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Aaron, Princess, 'lil Aaron, Alex-Chaun
Their Bike Shop moved to 912 5th street in November, 2012.
Happy, go Lucky... Always willing to help.
Email Aaron with any Bicycle related questions. email@example.com.
Aaron came to Davis in 1997 to attend UC Davis on a full scholarship from The Buck Foundation. During college, Aaron worked at a few of the downtown Bike Shops in addition to The Paint Chip, Mobile Connections, Jamba Juice, Cafe Roma, The Logical Learning Center, D-M Information Systems, Inc., and Pak Mail. Aaron is very proud to say that he has never been unemployed for longer than 3 days (one time in 2004) since he was 14yrs old and that many of his jobs overlapped one another.
When he's not at his Bike Shop, he can be found riding bikes with his kids around town.
Aaron and his boys train in Brazilian JiuJitsu, KaJuKenpo and Escrima.
Aaron prizes above all else, proper communication and respect. A little known fact is that Aaron was adopted from Cambodia (even though everyone asumes he's from the Philippines) at the age of 3 by a retired Catholic Priest, and raised Jewish.
Aaron and his family are active members of the Davis community and can be found at most local functions especially if bikes are involved. Aaron usually donates his time whenever a bike race or school bike safety rodeo needs a mechanic. Aaron also works for the North Natomas TMA and is an outside sales rep for various brands in the bicycle industry for Hawaii.
If you happen to get a bike flat somewhere in town and happen to see his silver Honda Ridgeline or white Honda minivan with APEX stickers, he always carries tools, a pump and spare tubes. He'll even give you a lift if needed.
Favorite Foods:
Sushi - Zen Toro hands down. Go 1-2 times a week Indian - Kathmandu Kitchen, Raja's Owners are so genuinely nice, best nann bread ever Thai - Thai Nakorn Nicest people around, Thai Canteen Cheap and good Chinese - Shanghai Town Most authentic I've found in town, Hunan One of the best lunch deals in town, Davis Noodle City Love the chicken chowmien and 5 spice beef noodle soup Sandwich - Zia's Delicatessen Meatball on a soft roll w/ $1 worth of pastrami, Beach Hut Deli North shore minus the ham Brunch - Konditorei, Cafe Bernardo, Crepeville Burger - In-N-Out Cheeseburger, animals style, protein style with fry light french fries, Burgers and Brew Spicy Guacamole Burger Pizza - Village Bakery Veggie Gelato/Yogurt - Icekrimski Cafe Coconut macadamia nut, Swirl I know its Cultivé Frozen Yogurt now, but it will always be Swirls to me. Try the Taro flavor, reminds me of Ubi ice cream. If you know what that is, you get a brownie point.
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2008-07-06 21:57:19 What was objectionable about this edit? If I'm reading it right he gave reference to a nearby landmark. —JasonAller
2008-07-06 22:00:12 Sorry, figured it out. I'll invite him to create a page for the new business. You only removed his second comment and I missed his first. —JasonAller
2008-08-20 21:40:16 Jason and I both fixed it at the same time. There was a bold in the very top announcement that wasn't closed. —JabberWokky
2008-10-08 09:06:59 Sagat has yet to acknowledge the existence of her own page, perhaps you could clue her in that she can click her name and voila? Uni does need some color!
Hey, want a challenge you won't be able to fix (no shop in Northern California has been able to help me, including all the usual suspects in Davis bike church,bike exchange, places in sac, etc)? I have a 4 speed sturmey archer from a moulten that is from early 60's and has working full suspension, the piece that goes in the center of the sturmey (axle thingy) snapped... I really want to get this bike working again cause it's just awesome and utterly classic... —StevenDaubert
2008-10-08 19:26:12 Heya, is there a fee to get an appointment on Sunday? My back wheel bearings are shot and need to be replaced. I might even need a red tuning (or at the least a yellow) once you see how bad the wheels are. —SunjeetBaadkar
2008-10-09 10:41:57 What sunny warrants a response but I don't? —StevenDaubert
2008-10-20 10:34:51 What up Aaron, I talked with Sagat yesterday and apparently she is having one of her buddies who is an artist come in from Japan! Like I said sagat wasn't aware of the personal page, but I told her how to peep scene!
P.S. give the students there fixie fix and when it slows down and you want a real challenge I will bring my moulten thru. I honestly don't expect you to succeed where every bike shop for 50 miles hasn't, but it's still worth a shot! —StevenDaubert
2008-10-20 21:05:49 Hello Aaron. Thank you very much for your offer! Actually we have been working with a couple artists about showcasing their work in our shop. However, nothing will be confirmed until November. I shall let you know as soon as I find out! —Sagat
2008-12-09 19:18:28 sounds great! —StevenDaubert
2008-12-13 07:38:46 No problem. I've been meaning to mention that there are some issues with that layout on smaller monitors, with the images on the left and right top pinching the text. You might want to move the ones on the left down to the text. It's not a tremendously big deal, but if you have your browser window sized certain ways (or have certain resolution screens), it can look odd and hard to read (the table gets squeezed). I think I fixed it awhile back, and you migrated the photos back up over time, but I never bothered to fix it again, as it's not a terrible problem. When it gets really small, the table pops to below the photos. —JabberWokky
2008-12-24 12:47:06 Did you ever get a chance to visit Konditorei at it's old location? —StevenDaubert
2008-12-24 12:54:19 ¬_¬
So yeah, scratch trying to fix the moulten, my dad would rather throw away history then have it take up a small small spot of his garage... —StevenDaubert
2009-04-23 02:15:34 you should try thai dynamite —StevenDaubert
2009-07-25 17:18:32 Thanks. I already got my current issues resolved but maybe next time. —RealComputers
2009-07-31 10:07:57 Well, the first thing that comes to mind when setting any event up is the audience. First off, what kind of crowds it brings. Understandably that would be the biking community. However, there is that secondary issue of the money-making community. My worry is the legitimacy of this sort of event. There would have to be a way to make sure that parts being traded and sold are not illegally obtained. What is to stop someone from stealing a random bike earlier in the day, breaking it apart, and then selling the non-licensed parts? When a bike is licensed via TAPS or whatnot, it is licensed as a whole. That is just a random thought that comes to mind (evil minds aren't necessarily evil themselves). Reputable vendors would need to be contacted and non-reputable vendors would need to be verified. However, the perfect venue would be Central Park. It is close to most places people bike near/to so that works out pretty well for the people who somehow aren't reached by advertising methods. As far as advertising, that is the easy part. With enough time (but not too much time), the internet, flyers, word of mouth, and calling in favors is how it is done (at least in my world). I could easily help with that part if you need. But frankly, I think it is a great idea if only the people buying and selling were people at manned booths with a background that is traceable. I think the idea that someone can walk up off the street and sell something to someone other person off the street is a bit tricky if there is an altercation. Otherwise, great idea. It would need to be brainstormed more, but yeah. Let me know if you want my help. —SunjeetBaadkar
2009-09-14 14:58:00 Hey Aaron, I have a cheap mountain bike, the pedals have some movement that they shouldn't have (it's kinda up and down, as if they aren't seated with the axle or whatnot) I have another exact copy of the same cheap bike that doesn't have the problem... How do I swap / repair? —StevenDaubert
Upon further reflection I think I'm going to just unbend the other bikes bent derailer hanger and then move the good derailer onto the old bike... How much do you want for use of a chain breaker onsite @ apex ?
2009-09-22 08:51:57 Others might disagree, but I think the reason to keep those brief is because the page is a directory pointing people to the more detailed entries about each shop or resource. The text should be however long it takes to distinguish each for somebody scanning over the list looking for something particular. —JabberWokky
2009-12-12 11:36:28 I went and asked for clarification. Hopefully the answer will make things clearer for everyone. Despite any issues that arise the good news that comes with this change is that the way is cleared to now make some improvements to the software that hosts Davis Wiki and the other Wiki Spot wikis. —JasonAller
2010-02-01 19:03:03 regarding your bizarro votes: reread question #2 — thats not a direct link, its a general link. the text was a link to comics and to roleplaying. Just like every thai place links to thai restaurants and every barber shop links back to stylist places, etc. question #1 is about the direct link. —EdWins
2010-04-14 14:13:05 I will bring you an abalone to the bbq, bring a cooler or a bucket that can hold some water to put it in. —DagonJones
2010-05-29 18:40:12 Hey Aaron, I missed you at the bbq, I had your abalone. I am in Fort Bragg right now and will be bring back a few abalone. If your shop is open on monday I will gladly bring by one or two to give to you. Otherwise, I can bring one by to another location if you like. I will likely have more than I can eat. Just let me know. —DagonJones
2010-06-03 22:17:03 your welcome. I am glad you enjoyed it, I will have to try it that way some time. someone told me it is good to steam it with sake. your kids seemed to enjoy poking at it when I brought it over. —DagonJones
2010-06-28 22:55:29 bike is working great, thanks for the help. It is nice to not have my chain skipping all the time. —DagonJones
2010-07-12 10:12:53 Ugh, sorry to hear about your experience at Bistro. I despise that place. —TomGarberson
2010-07-12 10:22:22 What a great family portrait!! —CovertProfessor
Thanks... it was taken at the UCD Arboretum by Musa Zaid, email@example.com. He's a great local Photographer that used to work for the Aggie and is now at UCSF Med School. Email him if you ever need some pics done. his family still lives in Davis, so he comes back and forth regularly.
2010-08-07 15:18:24 It was nice running into you today!
