Wonders There

America
                   
Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,
And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,
Stealing my breath of life, I will confess
I love this cultured hell that tests my youth.
Her vigor flows like tides into my blood,
Giving me strength erect against her hate,
Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood.
Yet, as a rebel fronts a king in state,
I stand within her walls with not a shred
Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer.
Darkly I gaze into the days ahead,
And see her might and granite wonders there,
Beneath the touch of Time’s unerring hand,
Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand.



                                        ~ by Claude McKay

Memory Storage

The American Short Story (Perspective Films)

     “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Melville: Film and Text

     “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” by Fitzgerald: Film and Text

     “The Golden Honeymoon” by Lardner: Film and Text

     “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Porter: Film and Text

     “Paul’s Case” by Cather: Film and Text

     “Rappaccini's Daughter” by Hawthorne: Film and Text


Voices & Visions Film Series on American Poets
Elizabeth Bishop, Hart Crane, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Robert Lowell, 
Marianne Moore, Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams