Contents xii
MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972) 1248
To a Steam Roller 1249
The Fish 1249
Poetry 1250
No Swan So Fine 1251
The Student 1252
The Pangolin 1253
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing 1256
In Distrust of Merits 1257
COUNTƒE CULLEN (1903-1946) 1258
Yet Do I Marvel 1259
For a Lady I Know 1260
Incident 1260
From the Dark Tower 1260
A Brown Girl Dead 1261
Heritage 1261
Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song 1264
JEAN TOOMER (1894-1967) 1265
Blood-Burning Moon 1266
ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891-1960) 1272
The Gilded Six-Bits 1273
THOMAS WOLFE (1900-1938) 1281
Only the Dead Know Brooklyn 1283
The Far and the Near 1286
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940) 1289
Winter Dreams 1290
Babylon Revisited 1306
ERNEST HEMINGwAY (1899-1961) 1320
Big Two-Hearted River 1322