Works Annotated by Irene Chen


Literature


Literature


Borges, Jorge Luis The Immortals
Brooks, Gwendolyn The Bean Eaters
We Real Cool
Carver, Raymond Fat
Little Things
What the Doctor Said
Chekhov, Anton P. An Attack of Nerves (A Nervous Breakdown)
Clifton, Lucille the lost baby poem
Coulehan, Jack Anatomy Lesson
Appetite
Complications
Finches
I'm Gonna Slap Those Doctors
Irene
The Man with Stars Inside Him
Medicine Stone
The Power of Inclination
Dickey, James The Cancer Match
Dickinson, Emily After great pain, a formal feeling comes
Because I could not stop for death
Death is like the insect
The heart asks pleasure first
I felt a cleaving in my mind
I heard a fly buzz when I died
Just lost when I was saved
Much madness is divinest sense
My life closed twice
Pain has an element of blank
Fishbein, Julie Deane The Biologist
Hippocrene
Katherine
Goedicke, Patricia After the Second Operation
In the Hospital
Millay, Edna St. Vincent Love Is Not All; It Is Not Meat nor Drink
Mukand, Jon Arun Letter of Introduction
Lullaby
Nemerov, Howard Fugue
Plath, Sylvia Lady Lazarus
Roethke, Theodore My Papa's Waltz
The Waking
Roston, Diane On Studying Anatomy
Selzer, Richard Toenails
Shakespeare, William Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
My glass shall not persuade me I am old
My love is as a fever, longing still
That time of year thou mayest in me behold
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
Silbert, Layle Losses
Stafford, Jean The Interior Castle
Stone, John Death
Talking to the Family
Thomas, Dylan Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
Van Duyn, Mona The Accusation
Tears
Williams, William Carlos The Last Words of My English Grandmother