Core List for 209
By Units
Unit
1 | Unit 2 | Unit 3

Unit
One
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1931 e.e. cummings "I sing of olaf"
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1945 Jarrell, "Ball Turret Gunner"
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1957 James Dickey, "The Performance"
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1969 SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Vonnegut
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1970 Denise Levertov "Advent"
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1972 James Dickey, "The Firebombing"
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1972 STICKS AND BONES by David Rabe
Unit
Two
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1955 Tennesse Williams, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
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1956 Ginsberg, "Howl" "America" "Sunflower Sutra"
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1958 Ferlingetti, [’In goya’s greatest scenes.
. ."]
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1960 Gregory Corso, "Marriage"
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1962 ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
by Ken Kesey
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1964 Theodore Roethke, "In a Dark Time"; "The
Lost Son"
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1965 Sylvia Plath, "Lady Lazarus"
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1973 Adrienne Rich, "Diving into the Wreck"
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197?? David Wagoner, "The Hero with One Face"
Unit Three
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1951 Carson McCullers, The Ballad of
the Sad Cafe
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1955 William Carlos Williams, "The Ivy Crown"
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1960 William Stafford, "A Ritual to Read to
One Another"
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1960 David Wagoner, "Going to Pieces
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1962 WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
by Edward Albee
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1964 Mark Strand "Reasons for Moving"
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1970 Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
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1973 Marge Piercy, "Song of the Fucked Duck",
"Bridging" "To Be of Use"
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1976 Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
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1992 Pearl Cleage, Flyin West