I bought the stickers here and bought 500 of the 4.25" x 1.38" ones. The file I sent them is here. It took me about a week to get them! —WilliamLewis
2010-09-02 08:48:40 Hey Aaron, thanks so much for the auction donation! I think my wife may be bidding on the tune-up, since she's headed back to school next week. Her poor bike has been largely neglected over the summer. (Don't tell her I said that, she'll feel guilty) —TomGarberson
2010-09-22 23:14:14 Good man on the bike pump —StevenDaubert
2010-10-13 21:33:57 Good luck with the possible expansion! —WilliamLewis
2010-12-01 10:17:31 Bad luck about the chuck... I hope it was a case of somebody pocketing it while they were working on their bike and forgetting or some similar case of neglect rather than malice. —JabberWokky
Nope... they stole it. The compressor in question is the one that I left a hose outside for people to use anytime. If the chuck is removed, the hose leaks and makes a huge racket with the compressor constantly running and trying to fill the tank. So they new what they were doing as it would be instantaneous loud obnoxious noise. When I came to the shop in the morning, the compressor was still running (and overheating) so I had to unplug it. Its too bad really, as many people came by and used it on a regular basis. —Aaron.Curtin
2011-02-16 20:48:02 I probably wont swing by anytime soon, so why don't you email me at dagonjones at gmail.com I am happy to answer any questions you have. —DagonJones
2011-04-15 13:45:51 Hey Aaron, I noticed the $15 off any tune-up for students—is the $25/45/75/105 set of figures listed on Bicycle Shops still current? If so, what's actually included in the $10 (with discount for students) tune-up? That's an impressive price! —TomGarberson
2011-08-28 20:21:15 Just wanted to say that I hope all is well with the family. Saw the message on the door of your shop during my shift. My prayers are with you. —Wes-P
Things are getting better, but being an only child, everything falls on my shoulders. My parents are both not doing well, so I have to take care of everything for them in addition to trying to take care of everything here. I hope that in the next few weeks I can get everything taken care of and back to a "normal" life. I appreciate your kind words and all the support and understanding I've gotten from customers. Here's to better days ahead. —Aaron.Curtin
2011-10-13 16:24:02 Thanks for the info Aaron. I'll probably check with Freewheeler first since that's where I got my bike, but you're my backup =) —MeggoWaffle
2011-10-22 10:25:18 how was your tenure at DM info? Ever run into Scott there? Also I saw the APEX name on one of those Taco bell one dollar to charity cards! Props for donating to charity, unprops for eating TB ^__~ I still remember when I thought fast food was a treat ugh —StevenDaubert
I worked At DM Info, when it was independently owned. Not a horrible job, but not the best for a college student with an short attention span (in my case). Mainly worked on the Aerojet litigation. Too much time in front of a computer screen. They did have free ice cream sandwiches in the employee lounge though ;) As for TB, yeah... try to not go there more than 2x a month... lesser of 2 evils when compared to Jack in the Box.
Verily, all fast food is gnar-bar... Daubert
I just quoted your reply to Sarah, and she laughed and said, "he is a wonderful person". More people should use the word "verily". -jw
I'm guessing this is the world's first sentence to use both "verily" and "gnar-bar." —cp
2011-11-05 04:28:07 goodbye and good riddance?
now we just have to get the alley un painted from that stupid shade of green —StevenDaubert
2012-03-29 10:22:27 I just bought the groupon for a tune-up at APEX. My poor bike is sadly neglected, looking forward to getting it fixed up a bit. I know I'm going to need a new tube, and I'm guessing new brake cables as well. —TomGarberson
2012-06-24 15:26:48 tell me a little more about your experience with Ally if you please —StevenDaubert
What would you like to know? How after 3 years they still haven't given me the light switch and socket covers (which puts me in violation of fire codes for which I have been cited), or how I got the run around for 2 years about expanding/moving to another larger location next door, or how I was told my current location was 600sq/ft and charged accordingly but after measuring its only 351sq/ft with no explanation on their part. Dealing with them has been/is a nightmare.
2012-07-11 16:02:27 Hey Aaron, I'm inheriting an old-ish road bike my dad doesn't ride anymore. It's been hanging in his garage for a decade or two, so it may need some wheel work. Also, his old biking shoes won't fit me... do you carry various types of shoes? I have no idea what kind of pedals are on the bike (and if I did I wouldn't know what it meant). Am I likely to need to get new pedals, along with shoes? If so, any recommendations on how to go about selecting something suitable for me? —TomGarberson
2013-05-22 17:46:10 Sinish has the manager make orders from classico (the distributor), talk to them or just tell them you want to order one of the I think 5 liter tubs if you really really want it back... —StevenDaubert
2013-06-25 11:14:44 Aaron, I see that this negative comment was left from the same IP address that you yourself used, just minutes before, to make edits on the same page, a competitor's page. I don't think of you as the sort of businessman who would engage in that sort of sockpuppeting against a potential competitor. Can you clarify? —CovertProfessor
I usually use the other handle when I don't want things directly tied to me. But I left nothing negative. Statement of facts. wiki (which I based my visit on) and sign in the window said open at 10. I got There at 10:30. They weren't there so I left after waiting for about 20 minutes because I had to get to the shop and open myself. Called numerous times when I got to my shop and they didn't get in until noon. I realize thy're new, and wanted to see what They had to offer. Nothing out of the ordinary or to differentiate themselves from any of the other shops. I have yet to "test" their bike knowledge, but time will tell. —Aaron.Curtin
Aaron-not sure you're seeing the point. It isn't your job to "test" them...also saying "1st impressions not too great." is definitely a negative statement. Why don't you focus on your bike business. If your product and services are good enough to fulfill the community needs, you shouldn't have to worry about what other businesses are doing. —PeteB
Not open, next to nothing for sale... these Are all Things I had to deal with years ago. Are they reliable, not sure, but considering what limited experience I've had with then, I'd say not so. It is my place to see what other business are doing as all the bike shops in town are not only in friendly competition, but also part of the cycling community as a whole. We rely on each other for parts, tools or advice. If I can't use them as such why should anyone else? 1st impression not too great. I didn't mention that there were 2 other potential customers there that were waiting that left. I never mentioned to them that I owned a shop or to go anywhere else. I let them formulate that opinion on their own. This was my experience and within my right to voice it. I have since removed all association with the other handle and posted under my REAL name, Feel free to talk to me in person anytime. You can find me at my shop during regular POSTED business hours unless I'm at lunch, but I'd be willing to schedule an appointment if you'd like. - Aaron
Thank you for correcting your attempt to hide behind a false name, however, if I come to Davis I'll shop elsewhere. Attempts like yours kill my faith in businesses. —PeteB
Attempt at what? Are you implying something, because it would be better if you just came out and said what you are thinking rather than beat around the bush. If you do decide to come to Davis, fell free to shop elsewhere. Better yet, check Daviswiki, you'll find many useful reviews and customer feedback in regards to me and my business practices. I'm not perfect, nor did I ever claim to be, but as far as bikes are concerned, you won't find anyone better. That said, I do reserve the right to refuse service as well. - Aaron
2013-06-25 13:48:45 Not trying to air your personal business, but that comment reads very differently coming from you vs. a customer. —CovertProfessor
Regardless if you were or not, you did, and that was what I was trying to avoid in the first place. - Aaron
I'm not getting it. You were the one who revealed the information about yourself and your family. Not sure why it airs your personal business to say that you were the one who wrote it. —cp
I changed it to my real name to apease the DWgods... at the time it was meant to be anonymous. By you reveling that it was me, you outed me and aspects of my personal life that I was not comfortable with at the time. Why is that so hard for you to understand considering you don't even use your own real name when editing the wiki? - Aaron
Aaron-again you're not getting it, man. No matter what you do on the Wiki-anyone can see by the IP's that you were the same person posting from both accounts. You outed yourself. Please stop blaming others for what you set yourself up for. —PeteB
You'll just have to take my word for it — I genuinely don't understand. I can see why you wouldn't use your own name when commenting on a business, although I think it's shady when you do it while critiquing a competitor (and hey, everyone else can see that it was a critique but you). But I truly don't understand the comment on your own page. Using your pseudonym, you wrote, "In response to all the recent questions and concerns about the shop. I have to say that this is still one of the best little bike shops around. They are going through some tough times right now as it is a family business and I overheard one of the volunteers mentioning that Aaron has been dealing with his mother's Alzheimers and has had to close the shop periodically to deal with that. I rolled past tonight, and there he was working late into the night to try and make up for not being open during the day. He said he won't be around again tomorrow since he has to follow up with doctors and find an assisted living facility for his mother. If you need to get something done with your bike, he's still one of the best local resources. He hopes that all his loyal customers understand and that he will try to have the shop up and running regular hours by the middle of the week. Feel free to call him or shoot him an email with any questions." That comment in itself revealed your personal life about you caring for your mother; I didn't do it. My saying it was you who wrote it lets people know that you're willing to pretend to be a customer who says praiseworthy things about your own business. Sorry, that doesn't reflect well on you. I can see that you were going through a bad time, so I am sympathetic — but still, it was not the right thing to do. So, who is in the wrong here — the person who sockpuppeted about his own business, pretending to be a customer who said it was "one of the best little bike shops around," or the person who pointed out the other person's bad behavior? —CovertProfessor
@ CP, I understand your point on that, and during that time I WAS going through a lot, dealing with my 90 year old Father's failing health, and my mother's Alzheimers, while raising my young family and running my business. More than any 30 year old should have to endure. For that I apologize. But this more recent use of my formerly anonymous account was strictly for reference without being targeted as biased. As anyone who really knows me as a person, not just as a business entity, they will tell you that I don't have a malicious bone in my body. @ PeteB, you're blowing it out of proportion. And I may have inadvertently outed myself via IP addresses, but that shred of anonymity was lost when CP posted who I was. Even if its one click away, at least there was another step to hide who I was. I don't have to answer to any of you. I've been in business for 7 years, I'll be here as long as I want. I have wholeheartedly supported the Daviswiki, financially and in spirit, but today its over. I have touted to other local business owners the benefits of the wiki to deaf ears. Now I share their sentiment as it has grown into a circle jerk of "moderators" - Aaron
Aaron, you've been a valued member of the DavisWiki for many years. That's why I was so surprised to see you sockpuppet a competitor today. I think maybe you need to take a step back, maybe ask some people not involved with the wiki what they think, and really reflect on whether it's right to do what you did today on a competitor's business page. I think you'll see that you ought not to have done that. No one is trying to come down hard on you. In fact, notice that no one has written anything on your business page about this. To be clear, I am not making a threat (I have no intention of making such an edit), but pointing out that editors have in fact been fairly gentle with your behavior, behavior that has always been frowned upon. You've been editing the wiki long enough to know that sockpuppeting a business is not acceptable. I'd like to see you continue to edit the wiki in a productive way, as you always have in the past. —CovertProfessor
Aaron-I am truly sorry for the tribulations you experienced with your parents. Mine are both elderly and in failing health so I'm entering a hard time myself but CP really is spot on here. Noone is trying to chase you away at all. We really want you to be a productive contributor. Please consider what's been said here. —PeteB
And vise versa - Aaron
