Contents							xviii

LOUISE GL†CK (1943-	)					1754
Hesitate to Call						1754
The Chicago Train						1755
The Edge							1755
My Neighbor in the Mirror					1755
Thanksgiving							1756
Mock Orange							1756
The Reproach							1757
Celestial Music							1758
Vespers								1759
Field Flowers							1760


JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987)					1760
Sonny's Blues							1761


RANNERV O'CONNOR (1925-1964)					1783
A Good Man ls Hard to Find					1784
Good Country People						1795


JOHN UPDIKE (1932-	)					1809
Flight								1811


PHILIP ROTH (1933-	)					1822
The Conversion of the Jews					1823


BERNARD MALAMUD (1914-1986)					1833
The Magic Barrel						1834


TILLIE OLSEN (1913-	)					1846
I Stand Here Ironing						1847

TOMēS RIVERA (1935-1984)					1852
. . . And the Earth Did Not Part				1853