Aging and identity : introduction -- Monet refuses the operation / Lisel Mueller -- Next day / Randall Jarrell -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- The workhouse ward / Lady Gregory -- The space crone / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Mr. Flood's party / E.A. Robinson -- An old man's winter night / Robert Frost -- Provide, provide / Robert Frost -- A woman alone / Denise Levertov -- Virginia portrait / Sterling Brown -- Miss Rosie / Lucille Clifton -- A lady / Amy Lowell -- On a winter night / May Sarton -- How to be old / May Swenson -- Old / Anne Sexton -- Fortitude / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Ann Porter.
Aging and love: introduction -- The pleasures of old age / Michael Blumenthal -- Medicine / Alice Walker -- Now, before the end, I think / Edwin Honig -- The bean eaters / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Crazy Jane talks with the bishop / W.B. Yeats -- From Asphodel, that greeny flower / William Carlos Williams -- We are nighttime travelers / Ethan Canin -- Grandma's got a wig / Henry Dumas -- In retirement / Bernard Malamud -- Epstein / Philip Roth -- The linden tree / Ella Leffland -- Fallback / Philip Booth.
Aging and the family : introduction -- Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen -- Porte-Cochere / Peter Taylor -- Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor -- The Jewbird / Bernard Malamud -- Maggie of the Green Bottles / Toni Cade Bambara -- From The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan -- Grandfather in the old men's home / W.S. Merwin -- My father-in-law's contract / Peter Harris -- Stroke / Susan Irene Rea -- Grandmother and grandson / W.S. Merwin -- A conversation with my father / Grace Paley -- The sandbox / Edward Albee -- The goth year / Denise Levertov -- The stroke / Rita Dove -- Strokes / William Stafford -- Grandmother's stroke / Stephen Dunn -- Sequel / L.J. Schneiderman -- Appropriate affect / Sue Miller -- Spelling / Alice Munro.
Aging and the community : introduction -- from Emperor of the air / Ethan Canin -- The very old / Ted Kooser -- Near the old people's home / Howard Nemerov -- He makes a house call / John Stone -- Ancient gentility / William Carlos Williams -- To hell with dying / Alice Walker -- Toenails / Richard Selzer -- Misery / Anton Chekhov -- A visit of charity / Eudora Welty -- Dillinger in Hollywood / John Sayles -- Idiots first / Bernard Malamud -- What you hear from 'em? / Peter Taylor -- Old Doc Rivers / William Carlos Williams -- Leaving the yellow house / Saul Bellow -- The black and white / Harold Pinter.
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