2013-06-25 15:48:20 First edit with the other account was three years ago... Outside of this which is technically sockpuppety but is of a much lesser degree (compared to examples like these with attacks on competitors)... Pretty long con to attack a new used bike store when there are stronger competitors in town, and it didn't even seem like much of an attack. I feel like there was either a huge amount of malice that required serious long-term planning and slightly negative remarks to eventually ruin someone's business (a plan that was ruined by not using a proxy) or maybe a person genuinely curious about another business who wanted to share his experience with another shop, but figured he would be burned alive if people found out he owned a bike shop. I can definitely understand why someone might want to review anonymously (business owners, professors, celebrities), and it might even be positive to the community if someone with a strong following (like a celebrity) would prefer their words be taken because of their previous contribution to the site rather than their status in the real world. If the anonymous account consistently provides good contributions, I don't think it would be a terrible idea if some people decided to have a separate anonymous account to review things. For example on a forum, if a popular moderator were to say something positive about something, you're most likely going to get a circle-jerk just due to that moderator's status, so if the moderator wanted his or her words taken seriously, posting on a regular account might be beneficial for the community. —hankim
To be clear: I don't object to him having a separate, anonymous account that he uses to comment on restaurants and such. I object to him using it to say good things about his business and bad things about competitors' businesses. The fact that he didn't create the account in order to do that specifically, or that there are worse instances of sockpuppeting — both points I acknowledge — doesn't change the fact that what he did in those two instances was shady. I can understand the urge, but I still think it's shady. —CovertProfessor
Definitely the first sockpuppetry act was shady (the one on his own business page) but I feel like the second one didn't seem malicious. I don't have an issue with a bike store owner reviewing other bike stores anonymously as long as he isn't lying about his experience there and he actually visited the shop. —hankim
I see a reason but again IP's are logged and if he understood that in any way, then he had to know he'd be discovered and questions would arise (again setting himself up). My only thought is he didn't realize his IP's were being logged? -PeteB
I don't think it was "malicious," no. But he wrote things that cast the other place in a bad light. In such a case, it matters that he has a financial stake. —cp
A financial stake in taking out a new bike shop when there are larger and more established businesses in town? —hankim
As Aaron himself said, Davis is "a town that has more than *a dozen competing businesses all vying for the same limited customer base." —cp
That nails it perfectly CP...—PeteB
This isn't that big a deal. I'd just suggest the problem go away: http://daviswiki.org/T%26M_Bike_Shop/Talk —DonShor
What did I say specifically warrants that the comment should go away? - Aaron
Aaron—one simple quote- "but 1st impressions not too great". That seems negative to me. As Daubert stated, "It's not what you say but how you say it ". That could give someone a negative opinion of the bike shop right off the bat. Thank you for updating your original post on the page for their shop.—PeteB
You're a competitor, Aaron. I'm not going to go over and critique another garden center. My critique wouldn't be the point. It's a conflict of interest. —Don
@Don, Are we not all friends and here for the benefit of the wiki? If I were looking at a garden center, I'd want your opinion, because I respect it because I know that you know gardening. Wether it be in a public forum or in private. Who knows a field better than one's own?
@ Pete, So you're telling me if I were to say, "1st impression's not too great" about any other business then it'd be ok? But since I singled out the new business to which I had yet to formulate an opinion as a consumer or competitor and didn't have a great 1st impression I should have kept it to myself?
My opinion of them stands, its my opinion of Daviswiki that has changed. - Aaron
2013-06-25 18:38:53 "Their Bike Shop is moving to 912 Fifth Street Suite 105 within the next few weeks" hasn't the shop been moved? —StevenDaubert
No not really I just noticed that you have outdated information on your page. I would change it but it's your userpage. Therefore I settled for second best which is telling you. ~SD
Hmm... lets see. You didn't tell me, you passive aggressively made it known. I'll quote you on this one. "Its not what you say, its how you say it" - Aaron
Aaron-Daubert was perfectly in his rights and very appropriate in how he posted it. I suggest everyone just leave this alone for the night and —if need be— revisit it tmrw. —PeteB
Stay out of it Pete. This is between me and SD. - Aaron
2013-06-26 09:17:26 Don't forget places like this and these. People need to know what kind of phones they can purchase and all the publishers of products the bookstores might sell. —hankim
2013-06-26 09:27:37 Here's a sequence of events that I see. For years, you are considered a valued and productive member of the Davis Wiki. Your business' page is, in fact, a disaster. It's promotional and bolded and over the top. But I think everyone looked the other way because you were one of us. Then you sockpuppeted against a defender. Anyone can make a mistake, but in fact, you've defended your actions when someone as experienced with the wiki as you ought to know that what you did was wrong. Now you're just retaliating by making a mess of the wiki. Basically, your spending all the capital you've built over the years. You no longer come across as a good guy, "happy go lucky," etc. You come across as petty. You might want to rethink your actions. They are not helping you or your business. Some friendly advice. —CovertProfessor
* I've moved pass the sockpuppet debacle, I took my licks like a man and fessed up to it. I updated and took credit for my posts. I am now and still talking about what should be allowed on a business page. If they can do it, so can all other retailers. Do some research on their business, get to work and start editing, fix my sloppy haphazard edits and make the Daviswiki the best it can be. - Aaron
I look at it like this, if its good for the goose, its good for the gander. Just because its assumed or implied does not make it so. I will spend time toning APEX's page down to the specs of the other pages, but I will aso try and make an attempt at other retailer's pages to list what brands they sell new and used since that's what your argument is in regards to my wanting to remove it from T&M. Lets educate the public rather than allow one retailer to benefit from the wiki's indifference and self righteous atitude towards me. As many of you have stated in regards to yourselves, I will continue to "fight the good fight" but as I see fit. I expect you all to do no less. - Aaron
2013-06-26 15:48:37 May be worth stepping back for a bit and letting things cool off. Everyone's already fired up. —jefftolentino
2013-06-26 15:54:51 Not yet-I've had some work issues come up (server moves) and I'm now doing dbl shifts the rest of the week. I promise I'll look into it when I can but work comes first. Will probably be next week at this point.—PeteB
2013-07-02 21:27:44 Aaron-when you asked me to look into Cannondale, I thought to check out some of the authorized dealers you list on the APEX Cycles page. What is concerning is that a few of them-Biria Bicycles, Lynskey Titanium Bikes and Von Dessel (I spoke to 2-Von Dessel emailed me back) have stated you are NOT an authorized dealer for their bikes.
I'm going to be around very sporadically for the next few weeks as my elderly mother is very ill at a local hospital, but I wanted you to have an opportunity at clarifying the issues with these 3 companies. —PeteB
I'm curious to hear your reply to PeteB, given how concerned you were about other shops potentially misrepresenting who they are authorized dealers for. —CovertProfessor
Due to your not responding I have removed Biria & Lynskey & Von Dessel from your authorized dealers list. Both of them said (Biria & Lynskey)—on the phone to me-(Von Dessel informed me by email) that you are not an authorized dealer. If you are going to express concerns about other bike shops it would be appropriate to make sure your own list of authorized dealers is updated. —PeteB
Wow, take a break from the wiki to let things cool down and this is where you guys want to take it. Not sure who you talked to at Biria USA and Lynskey, but according to Michael Biria @ BiriaUSA (201-461-1980) and Don Erwin, Sales Manager or Jack Kopeski, Sales Account Manager @ Lynskey Performance (423.499.5815) I I am still an authorized dealer and considered a "non stocking" dealer respectively. As for Van Dessel, I was the only dealer in the area for a long time and did not think to ever renew my dealership agreement as I always just ordered when I needed one. I'm fine with the removal of Van Dessel, but I urge you to call the names above to confirm my status with Biria and Lynskey. I await your all powerful verdicts. - Aaron (07/16/13)
2013-07-16 17:25:30 Terrific! You followed up and corrected the issue-great! That's what we were suggesting. —PeteB
2013-07-16 17:32:33 I restored Biria and Lynskey. I called the #'s on the website and was given to people who I simply asked the question if you were an authorized dealer and was told no. Straight up question and I was put on hold while they researched it and said you weren't an authorized dealer. *shrug*. Maybe they have a staff issue but I am not responsible if they gave me inaccurate info —PeteB
2013-07-16 19:06:53 PB gave you lots of time (two weeks) to respond before editing the page for your business, and then when he did edit the page, merely deleted the claims that were, as best as he could tell, false. That is far more courtesy than you extended to your competitors. You keep trying to act the injured party here, but I am not buying it. —CovertProfessor
You don't have to "buy it", you have to accept it because DW is a MPOV wiki. I'm sure you were "curious", based off of you back handed/snide remark back on 07/02. And I didn't need to extend that courtesy, because I new for a fact that my competitor had no place claiming something that was false. Its because of the one sided battle with the "popular" editors that I stayed away from the wiki for a while, but we can get back into it if you wish. - Aaron
You can consider it snide if you like. But in fact, it was a second invitation (PB's was the first) for you to respond. But do I have to accept that you are an innocent party here? No, I don't have to. —cp
And sure, we can get back into how you sockpuppeted and used that sockpuppet to criticize a competitor, then acted like a spoiled child. But hey, none of that reflects well on you, so I would drop it. Even better, admit that you behaved badly. Look, all that was needed here was for you to set the record straight on which companies you are in fact authorized for. But you've come back with an attitude, so now you're making yourself and everyone miserable. Doesn't have to be that way, but that's the bed you've made. —cp
Sure, and we can go on about how you as a "popular" editor can make all the snide comments you wish with no recourse. The kettle calling the pot black as it were. - AC
2013-07-16 19:43:19 I didn't make that remark about "popular" editors — PB did. I don't know why you keep mixing me up in that. —CovertProfessor
I never said you did. I'm generalizing that you popular editors like to tag team and at times are just as unproductive as anyone else. I admit that much of what I have said recently has no benefit to the wiki, its the fact that I can't stand the condescending attitude from you guys (another generalization). Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if you can truly say you've never said or done anything in frustration/anger that you later regret. I apologize, if I didn't make it clear that I did before (and will probably have to apologize for the rest of my time on DW) for my actions and hope to make it a better place for all. But I will not stand by and let the opinions of a select few try directly or indirectly make me out to be the villain. I was merely pointing out that whomever PB talked to was misinformed, but I did see it as a direct retaliation for my previous actions. If it truly was just to be fair, why not do it for ALL the shops, not just mine. He can "shrug* all he wants, but thats how it looks and again, I know first hand how appearances play a factor on DW. But of course you had to chime in as well. Was it productive and in the benefit of DW, some might say yes, and some might say no, but it did come off as snarky. Again, something that I was crucified for being. But in regards to EZ smog, I was totally justified in my opinion that PB made a mistake in mentioning the popularity of an editor to justify her stand on the matter. So no matter how childish I may sound at times there is relevance to that post. But you nor PB were able to see that. You popular editors (again a generalization), saw that it was me and started to jump down my throat. It would appear I was not the only child on the playground that day. - Aaron
There are a bunch of issues mixed together here, so let me separate them out and respond one at a time.
I am not a "popular" editor; I am a frequent editor who has pissed off every single one of the other frequent editors on more than one occasion. We don't all walk in lockstep, agreeing on everything.
I agree, not all of my edits are productive and I have done things in frustration and anger that I have regretted later, here on the wiki and elsewhere.
Thank you for the apology. Prior to this, you defended your actions and then said you wanted to move on. I would find it hard to work with someone who felt that such actions were legitimate. Now that you have apologized, I can move on and not bring up the subject again.
It was fine for you to point out that whoever PB talked to was misinformed. That's why we waited two weeks for your response — to hear your side of things.
I see PB's checking up on your business as an issue of consistency. If someone is going to make a big stink about other businesses, as you did, then they should expect that they will be examined in the same fashion. They are in effect saying that these are the standards that they wish to be held by and by which they hold others. I am sorry if you see that as retaliatory, but I don't.
I agree with you that being popular has nothing to do with comments that stay on EZ-Smog, but I never said otherwise. My comment on the talk page was directed at the topic of the page, not at you. I don't know why you insist on thinking that it had something to do with you. I only responded to you when it seemed that you were criticizing my claim that the comment should stay on the page.
2013-07-16 20:35:20 Thank you for cleaning up the A1 Smog page, Aaron. I hope you don't mind that I'm staying out of this whole thing. After having had to file a lawsuit after bullshit that grew out of wiki drama, I don't have much stomach for it. I'll just note that I think everyone involved seems to be editing angry again, and it doesn't seem very constructive. Calling your vendors did seem a bit retaliatory, and I'm not a fan of that. But I think today's discussion is only making things worse. —TomGarberson
To answer TG's thought-I called the vendors originally out of his concern that a competitor was inappropriately listing names of companies they were not authorized dealers for. If you are going to be concerned about the listings for other providers, I thought it reasonable to check for him too. Only after my research did I discover competitor's page no longer has the listings but the work had already been done. In no way was it retaliatory—it was being fair. —PeteB


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Finally I have been getting some sewing time. Of course, I have also had house cleaning time, errand time, and Emmasitting time. Yes, I am on Spring Break! Yahoo!!
First, I made the little Emma a dress. This is the "practice" dress for her Easter dress. It's a bit big, so I'm glad I made a practice first.
I used McCalls 5791. Making Baby clothes is a lot like making doll clothes. Lots of little curves and places that don't fit easily under the presser foot. And even though I bought on sale fabric for this dress, by the time I bought bias tape, a zipper, elastic and thread, the dress was over $25.00. Baby clothes are so inexpensive in comparison, it would have been cheaper to buy it. But then, it wouldn't be hand made with love! (not to mention one of a kind)Of course the dress has cute little matching panties and a headband. I made a headband out of each fabric just for fun. Since Emma is pretty much bald, she wears a lot of headbands and bows!
As I went though my enormous fabric stash, I found that I had NOTHING that I wanted to use to make an Easter dress for myself. In fact, I realized I have very few spring-like fabrics. The few that I do have are earmarked for a couple of other projects. So, after a trip to JoAnns, I decided to pull out what I do have and plan some spring sewing. I have a few more wintery things ready to go, but I think our winter weather is over!
Here you see fabric for (top to bottom, a jacket to go with a skirt I finished last week, my Easter dress, another spring dress (which will be used to practice for the Easter dress)some lining, Emma's Easter dress, a blouse, and a reversible skirt for my trip to Africa. I hope I get a lot of sewing done this week, but I also have a lot of plans.
Monday Nick and I are going to get our shots for the trip and I'm looking forward to spending time with him for the day. On Tuesday I'm helping a dear friend alter her mother-of -the-groom dress and doing some paper work. Wednesday a group of us are taking off for an all day trip to the Gilroy outlet center. That doesn't leave a lot of time for sewing and all the other stuff I have to get done. I must go into work at least 1/2 day, but I'm already pushing that out of my mind!!
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I'll remember:
*Seeing my dad's eyes water when his bride walked down the isle and she smiled at him. So touching.
*meeting my nephew and brother-in-law for the first time.
*watching my girls stick out their tongues to catch snow flakes and make snow angels.
*visiting with tons of relatives that I haven't seen in years. Amazing people.
*visiting my mom and uncle John's grave with the kids
*seeing John ride a sheep and wrap everyone around his little finger.
*spending time with my grandparents and hearing more about their childhood.
*enjoying my children play with cousins and new friends
*lunch with Matt and Dee and 4 wheeler fun.
*meeting Laura. Please visit her blog for more on our rendezvous. Pictures are posted too!
Here's my plea to relatives that read my blog. Send pictures of this weekend. Please.


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Frank was born on May 6th 1971 in Amsterdam.
His parents and grandparents were very active with photography and film, so Frank was already in contact with photography and film at a very young age. Especially his grandfather had a deep impact on him and inspired him from the start to pick up photography. At a young age the whole family moved to the NoordOostPolder, now part of Flevoland. A wonderful area of the Netherlands with great nature and lots of photo opportunities.
At the start nature and sports were the primary interests and especially animals in motion were a subject that was photographed with passion, this passion for movement became later a prime subject in the model photography. After many years of shooting analogue mainly as a hobby Frank picked up video and completely switched to the video side of imaging. At that moment he had started a computer company together with his wife Annewiek and they were living in Zwolle.
The computer company grew larger and larger and after a move to Espel (back to the NoordOostPolder) Annewiek and Frank moved to Emmeloord. In Emmeloord they bought a house with a connecting building for the computer company. In the company Frank started his own department of video/photo editing and professional calibrations and home theater installations. Frank is an ISF / HAA trained calibrator and up to today still combines his photography with calibrations and reviewing projectors/displays. After a few years their son Brian was born and the computer company moved to a larger building 100mtrs removed from their home.
This was when Frank started to realize that his passion was still in photography and video was not something he wanted to do for the rest of his life (although that can always change). He picked up photography again with a few point and shoot cameras but quickly moved to the new Canon 10D. At that moment he also started with model photography and due to the background in calibrations and video and of course photography before that the switch to digital was very quickly and Frank is one of those photographers that loves the whole digital revolution.
In 2003 his wife Annewiek took over the computer company so that Frank could totally aim for the photography, and he focused all his energy and passion on his photography.
In 2004 Frank started working with Wibi Soerjadi on most of his releases and this was the start of the path that is still being followed, Frank loves shooting artists and does this in a way that really tries to show the real character combined with good lighting a combination that is very much in demand at the moment.
In 2013 Frank and Annewiek stopped their activity for the Computer shop to focus on photography, also in that year they moved to a much bigger studio and educational centre to further the development of their photography business and workshops.
After shooting for a magazine as a staff photographer Frank realized this was not what he wanted to do full time and when the magazine stopped it was the time to take the route he is following now. Teaching has always been in Franks blood, for the computer company he did several seminars on home theater and calibrations and also at a very young age he was teaching guitar lessons to starting guitarists. In 2006 Frank made the choice to make a career move and decided to totally dive into teaching and giving seminars, this was not a wrong choice as he is teaching now worldwide for many manufacturers and companies. Of course his work is still published from time to time in magazines but only the assignments that give him the creative freedom he needs and finds important. Most of all Frank is however shooting for artists, designers, photography gear, educational purposes etc.
Frank has released a book called "De magie van de kleine flitser" for the Dutch market and in 2014 the book "Mastering the modelshoot" has been released which Frank created in cooperation with Scott Kelby's team, the book went bestseller within 6 months and gets rave reviews from all levels of photographers, he also released 10 instructional DVDs/Videos which are sold worldwide. In the studio in Emmeloord Frank teaches workshops on a weekly basis, but he also teaches workshops in other countries, sometimes for manufacturers but also for groups of photographers. In 2010 Frank was the first European photographer to join Kelbytraining (now KelbyOne), a group of the worlds best instructors in both photography and retouching.
Frank shoots mainly with medium format digital, at this moment a Leaf Credo digital back connected to a Mamiya RZ67ProII for studio work and a Mamiya DF+ camera with Leaf back for location work, for the sports and other areas of photography that cannot or are difficult to shoot with medium format he uses Sony DSLRs. Although Frank loves digital he rediscovered analogue when he switched to medium format and is shooting film with the RZ67ProII, Leica R and Yashica Matt 124, "the scans are great and have a certain look you can't get really easy with digital" according to Frank
Although model/fashion photography is a huge interest for Frank he also shoots a lot of artists, what started with Wibi Soerjadi has led to a lot of famous and starting artists that found Frank's work to be unique and fitting for their albums, books, publications etc. Over the years Frank shot images for : Wibi Soerjadi, Penney de Jager, Annemarie Kremer, Sarine Voorn, Sarina Kay, Ali B, Darryl, Brownie Dutch, DJ-Dash, Atif and Suggest, Bad Boyz, G.O.D. FthPrTIII (infamous mob), Magenta, Simon Kuipers, Sean Webster band ….. and many many more.
In 2010 Frank also started to shoot a series of "test" videoclips, he shot the hit "Number 1" for Atif and Suggest, "ikke ook" for Yung-C/Farell and "Friends" for Yvonne. For the future more plans are towards motion.
According to Frank capturing the artist in his or her "style" and feel is the most rewarding thing a photographer can do, he loves to find the challenges in really capturing the character instead of just creating a "pretty" image. The contrast between this and the glamour and glitter often asked for in Fashion photography really completes the "feeling" of photography.
Frank is recognized by many companies as a leading voice for their products and is active for many companies on trade shows and dealer events.
Frank is an X-rite Master Collorati, Adobe Influencer and DxO image master, and he works closely together with companies like Elinchrom, Lowepro, Benro, Sony, Manfrotto, Synology, Phottix, Lastolite, SmallHD, Rogue/Expo Imaging, Mamiya, Leaf, Sekonic, Adobe, Phase One, DxO, Topaz, Alien Skin, MacPhun in both beta testing as in their ambassador programs.
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Bringing Your Premature Baby Home
If your baby was born prematurely, you may have waited days, weeks, or even months to take your baby home. But when the day finally arrives, it can be hard to leave the security of the hospital.
You might feel anxious about caring for your baby at home, but the care team doesn't let babies leave until they are well enough to go. With some preparation and planning, you'll be ready too.
When Can My Baby Go Home?
To be discharged from the hospital, your baby must meet certain guidelines to ensure good health and fewer medical problems. Some hospitals require a minimum weight for discharge, but more often, the care team checks to make sure your baby is:
- steadily gaining weight
- taking feedings by bottle or breast without supplemental tube feedings
- maintaining their body temperature in an open crib (with no warmers) for at least 24–48 hours
Most babies meet these goals in the weeks before reaching their original due date. Infants who have had surgery, were born with health problems, or who spent weeks on breathing machines and oxygen are more likely to stay beyond their original due date.
How Can I Prepare to Bring My Baby Home?
Before you all leave the hospital, the care team will make sure you feel comfortable caring for your baby on your own. Some hospitals offer a rooming-in period in a hospital room with your baby so you can get some hands-on caregiving experience. You'll have peace of mind knowing that help is just down the hall.
If your baby is a boy, you'll need to decide about circumcision. Full-term baby boys usually can be circumcised before they leave the hospital; generally, the same applies to a healthy preemie.
As your baby progresses, get ready for the big day and the weeks that follow with these 5 steps:
Step 1: Check Medical Records and Insurance Coverage
If you haven't already, call your health insurance company and ask to have your baby added to your policy. Many insurers require that you do this within a few days of the birth.
Some insurers offer home nursing visits for premature babies or other nursing care for those with complex medical problems. Nursing providers and social service workers/case managers can help you find out what your insurance coverage will provide.
It's a good idea to set up a file for medical records, financial statements, and other important papers you may need for your baby's medical care and insurance.
Step 2: Choose a Pediatrician and Schedule Follow-Up Visits
Find a doctor who has experience caring for premature babies and, if your child has equipment like oxygen or tube feeds, special health care needs. Often, someone on your care team can recommend a pediatrician.
- Schedule the first visit visit before your baby goes home. Check with the care team about when this visit is needed — it's usually within 2–4 days of discharge from the hospital (unless the pediatrician is already caring for your baby while in the hospital).
- Schedule any needed routine tests, including blood, hearing, and vision tests. Make sure you understand the tests needed after discharge and where to get them.
- Find out if your baby needs home nursing or visits with medical specialists other than a pediatrician. If so, ask for referrals and contact info for those health care providers. In some cases, hospitals can coordinate several specialist visits so that they can happen on the same day. Ask if this service is available to you.
Many former preemies continue to see specialists — including early-intervention specialists, neurologists, ophthalmologists, and physical therapists — for several years to measure their vision, hearing, speech, and motor skills. Following up with these specialists is important to make sure your child gets the best possible care and outcomes.
Step 3: Learn CPR and Get Any Specialized Training
Consider taking an infant CPR course before your baby comes home from the hospital. This training is required for all parents whose children are on apnea monitors. Make sure your partner takes the course, as well as grandparents or other caregivers who will be alone with the baby.
The care team may be able to recommend a program or provide the training in the hospital. The American Heart Association and the American Red Cross also can provide information on training.
If your baby will be sent home with special equipment — such as an apnea monitor, oxygen tank, or feeding pump — you'll be trained to use it. Make sure you understand what to do if something goes wrong. It's also a good idea to check to see if your county or state offers preferential parking stickers to parents with children on home oxygen. You can also call the local rescue squad to make sure they have equipment to handle a premature infant emergency and, if you live in a rural area, make sure they know how to get to your home.
Step 4: Install a Car Seat & Get Any Needed Travel Equipment
Before heading home, your preemie will need to be in an infant-only car safety seat with a 3-point or 5-point harness system or a convertible car safety seat with a 5-point harness system.
Most car seats need to be modified with head supports so that a preemie's head stays in a position that keeps the airway open. Preemies often don't have the muscle control needed to keep their heads upright or to move them if having trouble breathing. Ask the care team before adding any extra padding to a car seat.
Many hospitals require that parents bring in their car seat for a test. The baby is placed in the seat and attached to a cardiopulmonary monitor that evaluates their heart and breathing. Some babies have respiratory problems that prevent them from traveling in a traditional infant car seat. If that's the case with your baby, ask the care team about using a special restraint system.
If your baby will be on oxygen or an apnea monitor at home, you'll need to use these devices while traveling in the car. Secure them carefully so in the event of a crash they won't be dangerous to passengers. If you have any questions about whether your vehicle is properly outfitted for the ride home, talk to the care team before you leave.
Because of potential breathing problems, it's generally recommended that parents limit the time a preemie is in a car seat to an hour or so. If you need to travel longer than that, ask your doctor if it is OK for your baby. Once home, do not leave your baby asleep in the car seat. Instead, lay your baby on their back in a crib to sleep.
Step 5: Attend a Discharge Meeting
Although it varies from hospital to hospital, expect a meeting to review medical care after discharge, confirm follow-up visits, and allow you time for questions about caring for your baby. All meetings should include a talk about home care. Make sure you understand all the instructions and advice and ask questions.
When you leave with your baby, make sure you have the telephone number for the NICU. The care team can be a valuable resource, especially in the gap between discharge day and your baby's first doctor's visit.
With preparation and planning, you'll feel confident about safely taking your baby home.


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The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature is a bestseller for a reason: It brings literature to life for students, helping to make them lifelong readers, better writers, and more critical thinkers in any path they choose. Classic works drawn from many periods and cultures appear alo...
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And, because everyone teaches and learns differently, there are many options for working with the literature, including case studies on individual works and themes that everyone can relate to. In-depth chapters on major authors including Flannery O'Connor and Nathaniel Hawthorne take students deeper into their work, and three chapters on the fiction of Dagoberto Gilb and the poetry of Billy Collins and Julia Alvarez—created in collaboration with the authors themselves—are one more way that the anthology showcases literature as a living, changing art form.
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New to This Edition
29 stories, 78 poems, and 5 plays representing canonical and contemporary literature are new to this edition. Complementing the addition of several classic literary works—including Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Dorothy Parker's "One Perfect Rose"— are numerous stories, poems, and plays not frequently anthologized. The stories, poems, and plays new to this edition are a rich collection of traditional and contemporary literature — works that will make classroom discussion come alive. They include:
- Stories by George Saunders ("I Can Speak ™") and Ursula LeGuin ("The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas")
- Poems by Pedro Pietri ("Puerto Rican Obituary") and Tracy K. Smith ("Self Portrait as the Letter Y")
- Plays by Lynn Nottage (POOF!) and Harold Pinter (The Birthday Party).
A timely thematic case study on privacy in the fiction section includes stories in a range of styles and points of view on a topic fiction writers have explored for centuries. ZZ Packer's "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere," for example, traces the experience of a college student feeling isolated, and explores what may be related to that feeling. And all of the stories in the chapter encourage students to grapple with a central question: Is privacy a right, or is it an ideal that is constantly in negotiation with the fact that we are social animals?
A case study on song lyrics as poetry in the poetry section includes lyrics by a variety of artists whose work holds a significant place in our culture— from Woody Guthrie to Joni Mitchell to Janelle Monae. Students will find this chapter to be a compelling entry point into appreciating and analyzing verse, and they will explore how, from social protest anthems to rock to hip-hop, artists find new and exciting ways to manipulate language—exploiting its nuances, playing with its sound qualities, and creating metrical principles that are guided by the melodies that drive it.
Reimagined and up-to-date support for critical thinking, reading, and writing offers three streamlined chapters at the end of the book. The accessible, relatable, and realistic advice in these chapters gives students the help they need to write thoughtfully and critically about literature. In one easily located place in the book, students will find thorough coverage of critical strategies for reading, reading and the writing process broken out by genre (including a sample paper in progress), and detailed support for writing literary research papers.
The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature (Hardcover)
Twelfth Edition| ©2020
Michael Meyer; D. Quentin Miller
The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature (Hardcover)
Twelfth Edition| 2020
Michael Meyer; D. Quentin Miller
Table of Contents
Resources for Reading and Writing about Literature
Preface for Instructors
The Nature of Literature
Emily Dickinson, "A narrow Fellow in the Grass"
The Value of Literature
The Changing Literary Canon
The Elements of Fiction
1. Reading Fiction
Reading Fiction Responsively
Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour"
A Sample Close Reading: Annotated Section of "The Story of an Hour"
A Sample Paper: Differences in Responses to Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"
Explorations and Formulas
A Comparison of Two Stories
*Grace Paley, "Wants"
*Judith Ortiz Cofer, "Volar"
2. Plot
*T.C. Boyle, "The Hit Man"
Alice Walker, "The Flowers"
William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily"
PERSPECTIVE: William Faulkner, On "A Rose for Emily"
A SAMPLE CLOSE READING: An Annotated Section of "A Rose for Emily"
A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: Conflict in the Plot of William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"
Andre Dubus, "Killings"
A.L. Bader, "Nothing Happens in Modern Short Stories"
3. Character
*Tobias Wolff, "Powder"
Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl"
Xu Xi, "Famine"
*James Baldwin, "Sonny's Blues"
4. Setting
Ernest Hemingway, "Soldier's Home"
PERSPECTIVE: Ernest Hemingway, "On What Every Writer Needs"
*Ursula LeGuin, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"
*Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper"
5. Point of View
Third-Person and First-Person Narrators
John Updike, "A & P"
*Manuel Muñoz, "Zigzagger"
Maggie Mitchell, "It Would Be Different If"
6. Symbolism
*Louise Erdrich, "The Red Convertible"
*Ralph Ellison, "King of the Bingo Game"
*Cynthia Ozick, "The Shawl"
A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: On Cynthia Ozick's "The Shawl"
*Ann Beattie, "Janus"
7. Theme
*Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery"
Katherine Mansfield, "Miss Brill"
*Zora Neale Hurston, "Sweat"
8. Style, Tone, and Irony
Raymond Carver, "Popular Mechanics"
PERSPECTIVE: John Barth, "On Minimalist Fiction"
A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: The Minimalist Style of Raymond Carver's "Popular Mechanics"
Susan Minot, "Lust"
*Jim Shepard, "Reach for the Sky"
Approaches to Fiction
9. A Study of Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Brief Biography and Introduction
Nathaniel Hawthorne, *"The Minister's Black Veil"
"Young Goodman Brown"
"The Birthmark"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "On Solitude"
"On the Power of the Writer's
"On His Short Stories"
Herman Melville, "On Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tragic Vision"
Gaylord Brewer, "The Joys of Secret Sin"
10. A Study of Flannery O'Connor
A Brief Biography and Introduction
Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
"Good Country People"
Flannery O'Connor, "On the Use of Exaggeration and Distortion"
Josephine Hendin, "On O'Connor's Refusal to 'Do Pretty'"
Claire Katz, "The Function of Violence in O'Connor's Fiction"
Edward Kessler, "On O'Connor's Use of History"
TIME Magazine, "On A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories"
11. A Cultural Case Study: James Joyce's "Eveline"
A Brief Biography and Introduction
James Joyce, "Eveline"
The Alliance Temperance Almanack, "On the Resources of Ireland"
Bridget Burke, "A Letter Home From an Irish Emigrant"
-- "A Plot Synopsis of The Bohemian Girl"
12. A Study of Dagoberto Gilb: The Author Reflects on Three Stories
A Brief Biography
Dagoberto Gilb, "How Books Bounce" (Introduction)
Dagoberto Gilb, "Love in L.A." (Story)
Dagoberto Gilb, "On Writing 'Love in L.A.'" (Essay)
Dagoberto Gilb, "Shout" (Story)
Dagoberto Gilb, "On Writing 'Shout'" (Essay)
Dagoberto Gilb, "Uncle Rock" (Story)
Dagoberto Gilb, "On Writing 'Uncle Rock'" (Essay)
Dagoberto Gilb, "On Physical Labor"
"On Distortions of Mexican American Culture"
"Michael Meyer Interviews Dagoberto Gilb"
FACSIMILES: Dagoberto Gilb, Two Draft Manuscript Pages
13. Thematic Case Study: War and Its Aftermath
Tim O'Brien, "How to Tell a True War Story"
*Kurt Vonnegut, "Happy Birthday, 1951"
*Edwidge Danticat, "The Missing Peace"
14. Thematic Case Study: Humor and Satire
Annie Proulx, "55 Miles to the Gas Pump"
*George Saunders, "I Can Speak ™"
Ron Hansen, "My Kid's Dog"
Mark Twain, "The Story of the Good Little Boy"
15. Thematic Case Study: Privacy
*Oscar Wilde, "The Sphinx Without a Secret"
*David Long, "Morphine"
*ZZ Packer, "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere"
*John Cheever, "The Enormous Radio"
16. Stories For Further Reading
*Washington Irving, "Rip Van Winkle"
*Jhumpa Lahiri, "Sexy"
*Alecia McKenzie, "Private School"
*Joyce Carol Oates, "Tick"
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado"
*Carol Shields, "Mrs. Turner Cutting the Grass"
*John Edgar Wideman, "All Stories are True"
The Elements of Poetry
17. Reading Poetry
Reading Poetry Responsively
Lisa Parker, "Snapping Beans"
Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays"
John Updike, "Dog's Death"
The Pleasure of Words
*Gregory Corso: "I am 25"
Robert Francis, "Catch"
A SAMPLE STUDENT ANALYSIS: Tossing Metaphors in Robert Francis's "Catch"
Philip Larkin, "A Study of Reading Habits"
Robert Morgan, "Mountain Graveyard"
e.e. Cummings, "l(a"
Anonymous, "Western Wind"
Regina Barreca, "Nighttime Fires"
Poetic Definitions of Poetry
*Marianne Moore, "Poetry"
Billy Collins, "Introduction to Poetry"
Ruth Forman, "Poetry Should Ride the Bus"
*Charles Bukowski, "A Poem is a City"
Recurrent Poetic Figures: Five Ways of Looking at Roses
Robert Burns, "A Red, Red Rose"
Edmund Waller, "Go, Lovely Rose"
*William Blake, "The Sick Rose"
*Dorothy Parker, "One Perfect Rose"
*H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), "Sea Rose"
Poems for Further Study
Mary Oliver, "The Poet with His Face in His Hands"
Jim Tilley, "The Big Questions"
Alberto Ríos, "Seniors"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Eagle"
Edgar Allan Poe, "Sonnet – To Science"
Cornelius Eady, "The Supremes"
Encountering Poetry: Images of Poetry in Popular Culture
Dorothy Parker, "Unfortunate Coincidence" (Poster)
Carl Sandberg, "Window" (Photo)
Roz Chast, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Crew" (Cartoon)
Tim Taylor, "I Shake the Delicate Apparatus" (Photo)
Eric Dunn and Mike Wigton, "National Poetry Slam" (Poster)
Kevin Fleming, 560 (Photo)
Ted Kooser, "American Life in Poetry" (Web Screen)
Michael McFee, "Spitwads" (Poem in Newspaper)
18. Word Choice, Word Order, and Tone
Word choice
Denotations and Connotations
Randall Jarrell, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
Word Order
Marilyn Nelson, "How I Discovered Poetry"
Katharyn Howd Machan, "Hazel Tells LaVerne"
A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: Tone in Katharyn Howd Machan's "Hazel Tells Laverne"
Martin Espada, "Latin Night at the Pawnshop"
*Jonathan Swift, "The Character of Sir Robert Walpole"
Diction and Tone in Four Love Poems
Robert Herrick, "To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time"
Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
Ann Lauinger, "Marvell Noir"
Poems for Further Study
Walt Whitman, "The Dalliance of the Eagles"
*Kwame Dawes, "History Lesson at Eight a.m."
Cathy Song, "The Youngest Daughter"
John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Alice Jones, "The Lungs"
Louis Simpson, "In the Suburbs"
A Note on Reading Translations
Three Translations of a Poem by Sappho
Sappho, "Immortal Aphrodite of the Broidered Throne" (trans. Henry T. Wharton)
Sappho, "Beautiful-Throned, Immortal Aphrodite" (trans. Thomas Wentworth Higgins)
Sappho, "Pray to My Lady of Paphos" (trans. Mary Barnard)
19. Images
Poetry's Appeal to the Senses
William Carlos Williams, "Poem"
Walt Whitman, "Cavalry Crossing a Ford"
David Solway, "Windsurfing"
Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"
Poems for Further Study
Adelaide Crapsey, "November Night"
Ruth Fainlight, "Crocuses"
Mary Robinson, "London's Summer Morning"
William Blake, "London"
A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: Imagery in William Blake's "London" and Mary Robinson's "London's Summer Morning"
*Kwame Dawes, "The Habits of Love"
Charles Simic, "Fork"
Sally Croft, "Home-Baked Bread"
*John Keats, "To Autumn"
PERSPECTIVE: T. E. Hulme, "On the Differences between Poetry and Prose"
20. Figures of Speech
William Shakespeare, From Macbeth
Simile and Metaphor
Langston Hughes, "Harlem"
*Jane Kenyon, "The Socks"
Anne Bradstreet, "The Author to her Book"
Other Figures
Edmund Conti, "Pragmatist"
Dylan Thomas, "The Hand that Signed the Paper"
Janice Townley Moore, "To a Wasp"
Tajana Kovics, "Text Message"
Poems for Further Study
William Carlos Williams, "To Waken an Old Lady"
Ernest Slyman, "Lightning Bugs"
Martin Espada, "The Mexican Cabdriver's Poem for his Wife, Who Has Left Him"
Judy Page Heitzman, "The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill"
*Robert Pinsky, "Icicles"
Jim Stevens, "Schizophrenia"
Lucille Clifton, "Come Home from the Movies"
Kay Ryan, "Learning"
Ronald Wallace, "Building an Outhouse"
Elaine Magarrell, "The Joy of Cooking"
PERSPECTIVE: John R. Searle, "Figuring Out Metaphors"
21. Symbol, Allegory, and Irony
Robert Frost, "Acquainted With the Night"
*James Baldwin, "Guilt, Desire, and Love"
Edwin Arlington Robinson, "Richard Cory"
A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: Irony in Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Richard Cory"
Kenneth Fearing, "Ad"
e.e. cummings, "Next To Of Course God America I"
Stephen Crane, "A Man Said to the Universe"
Poems for Further Study
*Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"
*Jane Kenyon, "The Thimble"
Kevin Pierce, "Proof of Origin"
Carl Sandburg, "A Fence"
Julio Marzán, "Ethnic Poetry"
Mark Halliday, "Graded Paper"
Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess"
William Blake, "A Poison Tree"
PERSPECTIVE: Ezra Pound, "On Symbols"
22. Sounds
Listening to Poetry
Anonymous, "Scarborough Fair"
John Updike, "Player Piano"
Emily Dickinson, "A Bird Came Down the Walk –"
A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: Sound in Emily Dickinson's "A Bird came down to walk—"
Richard Armour, "Going to Extremes"
Robert Southey, from "The Cataract of Lodore"
PERSPECTIVE: David Lenson, "On the Contemporary Use of Rhyme"
Sound and Meaning
Gerard Manley Hopkins, "God's Grandeur"
Poems for Further Study
Lewis Carroll, "Jabberwocky"
William Heyen, "The Trains"
*Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Break, Break, Break"
John Donne, "Song"
Kay Ryan, "Dew"
Andrew Hudgins, "The Ice-Cream Truck"
Robert Francis, "The Pitcher"
Helen Chasin, "The Word Plum"
Richard Wakefield, "The Bell Rope"
Jean Toomer, "Unsuspecting"
John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale"
Howard Nemerov, "Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry"
*Major Jackson, "Autumn Landscape"
23. Patterns of Rhythm
Some Principles of Meter
Walt Whitman, from "Song of the Open Road"
William Wordsworth, "My Heart Leaps Up"
Suggestions for Scanning a Poem
Timothy Steele, "Waiting for the Storm"
A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: The Rhythm of Anticipation in Timothy Steele's "Waiting for the Storm"
William Butler Yeats, "That the Night Come"
Poems for Further Study
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Mnemonic"
John Maloney, "Good!"
