Appendix 3: Literature with Themes of Home

Poetry

Alvarez, Julia. HomeComing.

Clifton, Lucille. “in the inner city” in good woman: poems and a memoir.

Doty, Mark. “Demolition” in My Alexandria.

Gallagher, Tess. “Willingly” in Amplitude.

Hughes, Langston. “I Too” in The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes.

Oliver, Mary. “The House” in New and Selected Poems.

Rilke, Rainer Maria. “Autumn Day” in The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (trans. Stephen Mitchell).

Rukeyser, Muriel. “Song” in A Muriel Rukeyser Reader (ed. Jan Heller Levi).

Shikibu, Izumi. “When the netted fence of spiderwebs…” in The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Kamachi and Izumi Shikibu (trans. Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani).

Fiction

Danticat, Edwidge. Breath, Eyes, Memory.

Morrison, Toni. Beloved.

Naylor, Gloria. Linden Hills.

Naylor, Gloria. The Women of Brewster Place.

Woodson, Jacqueline. The House You Pass On.

Drama

Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun.