We have read and discussed the lives and works of quite a few American poets/writers in this first unit.  Choose one that — for you — has been the most enjoyable, the one that you might be tempted to return to for an additional helping of after we have moved down the buffet line of American literature?  In a brief paragraph describe/explain your selection.

An interest and respect for multicultual experience is a characteristic of postmodernism.

In the midst of this postwar era of prosperity, Allen Ginsberg composed his great poem __________________ in which he lambasted the nation’s conformist culture for destroying its best andbrightest citizens.

In Amy Tan’s “Half and Half,” according to Rose what is the composition of faith?

Grace Paley writing a story about an author writing a story is an example of which of the following?

In Amy Tans Half and Half, where does the narrators mother keep her Bible?

Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems and his friend Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road are the two definitive works of ___________ literature, depicting the countercultural lives of their artists in an improvisatory, spontaneous style akin to jazz music.

According to the editors of your text, Postmodernist authors are no longer concerned with representing one knowable world but instead with creating many literary worlds that represent a diversity of experiences.

A journalist by trade, this postmodern author’s literary output is most known for his short stories, with his Postmodern fiction being entirely unique.  “The School” is an example of a form he popularized called Flash Fiction.

Robert Frost once said that a poem is “a momentary stay against ________________ .