Alice Jones, "The Foot"
A.E. Housman, "When I was One-and-Twenty"
Robert Herrick, "Delight in Disorder"
Ben Jonson, "Still to Be Neat"
e.e. cummings, "O Sweet Spontaneous"
William Blake, "The Lamb"
William Blake, "The Tyger"
Carl Sandburg, "Chicago"
PERSPECTIVE: Louise Bogan, "On Formal Poetry"
24. Poetic Forms
Some Common Poetic Forms
A.E. Housman, "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now"
Robert Herrick, "Upon Julia's Clothes"
John Keats, "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer"
William Wordsworth, "The World Is Too Much With Us"
William Shakespeare, "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?"
William Shakespeare, "My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun"
*Edna St. Vincent Millay, "I Will Put Chaos Into Fourteen Lines"
*Mark Jarman, "Unholy Sonnet"
R.S. Gwynn, "Shakespearean Sonnet"
Dylan Thomas, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
Edwin Arlington Robinson, "The House on the Hill"
Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Sestina"
Florence Cassen Mayers, "All-American Sestina"
*Julia Alvarez, "Bilingual Sestina"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "What Is an Epigram?"
David McCord, "Epitaph on a Waiter"
Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Theology"
Arthur Henry Reginald Buller, "There was a Young Lady Named Bright"
Laurence Perrine, "The Limerick's Never Averse"
Matsuo Basho, "Under Cherry Trees"
Carolyn Kizer, "After Basho"
Amy Lowell, "Last Night It Rained"
Gary Snyder, "A Dent in a Bucket"
*Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, "Ghazal 4"
*Patricia Smith, "Hip Hop Ghazal"
Ben Jonson, "On My First Son"
*Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
*Kate Hanson Foster, "Elegy of Color"
Alexander Pope, "Ode on Solitude"
Blanche Farley, "The Lover Not Taken"
Gwendolyn Brooks, "We Real Cool"
Joan Murray, "We Old Dudes"
Picture Poem
Michael McFee, "In Medias Res"
PERSPECTIVE: Elaine Mitchell, "Form"
25. Open Form
Walt Whitman, from "I Sing the Body Electric"
PERSPECTIVE: Walt Whitman, "On Rhyme and Meter"
A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: The Power of Walt Whitman's Open Form Poem "I Sing the Body Electric"
David Shumate, "Shooting the Horse"
*Reginald Shepherd, "Self Portrait Surviving Spring"
*Major Jackson, "The Chase"
Michael Ryan, "I"
e.e. cummings, "Old Age Sticks"
Natasha Trethewey, "On Captivity"
Julio Marzán, "The Translator at the Reception for Latin American Writers"
Charles Harper Webb, "Descent"
Kevin Young, "Eddie Priest's Barbershop and Notary"
Anonymous, "The Frog"
David Hernandez, "All-American"
Donald Justice, "Order in the Streets"
Approaches to Poetry
26. Emily Dickinson
A Brief Biography
An Introduction to Her Work
Emily Dickinson, "If I can Stop One Heart from Breaking"
"If I Shouldn't Be Alive"
"The Thought Beneath So Slight a Film"
"To Make a Prairie It Takes a Clover and One Bee"
"Success is Counted Sweetest"
"Water, is Taught by Thirst"
"Papa Above!"
"Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers" (1859 version)
"Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers" (1861 version)
"Portraits Are to Daily Faces"
"Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church"
"I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed"
"'Heaven' Is What I Cannot Reach"
"I Like a Look of Agony"
"Wild Nights – Wild Nights!"
"The Soul Selects Her Own Society"
"Much Madness Is Divinest Sense"
"I Dwell In Possibility"
"I Heard a Fly Buzz – When I Died"
"Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
"The Bustle in the House"
"Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant"
"Oh Sumptuous Moment"
"A Route of Evanescence"
"From All the Jails the Boys and Girls"
Emily Dickinson, "A Description of Herself"
Thomas Wentworth Higgonson, "On Meeting Dickinson for the First Time"
Mabel Loomis Todd, "The Character of Amherst"
Richard Wilbur, On Dickinson's Sense of Privation"
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, "On Dickinson's White Dress"
Paula Bennett, "On 'I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—'"
Martha Nell Smith, "On 'Because I could not stop for Death'"
A Sample In-Depth Study
Emily Dickinson, "'Faith' is a fine invention"
"I know that He exists"
"I never saw a Moor"
"Apparently with no surprise"
A SAMPLE STUDENT PAPER: Religious Faith in Four Poems by Emily Dickinson
27. Robert Frost
A Brief Biography
An Introduction to His Work
Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken"
"The Pasture"
"Mending Wall"
"Out, Out"
"Fire and Ice"
"Dust of Snow"
"Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening"
"The Need of Being Versed in Country Things"
"Nothing Gold Can Stay"
"Once by the Pacific"
"Neither Out Far Nor In Deep"
*"Desert Places"
"The Gift Outright"
Robert Frost, "'In White': An Early Version of 'Design'"
Robert Frost, "On Living Part of a Poem"
Amy Lowell, "On Frost's Realistic Technique"
Herbert R. Coursen Jr. "A Parodic Interpretation of 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'"
28. A Study of Billy Collins: The Author Reflects on Five Poems
A Brief Biography and Introduction to His Work
Billy Collins, "How Do Poems Travel?" (Introduction)
Billy Collins, "Osso Buco" (Poem)
Billy Collins, "On Writing 'Osso Buco'" (Essay)
Billy Collins, "Nostalgia" (Poem)
Billy Collins, "On Writing 'Nostalgia'" (Essay)
Billy Collins, "Questions About Angels" (Poem)
Billy Collins, "On Writing 'Questions About Angels'" (Essay)
Billy Collins, "Litany" (Poem)
Billy Collins, "On Writing 'Litany'" (Essay)
Billy Collins, "Building With Its Face Blown Off" (Poem)
PERSPECTIVE: Billy Collins, "On 'Building with Its Face Blown Off': Michael Meyer Interviews Billy Collins"
FACSIMILES: Billy Collins, Three Draft Manuscript Pages
29. A Study of Julia Alvarez: The Author Reflects on Five Poems
A Brief Biography and Introduction to Her Work
Julia Alvarez, "Queens, 1963" (Poem)
Julia Alvarez, "On Writing 'Queens, 1963'" (Essay)
Julia Alvarez, "Housekeeping Cages" (Poem)
Julia Alvarez, "On Writing 'Housekeeping Cages' and Her Housekeeping Poems" (Essay)
Julia Alvarez, "Dusting" (Poem)
Julia Alvarez, "On Writing 'Dusting'" (Essay)
Julia Alvarez, "Ironing Their Clothes" (Poem)
Julia Alvarez, "On Writing 'Ironing Their Clothes'" (Essay)
Julia Alvarez, "Sometimes the Words Are So Close" (Poem)
Julia Alvarez, "On Writing 'Sometimes the Words Are So Close'" (Essay) FACSIMILES: Julia Alvarez, Four Manuscript Pages: "Sometimes the Words Are So Close"
Marny Requa, "From an Interview with Julia Alvarez"
Kelli Lyon Johnson, "Mapping an Identity"
30. A Cultural Case Study: The Harlem Renaissance
Claude McKay
"The Harlem Dancer"
"If We Must Die"
"The Tropics in New York"
"The Lynching"
"The White City"
"The Barrier"
Georgia Douglas Johnson
"Calling Dreams"
"Lost Illusions"
Langston Hughes
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
*"The Weary Blues"
"Lenox Avenue: Midnight"
"Ballad of the Landlord"
Countee Cullen
"Yet Do I Marvel"
Karen Jackson Ford, "Hughes's Aesthetics of Simplicity"
David Chinitz, "The Romanticization of Africa in the 1920s"
Alain Locke, "Review of Georgia Douglas Johnson's Bronze: A Book of Verse"
Countee Cullen, "On Racial Poetry"
Onwuchekwa Jemie, "On Universal Poetry"
Poetry and the Visual Arts
Grant Wood, "American Gothic" (Painting)
John Stone, "American Gothic" (Poem)
Kiagawa Utamaro, "Girl Powdering Her Neck" (Woodblock Print)
Cathy Song, "Girl Powdering Her Neck" (Poem)
Maya Lin, "The Vietnam Veteran's Memorial" (Sculpture)
Yusef Komunyakaa, "Facing It" (Poem)
Pieter Brueghel The Elder, "Two Chained Monkeys" (Painting)
Wislawa Szymborska, "Brueghel's Two Monkeys" (Poem)
Edward Hopper, "House by the Railroad" (Painting)
Edward Hirsch, "Edward Hopper and the House by the Railroad" (Poem)
Vermeer, "The Milkmaid" (Painting)
Wislawa Szymborska, "Vermeer" (Poem)
31. A Case Study: Song Lyrics as Poetry
*Anonymous, "Lord Randal"
*Frederic Weatherly, "Danny Boy"
*W.C. Handy, "Beale Street Blues"
*Woody Guthrie, "Gypsy Davy"
*Hank Williams, "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"
*Bob Dylan, "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall"
*Bob Dylan, "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
*John Lennon and Paul McCartney, "I Am the Walrus"
*Van Morrison, "Astral Weeks"
*Joni Mitchell, "Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire"
*Bruce Springsteen, "You're Missing"
*Tom Waits, "Alice"
*Janelle Monae, "Americans"
32. A Thematic Case Study: The Natural World
*J. Estanislao Lopez, "Meditation on Beauty"
Jane Hirschfield, "Optimism"
Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things"
Gail White, "Dead Armadillos"
Dave Lucas, "November"
Walt McDonald, "Coming Across It"
*Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Spring"
Alden Nowlan, "The Bull Moose"
