Contents xxi
MONTAGE OF A DREAM DEFERRED
Dream Boogie 1607
Harlem 1607
Feet Live Their Own Life 1608
RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960) 1610
Black Boy
[A Five Dollar Fight] 1611
Approaching a Millennium: 1945 to the Present 1619
DRAMA AT MIDCENTURY
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911-1983) 1631
The Glass Menagerie 1632
POETRY AT MIDCENTURY
THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963) 1674
Open House 1675
Cuttings (later) 1676
My Papa's Waltz 1676
Night Crow 1677
Elegy for Jane 1677
The Waking 1677
I Knew a Woman 1678
The Far Field 1679
Wish for a Young Wife 1681
The Pike 1681
In a Dark Time 1682
ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979) 1682
The Fish 1683
At the Fishhouses 1685
Questions of Travel 1686
Sestina 1688
In the Waiting Room 1689
One Art 1691
North Haven 1691
JOHN BERRYMAN (1914-1972) 1692
THE DREAM SONGS
1: [Huffy Henry hid the day] 1693
4: [Filling her compact & delicious body] 1694
14: [Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.] 1694