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Index
Cover
HalfTitle
Title
Copyright
Contents
Teachers’ Note
Introduction
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JANE ALEXANDER “In Black Earth, Wisconsin”
BROOKE ASTOR “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
KEN AULEITA “Ode to the West Wind”
HAROLYN M. BLACKWELL “To Be Somebody”
MARTIN CHARNIN “Laughing Down Lonely Canyons”
MARIO CUOMO “Outwitted”
DAVID DINKINS “Stars”
E. L. DOCTOROW “A Blessing”
GERALDINE FERRARO “If”
ALLEN GINSBERG “Ode to the West Wind”
RUDOLPH GIULIANI “If I can stop one Heart from breaking”
RICHARD F. GREIN Excerpt from “Four Quartets”
DAVID HALBERSTAM Excerpt from “The Passing of Arthur”
SHELDON HARNICK “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”
BILL IRWIN “The Yachts”
PETER JENNINGS “Man with Wooden Leg Escapes Prison”
EDWARD I. KOCH “Annabel Lee”
KENNETH KOCH “The Dawn of Me”
JILL KREMENTZ “The Low Road”
ANGELA LANSBURY “Cuttin’ Rushes”
Yo-Yo E. MA “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
DAVID MAMET “The Dog”
JASON MCMANUS “I never saw a Moor”
JOAN S. MCMENAMIN “Life Is Mostly”
VED MEHTA “Dover Beach”
ISMAIL MERCHANT “Song”
RUTH W. MESSINGER “The Gift Outright”
SUSAN MINOT “When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be”
JOYCE CAROL OATES “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant”
RON PADGETT “A Step Away from Them”
HAROLD PRINCE “Credo”
ANNA QUINDLEN “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven”
DAVID READ “Holy Sonnet XIV” (“Batter my heart, three-personed God”)
RICHARD W. RILEY “Duty Was Joy”
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI “Get Yourself Drunk”
GENE SAKS “Does It Matter?”
DIANE SAWYER “If”
WHITNEY NORTH SEYMOUR JR. Excerpt from “Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood”
ALLY SHEEDY “On Stripping Bark from Myself”
BEVERLY SILLS “It Is Not the Critic Who Counts”
MARGARET CHASE SMITH “My Creed”
RONALD B. SOBEL “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
STEPHEN SONDHEIM “Come to the Edge”
LIV ULLMANN “Meditation #17” (“No Man is an Island”)
KURT VONNEGUT “The Angel that presided o’er my birth”
WENDY WASSERSTEIN Excerpt from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
PAUL WATKINS “Clouds”
ELIE WIESEL “From Tomorrow On, I Shall Be Sad”
ELIZABETH WINTHROP “Wild Geese”
TOM WOLFE Excerpt from “I’ve Been to a Marvelous Party”
Grade V Students
Contributors
Acknowledgments
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