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	2811		Cultural Portfolio: Who Is an American Writer?

	2814 	VIADIMIR NABOKOV (1899-1975)
	2815		Terra Incognita

	2820 	ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER (1904-1991)
	2821 		Escape from Civilization

	2825 	CZESMLAW MILOSZ (b. 1911)
	2825 		To Robinson Jeffers

	2827 	LOUIS (ASTON MARANTZ) SIMPSON (b. 1923)
	2827 		To the Western World
	2828 		American Poetry

	2828 	DEREK WALCOTT (b. 1930)
	2829 		A Far Cly from Africa
	2829 		Preparing for Exile
	2830 		Old New England

	2831 	MARIA IRENE FORNES (b. 1930)
	2831 		Sarita
			Scenes 13-16

	2834 	BHAMTI MUKHERJEE (b. 1940)
	2835 		Happiness

	2840 	JOSEPH BRODSIW (1940-1996)
	2841 		Letters from the Ming Dynasty
	2841 		May 24, 1980

	2842 	JAMAICA KINCAID (b. 1949)
	2843 		Girl


Acknowledgments, 2845
Index of Authors, Titles, First lines of poetry 2851