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2396 	NORMAN MAILER (b. 1923)
	2398 	from The Armies of the Night
		Book I: History as a Novel: The Steps of the Pentagon
			from Part I: Thursday evening

2407 	JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987)
	2409 	Sonny's Blues
	2430 	Letter to My Nephew on the One-Hundredth Anniversary of the
		Emancipation

2432	FLANNERY O'CONNOR (1925-1964)
	2434 	A Good Man ls Hard to Find

2444 	ALLEN GINSBERG (192*1997)
	2446 	from Howl
	2451 	A Supermarket in California
	2452 	America

2454 	JOHN ASHBERY (b. 1927)
	2457 	The Painter
	2458 	These Lacustrine Cities
	2459 	Soonest Mended
	2461 	Syringa
	2463 	Landscapeople

2464 	JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980)
	2465 	Lament for My Brother on a Hayrake
	2466 	A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard's Shack
	2467 	At the Executed Murderer's Grave
	2469 	Autumn Begins in Martin's Ferry, Ohio
	2469 	Lightning Bugs Asleep in the Afternoon

2470 	PHILIP LEVINE (b. 1928)
	2471 	Coming Home
	2472 	They Feed They Lion
	2472 	You Can Have It

2474 	ANNE SEXTON (1928-1975)
	2475 	Her Kind
	2476	The Truth the Dead Know
	2476	Self in 1958
	2477	For My Lover, Returning to his Wife
	2479	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs