Bridges Literature Across Cultures

Preface. CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FICTION Yasunari Kawabata, Up in the Tree James Joyce, Araby Jamaica Kincaid, Girl David Leavitt, Gravity Doris Lessing, Flight R.K. Narayan, Mother and Son Grace Paley, A Conversation with My Father Amy Tan, Two Kinds. POETRY Margaret Atwood, Game After Supper Ulli Beir, Praise-Names of Twins (from the Yoruba) John Berryman, The Ball Poem Elizabeth Bishop, Sestina Anne Bradstreet, Before the Birth of One of Her Children/In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Gwendolyn Brooks, A Song in the Front Yard Raymond Carver, Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year Cho Chi-Hun, Ancient Temple Sandra Cisneros, His Story Lucille Clifton, Forgiving My Father Emily Dickinson, From All the Jails Rita Dove, Fifth Grade Autobiography Nikki Giovanni, Knoxville, Tennessee/Mothers Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays Langston Hughes, Mother to Son Ben Jonson, On My First Daughter/On My First Son D.H. Lawrence, Piano Audre Lorde, Oya Janice Mirikitani, Sing With Your Body Gabriela Mistral, Tell Me, Mother David Mura, Grandfather and Grandmother in Love Simon J. Ortiz, Speaking Sylvia Plath, Daddy Alexander Pushkin, To My Old Nurse Theodore Roethke, My Pappa's Waltz Muriel Rukeyser, Myth Sonia Sanchez, Poem at Thirty Gary Snyder, Not Leaving the House Gary Soto, Learning to Bargain Wallace Stevens, The Irish Cliffs of Moher Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill Joyce Carol Thomas, Black Child Cesar Vellejo, To My Brother Miguel Gerald Vizenor, Family Photograph Margaret Walker, Lineage Walt Whitman, There Was a Child Went Forth William Carlos Williams, Danse Russe James Wright, Mutterings Over the Crib of a Deaf Child Judith Wright, To Another Housewife DRAMA Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun Lanston Hughes, Soul Gone Home David Henry Hwang, Family Devotions WOMEN AND MEN FICTION Kay Boyle, Astronomer's Wife Anton Chekhov, The Lady With the Pet Dog Kate Chopin, A Respectable Woman Isak Dinesen, The Blue Jar Louise Erdrich, Snares William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily Yussef Idriss, A House of Flesh Alice Munro, The Found Boat Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gimpel the Fool Alice Walker, Roselily POETRY Anna Akhmatova, Lot's Wife Al-Tutili, Seville Paula Gunn Allen, Womanwork Maya Angelou, To Husband Yehuda Amichai, The Sweet Breakdown of Abigail Margaret Atwood, Against Still Life Ingebor Bachmann, The Great Freight Aphra Behn, The Defiance Louise Bogan, Cassandra William Stanley Braithwaite, The Watchers Gwendolyn Brooks, The Bean Eaters Elizabeth Barrett Browning, If Thou Must Love Me, Let It Be For Naught Robert Browning, My Last Duchess George Gordon, Lord Byron, She Walks in Beauty So Chongju, Poetics Emily Dickinson, She Rose to His Requirement John Donne, Wild Nights--Wild Nights Rita Dove, The Bait Alan Dugan, Adolescence--II T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Forugh Farrokhzad, Born Again Joy Harjo, Fishing Seamus Heany, Sunlight Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Henry Howard, To His Lady Lawson Fusado Inada, Nightsong in Asian America Ben Jonson, To Celia June Jordan, The Wedding Maxine Kumin, Together Denise Levertov, About Marriage/The Ache of Marriage Shirley Lim, Ah Mah Amy Lowell, The Taxi Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress Annette M'Baye, Silhouette Josephine Miles, Housewife Gabriella Mistral, To My Husband Nancy Morejon, Central Park Some People (3 P.M) Papyrus Harris, Songs of Delight Pepi I Pyramid, Utterance 432 Octavio Paz, Engaged Katherine Philips, Against Love Sylvia Plath, The Applicant Ezra Pound, A Virginal/The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter[read more]