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Introduction
Constantly risking absurdity / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Starry Night / Anne Sexton
Those Winter Sundays / Robert Hayden
Morning Song / Sylvia Plath
The Secret / Denise Levertov
House Guest / Elizabeth Bishop
The Slump / John Updike
Journey / Joyce Carol Oates
Inaugural Address / John F. Kennedy
On the Mall / Joan Didion
Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden
For the Last Wolverine / James Dickey
from Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone / James Baldwin