Kay Ryan, "Turtle"
*Allen Ginsburg, "Sunflower Sutra"
Mary Oliver, "Wild Geese"
*Sylvia Plath, "Pheasant"
33. A Thematic Case Study: The World of Work
Jan Beatty, "My Father Teaches Me to Dream"
Michael Chitwood, "Men Throwing Bricks"
*Walt Whitman, "I Hear America Singing"
*Langston Hughes, "I, Too"
*Pedro Pietri, "Puerto Rican Obituary"
*Theodore Roethke, "Dolor"
Marge Piercy, "To Be of Use"
*Seamus Heaney, "Digging"
*Rita Dove, "Daystar"
34. An Anthology of Poems
*Margaret Atwood, "Owl Song"
W.H. Auden, "The Unknown Citizen"
*Charles Baudelaire, "A Carrion"
Aphra Behn, "Song: Love Armed"
William Blake, "Infant Sorrow"
*William Blake, "The Mental Traveller"
Anne Bradstreet, "Before the Birth of One of Her Children"
*Emily Brontë, "Stars"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways"
*Michelle Cliff, "The Land of Look Behind"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan: Or, A Vision in a Dream"
*Gregory Corso, "Marriage"
*Bei Dao, "Notes from the City of the Sun"
John Donne, "Batter My Heart"
*John Donne, "The Flea"
Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Sympathy"
T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
*T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men"
*Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Constantly Risking Absurdity"
*Louise Glück, "Celestial Music"
*Seamus Heaney, "Personal Helicon"
*Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Pied Beauty"
*Brionne Janae, "Alternative Facts"
Ben Jonson, "To Celia"
John Keats, "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be"
John Keats, "Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art"
*Philip Larkin, "Sad Steps"
Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus"
Louisa Lopez, "Junior Year Abroad"
*Audre Lorde, "Learning to Write"
*Robert Lowell, "Skunk Hour"
John Milton, "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent"
*Naomi Shihab Nye, "To Manage"
*Edgar Allan Poe, "Annabelle Lee"
*Adelia Prado, "Denouement"
Edwin Arlington Robinson, "Miniver Cheevy"
William Shakespeare, "Let Me Not To the Marriage of True Minds"
William Shakespeare, "When, In Disgrace With Fortune and Men's Eyes"
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias"
*Stevie Smith, "Not Waving But Drowning"
Patricia Smith, "What It's Like To Be a Black Girl (For Those of You Who Aren't)"
*Tracy K. Smith, "Self Portrait as the Letter Y"
*Wallace Stevens, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Jonathan Swift, "A Description of the Morning"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses"
*Natasha Trethewey, "Incident"
*Phillis Wheatley, "To S.M., a young African Painter, on seeing his Works"
Walt Whitman, "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
*William Wordsworth, "I wandered lonely as a cloud"
William Wordsworth, "The Solitary Reaper"
William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the Swan"
William Butler Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
The Study of Drama
35. Reading Drama
Reading Drama Responsively
Susan Glaspell, Trifles
A SAMPLE CLOSE READING: An Annotated Section of Trifles
PERSPECTIVE: Susan Glaspell, "From the Short Story Version of Trifles"
Elements of Drama
*Lynn Nottage, "POOF!"
36. A Study of Sophocles
Theatrical Conventions of Greek Drama
Sophocles, Oedipus the King (trans. by David Grene)
Aristotle, "On Tragic Character"
Sigmund Freud, "On the Oedipus Complex"
Muriel Rukeyser, "On Oedipus the King"
David Wiles, "On Oedipus the King as a Political Play"
37. A Study of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Theater
The Range of Shakespeare's Drama: History, Comedy, and Tragedy
A Note on Reading Shakespeare
William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice
The Mayor of London (1597), "Objections to the Elizabethan Theater"
Lisa Jardine, "On Boy Actors in Female Roles"
Samuel Johnson, "On Shakespeare's Characters"
Jane Adamson, "On Desdemona's Role in Othello"
David Bevington, "On Othello's Heroic Struggle"
James Kincaid, "On the Value of Comedy in the Face of Tragedy"
38. Modern Drama
Realism and Naturalism
Experimental Drama
Theatrical Conventions of Modern Drama
*Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
39. A Critical Case Study: Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House (trans. R. Farquharson Sharp)
Ibsen, "Notes for A Doll's House"
-- "A Nineteenth-Century Husband's Letter to his Wife"
Barry Witham and John Lutterbie, "A Marxist Approach to A Doll's House"
Carol Strongin Tufts, "A Psychoanalytic Reading of A Doll's House"
Joan Templeton, "Is A Doll's House a Feminist Text?"
Questions for Writing: Applying a Critical Strategy
A SAMPLE STUDENT PAPER: On the Other Side of the Slammed Door in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House
40. Contemporary Drama
*David Auburn, Proof
Beyond Realism
The Avant-Garde
Theater of the Absurd
Theater of Cruelty
Musical Theater
41. A Collection of Contemporary Plays
*Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party
*Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive
August Wilson, Fences
PERSPECTIVE: David Savran, "An Interview with August Wilson"
Strategies for Reading and Writing
42. Critical Strategies for Reading
Critical Thinking
Formalist Strategies
Biographical Strategies
Psychological Strategies
Historical Strategies
Marxist Criticism
New Historicist Criticism
Cultural Criticism
Gender Strategies
Feminist Criticism
LGBTQ+ Criticism
Mythological Strategies
Reader-Response Strategies
Deconstructionist Strategies
43. Writing about Literature
Why Am I Being Asked to Do This?
From Reading and Discussion to Writing
Annotating the Text and Journal Note Taking
Choosing a Topic
More Focused Prewriting
Arguing about Literature
Writing a Draft
Textual Evidence: Using Quotations, Summarizing, and Paraphrasing
Writing the Introduction and Conclusion
Revising and Editing
Questions for Writing: A Revision ChecklistTypes of Writing Assignments
A SAMPLE STUDENT EXPLICATION: A Reading of Emily Dickinson's "There's a certain Slant of light"
A SAMPLE STUDENT ANALYSIS: Memory in Elizabeth Bishop's "Manners"
Comparison and Contrast
A SAMPLE STUDENT COMPARISON: The Struggle for Women's Self-Definition in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and James Joyce's "Eveline"Writing about Fiction, Poetry, And Drama
Writing about Fiction
Questions for Responsive Reading and Writing about Fiction
A SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY: John Updike's A & P as a State of Mind
Writing about Poetry
Questions for Responsive Reading and Writing about Poetry
The Elements Together
John Donne, Death Be Not Proud
A SAMPLE CLOSE READING: An Annotated Version of "Death Be Not Proud"
A Sample First Response
Organizing Your Thoughts
A Sample Informal Outline
The Elements and Theme
A SAMPLE EXPLICATION: The Use of Conventional Metaphors for Death in John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud"
Writing about Drama
Questions for Responsive Reading and Writing about Drama
A SAMPLE STUDENT PAPER: The Feminist Evidence in Susan Glaspell's Trifles
44. The Literary Research Paper
Choosing a Topic
Finding Sources
Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes
Developing a Thesis and Organizing the Paper
Documenting Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
The List of Works Cited
Parenthetical References
A SAMPLE STUDENT PAPER: How William Faulkner's Narrator Cultivates a Rose for Emily
The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature (Hardcover)
Twelfth Edition| 2020
Michael Meyer; D. Quentin Miller
Michael Meyer
D. Quentin Miller
D. Quentin Miller, Professor of English, has taught literature and writing at Suffolk University in Boston since 2000. Prior to that he taught at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, at the University of Connecticut (where he wrote his dissertation under the direction of Michael Meyer), and in a variety of other settings, including prisons. Miller is the author, editor, or co-editor of a dozen books and over two dozen critical essays in collections and in scholarly journals such as American Literature, African American Review, and The James Baldwin Review. He is an internationally renowned scholar on the works of James Baldwin and has also published reviews in such publications as TLS and original fiction. His most recent books are The Routledge Introduction to the American Novel (2024), James Baldwin in Context (2019), Understanding John Edgar Wideman (2018), American Literature in Transition: 1980-1990 (2018), and The Routledge Introduction to African American Literature (2016).
The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature (Hardcover)
Twelfth Edition| 2020
Michael Meyer; D. Quentin Miller
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