The Portable western reader

The Viking portable library

House made of the dawn / The woman and the horse / The girl who married the bear / Coyote and Eagle go to the Land of the Dead / How the ancient Peigans lived / From: Fools crow / James Welch -- From: Ghost-dance religion and the Sioux outbreak of 1890 / From: Mean spirit / The last running / Fleur

Erdrich -- Deer dancer / Song of the redwood-tree / Buffalo Bill's / Carrion Spring / The man who shot Liberty Valance / A raid on the oyster pirates

Fools crow

Fools crow

Contemporary American fiction

Contemporary American fiction.

Talking leaves : contemporary Native American short stories

Deer woman / Turtle lake / Swimming upstream / Going home / A visit from Reverend Tileston / Queen of diamonds / The old marriage / After Celilo / The humming of stars and bees and waves / The bingo van / The way it was / Aunt Parnetta's electric blisters / High cotton / The flood. Northern lights / Taking care of business / Aunt Moon's young man / The pebble people / Wet moccasins / A seat in the garden / Killing the bear

She is beautiful in her whole being / Crow's sun / Never quite a Hollywood star / The Indian basket. It's all in how you say it / How I got to be queen / Dancer / Snatched away / from Chayenne revenge / The Baron of Patronia. China Browne / Bicenti / From Fools crow / Summer girl / Diamond Island: Alcatraz / White-out / Homecooking

The Before Columbus Foundation fiction anthology : selections from the American Book Awards, 1980-1990

ocean of American literature / Chapters 7 and 8 from Fools crow / Excerpt from Not by the sword / North Albany : crucible for a childhood from O'Albany! / Saint Marie from Love Medicine / Lil' Yokohama from Yokohama, California / Swimming to the top of the rain from Homemade Love / Gravesend Bay from the Boys of Bensonhurst: Stories / I'll crack your head Kotsun from All I Asking for Is My Body / Chapter 14 from Lonely Crusade / Epithalamium from Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories / Mulberry's notebook from Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China / Excerpts from Ceremony / Chapters 1 and 2 from Praisesong for the Widow / Chaper 1 from !Click song / Immigration blues from Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories / Excerpt from Smiles on Washington Square (a love story of sorts) / only real day from the Chinaman Pacific & Frisco / Chapter 2 from 'Sippi / Chapter 3 from The Right thing to do / Recitatif / Chapter 5 from Travelling light / Chapters 1 and 2 from Mama / Excerpts from The House on Mango Street / Excerpts from Pet food and tropical Apparitions / Chapters 4, 5, and 6 from The Underground Woman / Excerpt from chapter 1, The book of Jamaica / Chapter 10 from Days Without Weather / Excerpt from The Ultraviolet Sky / Excerpt from chapter 1, The Salt Eaters / Excerpts from Griever : an American Monkey King in China

Reading Native American literature

The Penguin anthology of twentieth-century American poetry

Penguin anthology of 20th century American poetry

Spoon River anthology: Hill ; Fiddler Jones ; Petit, the poet / Miniver Cheevy ; Mr. Flood's party / Creation / Poet ; Life's tragedy / Death of the hired man ; Mending wall ; Birches ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; Tree at my window ; Directive / Patterns / Susie Asado ; Tender buttons: A box ; A plate / I sit and sew / Grass ; Cahoots / Peter Quince at the Clavier ; Disillusionment of ten o'clock ; Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird ; Anecdote of the jar ; Emperor of ice-cream ; Of mere being / Fragment / Tract ; Danse Russe ; Red wheelbarrow ; Yachts ; Asphodel, that greeny flower Moonlight ; There will come soft rains

Jewel stairs' grievance ; River-merchants' wife : a letter ; In a station of the metro ; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ; Canto LXXXI: "Yet/Ere the season died a-cold") / Sea rose ; Helen ; Walls do not fall: ("An incident here and there") ; Hermetic definition: "Red rose and a beggar" : ("Why did you come") ; ("Take me anywhere--") ; ("Venice--Venus?") / Gale in April ; Shine, perishing republic ; Clouds at evening ; Credo / Fish ; Poetry ; Poetry / Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; Preludes ; Waste land / If we must die ; Harlem dancer / Ars poetica / First fig ; Recuerdo / in Just- ; Buffalo Bill's ; Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls ; next to of course god america i ; somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond ; r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r / Reapers ; November cotton flower ; Portrait in Georgia / Medusa ; New moon / Dark symphony ; Harlem gallery: Psi ("Black boy, / let me get up from the white man's table--") / Bridge: Proem : to Brooklyn Bridge ; II: Powhatan's daughter: The river / Silent poem

Negro speaks of rivers ; I, too ; Dream boogie ; Harlem / Incident ; To John Keats, poet, at spring time ; Yet do I marvel ; From the dark tower / Father and son ; Portrait ; Touch me / Musée des Beaux Arts ; Epitaph on a tyrant / My papa's waltz ; Waking ; In a dark time / The Maximus poems : I, Maximus of Gloucester, to you ; Distances / Fish ; Sestina ; First death in Nova Scotia ; Visits to St. Elizabeths ; One art / Mourning poem for the queen of Sunday ; Those winter Sundays ; Frederick Douglass ; Middle passage / Effort at speech between two people ; Then I saw what the calling was ; Poem as mask / Heavy bear who goes with me / The dream songs: ("Filling her compact & delicious body") ; ("Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so") ; ("There sat down, once") ; ("This world is gradually becoming a place") ; Henry's understanding / 90 north ; Death of the ball turret gunner ; Woman at the Washington Zoo ; Next day / For my daughter / Different image / Traveling through the dark ; At the bomb testing site

