Contents							xvii

	SHARON OOLDS (B. 1942) 					1470
		Rite of Passage 				1471
		The Victims 					1472

	TESS GALLAGHER (B. 1945) 				1473
		The Hug 					1473

	NIKKI GIOVANNI (B. 1943)	 			1475
		Nikki-Rosa 					1476
		Master Charge Blues				1477

	LOUISE GL†CK (B. 1943) 					1478
		The Drowned Children 				1479
		Gretel in Darkness 				1479
		Illuminations 					1480
		Terminal Resemblance 				1481

	YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA (B. 1947) 				1483
		Facing It 					1489

	JOY HARJO (B. 1951) 					1486
		Call It Fear 					1487
		White Bear 					1488
		Eagle Poem 					1489

	JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA (B. 1952) 				1490
		So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans 	1492
		Cloudy Day 					1493

	RITA DOVE (B. 1952) 					1495
		Daystar 					1496
		Adolescence-I 					1496
		Adolescence-II 					1497
		Straw Hat 					1497
		Missing 					1498

	JUDITH ORTIZ COFER (B. 1952) 				1499
		My Fatber in the Navy 				1499

	ALBERTO RêOS (B. 1952) 					1501
		Wet Camp 					1502
		Advice to a First Cousin 			1502

	DAVID MURA (B. 1952) 					1504
		An Argument: On 1942 				1504