This supplement includes Volume 1's extensive offering of Whitman and Dickinson selections and is available for packaging with The Heath Anthology, 4/e, Volume 2.

The fourth edition brings readers new full length works, including Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Amiri Baraka's Dutchman, and new sections on the Beat Movement and Vietnam conflict writing. Lesser-known authors continue to appear alongside canonical writers. New authors in the contemporary section include Dorothy Allison, Sherman Alexie, Jack Keroouac, Frank Chin, Jessica agedorn, Mario Suarez, Richard Rodrigues, Lawson Fusao Inada, Yusef Komurnyakan, James Merrill, Kimiko Hahn, and Karen Tei Yamashita.

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Product Description: Overview Unrivaled diversity and ease of use have made THE HEATH ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: VOLUME E: CONTEMPORARY PERIOD (1945 TO THE PRESENT), Seventh Edition, a best-selling text since 1989, when the first edition was published...read more