Scars / For my people / Mother ; Song in the front yard ; Bean eaters ; Lovers of the poor ; We real cool ; Blackstone rangers / "To speak of woe that is in marriage" ; Skunk hour ; For the Union dead / Often I am permitted to return to a meadow ; My mother would be a falconress / Robert Duncan -- Populist manifesto / Parents / Because you asked about the line between prose and poetry / Hyacinth garden in Brooklyn ; August 1945 / Love calls us to the things of this world ; Cottage Street, 1953 ; Writer / Sheep child / Love song : I and thou / "More light! More light!" / Degrees of gray in Philipsburg ; Freaks at Spurgin Road Field / Poem unwritten ; Caedmon ; Swan in falling snow / American poetry / Muse of water / Fresh air ; Permanently

Morning swim ; How it is / Behaving like a Jew ; Dancing ; Another insane devotion / City limits ; Corsons Inlet / Snowfall in the afternoon ; Driving to town late to mail a letter ; Waking from sleep / Flower ; I know a man ; Language ; Rain ; Bresson's movies / Victor dog / Steps ; Poem ("Lana Turner has collapsed!") ; Day Lady died / Some trees ; Self-portrait in a convex mirror ; What is poetry / Bear ; After making love we hear footsteps ; Saint Francis and the sow / Air ; For the anniversary of my death ; Yesterday ; Chord / Blessing ; Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio ; Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota ; In response to a rumor that the oldest whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia has been condemned / My son my executioner ; Digging / Animals are passing from our lives ; They feed they lion ; You can have it ; Simple truth / Her kind ; Abortion ; Wanting to die ; In celebration of my uterus ; Rowing / Orion ; Planetarium ; Valediction forbidding mourning ; Twenty-one love poems: ("The rules break like a thermometer--")

Marriage / Hay for the horses ; Riprap ; Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout / Far cry from Africa ; Sea grapes ; The Schooner : Flight After the storm : "There's a fresh light that follows--") ; Light of the world ; Omeros: ("I sang of quiet Achille, Afolabe's son--") / Let me tell you / Idea of ancestry / Preface to a twenty volume suicide note ; Agony. As now. ; SOS ; Black art / Wrong train ; Final sonnet / Power / poem at thirty / Prediction ; Night, the porch / Stone is nobody's / Singapore ; Summer day / Reunion ; Dead color ; California dreaming / homage to my hips ; [at last we killed the roaches] ; death of fred clifton ; to my last period / Poem about my rights / 1968

From my window ; Blades / Mechanic / Dear John, dear Coltrane ; Last affair : Bessie's blues song ; Grandfather ; Nightmare begins responsibility / Stone ; Fork ; Classic ballroom dances / Grandmother / Ellen West / Spring letter ; Two or three wishes / Allegory of the cave ; Tucson / History of my heart ; Questions ; Samurai song / Christmas comes to Moccasin Flat / Introduction to poetry ; Dead / Allen Ginsberg ; Weakness / How to like it ; Lullaby / Song ; Pornographer ; Return of Robinson Jeffers / My life: A name trimmed with colored ribbons / Machinist, teaching his daughter to play the piano / But he was cool, or, He even stopped for green lights ; Poem to complement other poems / In memory of the Utah stars ; The accompanist

Language of the brag ; Lifting / Barbed wire / Black silk ; Under stars / I do not / Lost pilot / Elizabeth's war with the Christmas bear ; Funeral / August, Los Angeles, lullaby / Turtle ; Bestiary / Childhood ideogram ; Winter stars / Looking for Judas / People of the other village / Ballad of Aunt Geneva ; Star-fix / Albany / Cuba, 1962 ; Kid ; Finished / Thanks ; Tu Do Street ; Facing it ; Nude interrogation / Song of the Andoumboulou : 21 / Gathering the bones together ; Two lines from the Brothers Grimm ; Origin of the marble forest / Reaching Yellow River / Away

Language lesson 1976 ; What he thought / In cold storm light / Calypso / Latin & soul / Miami heart / Iris / Why Ralph refuses to dance ; Girl friend poem #3 ; Crescent / Taking off my clothes / San Sepolcro / What the living do / She had some horses ; My house is the red earth / Legend / Begotten ; We were simply talking / Imagining their own hymns ; Song / Meeting the British ; Errata ; Throwback / Quinceañera / Parsley ; Daystar ; After reading Mickey in the night kitchen for the third time before bed ; Claudette Colvin goes to work / Our calling / Thinking of Galileo ; Hatred

Unholy sonnet 13 / Traveling onion ; Arabic ; Wedding cake / Nani ; England finally, like my mother always said we would / Nocturne : blue waves ; Unfinished / Field poem ; Oranges ; Black hair / Yellow stars and ice ; Forest / Brilliance ; Esta noche ; Bill's story / Black Nikes / Alcohol / To my brother ; "Love of my flesh, living death" / My wicked wicked ways ; Little clown, my heart / Jack Johnson does the eagle rock ; Crows in a strong wind ; I'm a fool to love you / Indian boarding school : the runaways / Spooning / How I got that name ; Composed near the Bay Bridge Survivor / Youngest daughter / Another reluctance ; Insect / Gift ; Eating together

Our lady ; As from a quiver of arrows / Bag of mice ; Cartoon physics, part 1 / Venus Hottentot ; Affirmative action blues Equinox / White elephants: Million balconies ; Train windows / What the orphan inherits ; Powwow at the end of the world / Hot combs ; Amateur fighter ; Flounder / Tantrum / Spare / Postfeminism ; Your one good dress / Quivira city limits ; Everywhere is out of town ; Whatever you want / At Pegasus ; Lady sings the blues