDEX“Negro Speaks of Rivers, The” (Langston Hughes) 69“Neighbour Rosicky” (Willa Cather) 58Neon Vernacular (Yusef Komunyakaa) 134Nepantla: Essays From the Land in the Middle(Sandra Cisneros) 148New American Poetry, 1945-1960 (Donald Allen, ed.) 86New and Selected Poems (Mary Oliver) 130“New Black Aesthetic, The” (Trey Ellis) 143New Criticism, The (John Crowe Ransom) 77New Life, A (Bernard Malamud) 104“New Poem, The” (Charles Wright) 89Next Year in Cuba (Gustavo Pérez Firmat) 152Nickel Mountain (John Gardner) 114Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (Jane Hirshfield) 129Nine Stories (J.D. Salinger) 1071984 (George Orwell) 551919 (John Dos Passos) 73Nobody Knows My Name (James Baldwin) 102Noon Wine (Katherine Anne Porter) 100Norris, Frank 53, 55Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, The(Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar) 90Notebook, 1967-68 (Robert Lowell) 82O Albany! (William Kennedy) 141Oates, Joyce Carol 97, 114, 140“O Black and Unknown Bards” (James Weldon Johnson) 59O’Connor, Flannery 100, 102-103, 115October Light (John Gardner) 112, 114Octopus, The (Frank Norris) 55Odets, Clifford 72, 78Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck) 74“Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” (W.E.B. Du Bois) 59Of Plymouth Plantation (William Bradford) 6O’Hara, Frank 88, 118, 132O’Hara, John 101-102“Old Ironsides” (Oliver Wendell Holmes) 33Old Man and the Sea, The (Ernest Hemingway) 71Old Money (Wendy Wasserstein) 140Old Neighborhood, The (David Mamet) 119Olds, Sharon 126Oleanna (David Mamet) 119Oliver, Mary 130-131Olsen, Tillie 147Olson, Charles 86Omensetter’s Luck (William Gass) 108“On Being Brought From Africa to America”(Phillis Wheatley) 25On Being Female, Black, and Free (Margaret Walker) 145On Boxing (Joyce Carol Oates) 114Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera (John Barth) 109One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey) 108O’Neill, Eugene 69, 77-78On Moral Fiction (John Gardner) 114On the Road (Jack Kerouac) 49, 87, 101, 107“Open Boat, The” (Stephen Crane) 54Opening of the American Mind, The (Lawrence Levine) 116O Pioneers! (Willa Cather) 58Oppenheimer, Joel 86Optimist’s Daughter, The (Eudora Welty) 100Organization Man, The (William Whyte) 101Ormond (Charles Brockden Brown) 22Orphan, The (David Rabe) 119Ortiz, Simon 91, 92, 125Orwell, George 55Our Nig (Harriet Wilson) 45Our Town (Thornton Wilder) 78“Outcasts of Poker Flat, The” (Bret Harte) 50“Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” (Walt Whitman) 31Outre-Mer (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) 33Oxherding Tale (Charles Johnson) 146Ozick, Cynthia 142Packard, Vance 101Packer, ZZ 145Paine, Thomas 19Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov) 105Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Katherine Anne Porter) 100Paley, Grace 142Palmer, Michael 95Papers on Art and Literature (Margaret Fuller) 34Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler) 146Paradise (Toni Morrison) 115Park City (Ann Beattie) 138Parker, Theodore 27Parks, Suzan-Lori 140Parts of a World (Wallace Stevens) 66Paterson (William Carlos Williams) 67, 75Patrimony: A True Story (Philip Roth) 111Pearl of Orr’s Island, The (Harriet Beecher Stowe) 50Pentimento (Lillian Hellman) 99Percy, Walker 112Perelman, Bob 95Pérez Family, The (Christine Bell) 153Perfect Recall (Ann Beattie) 138“Persimmons” (Li-Young Lee) 127“Peter Quince at the Clavier” (Wallace Stevens) 66Phillips, Jayne Anne 144Piano Lesson, The (August Wilson) 120Picture Bride (Cathy Song) 94Pictures of Fidelman (Bernard Malamud) 104Picturing Will (Beattie, Ann) 143Pigs in Heaven (Barbara Kingsolver) 149Pike, Zebulon 21Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Annie Dillard) 151“Pilot of Hatteras, The” (Philip Freneau) 21Pinsky, Robert 132-133Pioneers, The (James Fenimore Cooper) 23Plainsong (Kent Haruf) 146Plath, Sylvia 82-83, 85, 90172