Glencoe World History

Unit 6: Toward a Global Civilization, 1945–Present

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#2 Memory by Victor Hernandez Cruz
Address Upon Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature by William Faulkner
from All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou
Ambush by Tim O'Brien
from An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
American History by Judith Ortiz Cofer
And of Clay Are We Created by Isabel Allende
The Angry Winter by Loren Eiseley
Answer by Bei Dao
Appetizer by Robert H. Abel
apprenticeship 1978 by Evangelina Vigil-Pinon
As It Is with Strangers by Susan Beth Pfeffer
B. Wordsworth by V.S. Naipaul
The Base Stealer by Robert Francis
The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant by W. D. Wetherell
The Beautiful Changes by Richard Wilbur
Bishop Berkeley or Mariana of the Universe by Liliana Heker
The Black Snake by Mary Oliver
A Blessing by James Wright
Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird by Toni Cade Bambara
Bones by Sadru Kassam
Bread by Margaret Atwood
A Bus Along St. Clair: December by Margaret Atwood
The Car We Had to Push by James Thurber
Catch the Moon by Judith Ortiz Cofer
The Censors by Luisa Valenzuela
Chee's Daughter by Juanita Platero and Siyowin Miller
Chief Sekoto Holds Court by Bessie Head
The Child Is the Master by Robert Horn
Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Alice Walker
Civil Peace by Chinua Achebe
Civilian and Soldier by Wole Soyinka
Clouds on the Sea by Ruth Dallas
Colombia's Mortal Agony by George Russell
Constantly risking absurdity by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket by Jack Finney
Counting the Beats by Robert Graves
Day of the Butterfly by Alice Munro
Dead Men's Path by Chinua Achebe
Defining the Grateful Gesture by Yvonne Sapia
Delicious Death by Alma Luz Villanueva
Desmet, Idaho, March 1969 by Janet Campbell Hale
Dichos by Américo Paredes
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
El Olvido (Segun las Madres) by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Elena by Pat Mora
Embroidering: A Response to "Somnad" by Carl Larsson by Rita Magdaleno
Emily Dickinson by Lucha Corpi
Encounter by Czeslaw Milosz
The Explorer by Gwendolyn Brooks
Fable by Octavio Paz
Father's Bedroom by Robert Lowell
Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas
Field Trip by Naomi Shihab Nye
First Lesson by Phillip Booth
Fishing by Joy Harjo
The Flat of the Land by Diana García
The Floral Apron by Marilyn Chin
Follower by Seamus Heaney
For Georgia O'Keeffe by Pat Mora
For Poets by Al Young
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower by Dylan Thomas
Foreign Ways by Diana Chang
Frederick Douglass by Robert Hayden
Freeway 280 by Lorna Dee Cervantes
From A Cat's Garden of Verses: by Robert Louis Stevenson's Cat by Henry Beard
The Funeral by Gordon Parks
Game by Donald Barthelme
Games at Twilight by Anita Desai
Gaston by William Saroyan
Geometry by Rita Dove
The Gift in Wartime by Tran Mong Tu
"Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning" by Alice Walker
Half a Day by Naguib Mahfouz
A Handful of Dates by Tayed Salih
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World by Gabrial García Márquez
Heaven by Cathy Song
He-y, Come on Ou-t! by Shinichi Hoshi
Horses by Pablo Neruda
Horses Graze by Gwendolyn Brooks
The House/La Casa by Maria Herrera-Sobek
A House for Us by Etidal Osman
I Am Offering This Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca
I Was a Skinny Tomboy Kid by Alma Luz Villanueva
Island by Albert Wendt
Islands by Nicholas Hasluck
I've Seen the Promised Land by Martin Luther King Jr.
from Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
from Kaffir Boy in America by Mark Mathabane
Kitchens by Aurora Levins Morales
The Leap by Louise Erdrich
let my spirit fly in time by Sandra María Esteves
Let's Sweat! by Nikki Giovanni
Like the Sun by R. K. Narayan
Lineage by Margaret Walker
Living Well. Living Good. by Maya Angelou
Lot's Wife by Wislawa Szymborska
Love Orange by Olive Senior
Lullaby by Leslie Marmon Silko
Making a Fist by Naomi Shihab Nye
Mammie's Form at the Post Office by E. A. Markham
Marked by Carmen Tafolla
from A Match to the Heart by Gretel Ehrlich
The Meadow Mouse by Theodore Roethke
A Mild Attack of Locusts by Doris Lessing
Mirror by Sylvia Plath
Miss Rosie by Lucille Clifton
Missing You by Shu Ting
Moana by Kauraka Kauraka
Most Satisfied by Snow by Diana Chang
A Motto from Poets: Leave Stone by Roberto Fernández Retamar
Municipal Gum by Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Musée des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden
Mushrooms by Margaret Atwood
My Country by Zindziswa Mandela
My Mother Combs My Hair by Chita Banerjee Divakaruni
My Mother Pieced Quilts by Teresa Palomo Acosta
My Poetry/Mi Poesía by María Herrera-Sobek
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
The Names of Women by Louise Erdich
Naming Myself by Barbara Kingsolver
Naming of Parts by Henry Reed
from Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
Nineteen Thirty-Seven by Edwidge Danticat
The Nonrevolutionaries by Yu-Wol Chong-Nyon
Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith
Ode to My Socks by Pablo Neruda
Of Dry Goods and Black Bow Ties by Yoshiko Uchida
from Omeros by Derek Walcott
from On Keeping a Notebook by Joan Didion
One Perfect Rose by Dorothy Parker
Only Daughter by Sandra Cisneros
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
People Who Want to Sue Me by Evelyn Waugh
A Personal Opinion About Gray by Shuntaro Tanikawa
Pizza in Warsaw, Torte in Prague by Slavenka Drakulic
A Poet's Job by Alma Luz Villanueva
The Portrait by Tomás Rivera
Prayer to the Pacific by Leslie Marmon Silko
Pretty by Stevie Smith
Prime Time by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses by Bessie Head
Prologue by Edward Field
Purchase by Naomi Long Madgett
Rain Music by Longhang Nguyen
Rainforest by Judith Wright
The Reading by Gabriel Gbadamosi
Remember by Joy Harjo
The Return by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Riding the Elevator into the Sky by Anne Sexton
River Light by Yasushi Inoue
Rules of the Game by Amy Tan
Salvador Late or Early by Sandra Cisneros
Scanning the Heavens for Signs of Life by William J. Broad
Se me enchina el cuerpo al oír tu cuento by Norma Elia Cantú
The Second Tree from the Corner by E. B. White
The Secret by Denise Levertov
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber
The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke
A Shocking Accident by Graham Greene
Simile by N. Scott Momaday
Snow by Julia Alvarez
Son by John Updike
Song For My Name by Linda Hogan
Song of Peace by Hwang Tonggyu
Sonnet LX by Pablo Neruda
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
The Space by Gary Soto
Speaking by Simon J. Ortiz
Spring over the City by Anne Hébert
from Stay Alive, My Son by Pin Yathay
from Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Luther King Jr.
The Sun Witness by Nurunnessa Choudhury
Sweet Potato Pie by Eugenia Collier
A Swimming Lesson by Jewelle L. Gomez
Taaroa by Anonymous
from Tales of the Islands by Derek Walcott
Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka
That's All by Harold Pinter
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden
Thoughts of Hanoi by Nguyen Thi Vinh
Thoughts on the African-American Novel by Toni Morrison
Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing
Tía Chucha by Luois Rodriguez
Tiger Year by Laura Iwasaki
Time by Gabriela Mistral
To the Foot from Its Child by Pablo Neruda
The Train from Rhodesia by Nadine Gordimer
Traveling Through the Dark by William Stafford
from Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
The Trojans by Constantine Cavafy
The Tucson Zoo by Lewis Thomas
Two Kinds by Amy Tan
Two Sheep by Janet Frame
The Universe by May Swenson
Village People by Bessie Head
Visit to a Small Planet by Gore Vidal
The Voter by Chinua Achebe
The Wagon by Khalida Asghar
A Walk to the Jetty: from Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Walking by Linda Hogan
Wanderer by Joan Fallert
from The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
We Are Many by Pablo Neruda
Weaver by Sandra Maria Esteves
The Weed by Amrita Pritam
The Welder by Cherrie Moraga
What I Expected by Stephen Spender
What Is and Ain't Grammatical Dave Barry
When Greek Meets Greek by Samuel Selvon
from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: from Fathers and Daughters by Le Ly Hayslip
Where Are Those Songs? by Micere Githae Mugo
who are you, little i by E. E. Cummings
Wind by Ted Hughes
The Winner by Barbara Kimenye
With All Flags Flying by Anne Tyler
from The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be by Nikki Giovanni
The World, My Friends, My Enemies, You, and the Earth by Nazim Hikmet
You Are Now Entering the Human Heart by Janet Frame
You Will Forget by Chenjerai Hove