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"Appraisal" from Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale. Copyright © 1926 by Macmillan Publishing
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"The Mutes" from Denise Levertov: Poems 1960-1967. Copyright © 1964 by Denise Levertov
Goodman. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.

"By the North Gate" from By the North Gate by Joyce Carol Oates. Copyright © 1963 by Joyce Carol
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"Poem for Granville Ivanhoe Jordan: November 4, 1890-December 21, 1974" from Things that I Do
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"My Father in the Navy: A Childhood Memory" from Triple Crown by Judith Ortiz Cofer. Copyright
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"The Gilded Six Bits" by Zora Neale Hurston. Reprinted by permission of Lucy Ann Hurston.

"A Tender Man" from The Sea Birds Are Still Alive by Toni Cade Bambara. Copyright © 1974, 1976,
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"Parker's Back" from Everything that Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor. Copyright ©
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"When He's At His Most Brawling" from The Dog that Was Barking Yesterday by Patricia Goedicke.
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