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INDEXPlatitudes (Trey Ellis) 143Playing in the Dark (Toni Morrison) 115Pnin (Vladimir Nabokov) 105Poe, Edgar Allan 14, 22, 27, 32, 35, 36, 40-42, 113Poems 1957-1967 (James Dickey) 85“Poet, The” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 26, 31Poisonwood Bible, The (Barbara Kingsolver) 149“Political Litany, A” (Philip Freneau) 20Poor Richard’s Almanack (Benjamin Franklin) 16“Poppies” (Mary Oliver) 131Porter, Katherine Anne 97, 99-100, 103Portnoy’s Complaint (Philip Roth) 110Portrait of a Lady, The (Henry James) 52Possessing the Secret Joy (Alice Walker) 116Pound, Ezra 60, 63, 65, 66, 67, 71, 89, 90Power (Linda Hogan) 148Power Elite, The (C. Wright Mills) 101Powers, Richard 137, 146“Premature Burial, The” (Edgar Allan Poe) 41Price, Reynolds 112Price, The (Arthur Miller) 98Pricksongs & Descants (Robert Coover) 108Princess Casamassima, The (Henry James) 52Problems (John Updike) 106Promise of Rest, The (Reynolds Price) 112Proulx, Annie 141Public Burning, The (Robert Coover) 108, 112“Purloined Letter, The” (Edgar Allan Poe) 41Puttermesser Papers, The (Cynthia Ozick) 142Pynchon, Thomas 97, 105, 108-109, 110, 113, 138, 141, 146, 150Quasha, George 95Rabbit, Run (John Updike) 106Rabbit at Rest (John Updike) 106Rabbit Is Rich (John Updike) 106Rabbit Redux (John Updike) 106Rabbit Remembered (John Updike) 106Rabe, David 119Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (Tom Wolfe) 108Ragtime (E.L. Doctorow) 112Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (J.D. Salinger) 107Raisin in the Sun, A (Lorraine Hansberry) 101Ralph Waldo Emerson (Oliver Wendell Holmes) 33Ransom, John Crowe 76, 77, 80Ravelstein (Saul Bellow) 103“Raven, The” (Edgar Allan Poe) 41Reading Lolita in Teheran (Azar Nafisi) 136Reasons To Live (Amy Hempel) 138Reason Why, The (Arthur Miller) 99Red Badge of Courage, The (Stephen Crane) 54Redeemed Captive, The (John Williams) 9Red Tent, The (Anita Diamant) 140“Red Wheelbarrow, The” (William Carlos Williams) 66Reed, Ishmael 94, 115, 145, 150Region Not Home, A (James Alan McPherson) 145Rembrandt’s Hat (Bernard Malamud) 104Reservations Blues (Sherman Alexie) 152Resurrection, The (John Gardner) 114Rexroth, Kenneth 86, 87Rhys, Jean 152Rice, Anne 136Rich, Adrienne 81, 82, 85-86, 116“Richard Cory” (Edwin Arlington Robinson) 57Richards, Amy 137Richman, Robert 96Riesman, David 101Right Here, Right Now (Trey Ellis) 143Right Stuff, The (Tom Wolfe) 108Rios, Alberto 91, 92, 124“Rip Van Winkle” (Washington Irving) 22Rise of Silas Lapham, The (William Dean Howells) 51Rituals of Survival (Nicholasa Mohr) 153“River of Bees, The” (W.S. Merwin) 122Road Home, The (Jim Harrison) 147Road to Wellville, The (T. Coraghessan Boyle) 151Roan Stallion (Robinson Jeffers) 68Roberts, Nora 136Robinson, Edwin Arlington 29, 57Robinson, Marilynne 151Rock Garden, The (Sam Shepard) 118Rock Springs (Richard Ford) 138Rodriguez, Luis 151Rodriguez, Richard 151Roethke, Theodore 82, 84Rogers, Pattiann 130Roger’s Version (John Updike) 106“Roofwalker, The” (Adrienne Rich) 85Rose (Li-Young Lee) 127Roth, Philip 101, 110-111, 116Rowlandson, Mary 9-10Rowson, Susanna 25Rush, Norman 150Russo, Richard 140S. (John Updike) 106Sabbatical: A Romance (John Barth) 109Sacred Wood, The (T.S. Eliot) 64Sailing Alone Around the Room (Billy Collins) 132Salinas, Luis Omar 92Salinger, J.D. 101, 106-107Same Door, The (John Updike) 106Sandburg, Carl 56Santos, Bienvenido 154Scalapino, Leslie 122Scarlet Letter, The (Nathaniel Hawthorne) 8, 36, 37, 154Scent of Apples (Bienvenido Santos) 154Schnackenberg, Gjertrud 90, 96, 132Schwerner, Armand 95Scoundrel Time (Lillian Hellman) 99173