Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Greetings from the Commonwealth!
  • "Pennsylvania," Gabriel Welsch
  • "The Map," Kathryn Hellerstein
  • "Coming East from Cleveland to Philadelphia at Harvest," Jeanne Murray Walker
  • "Route 81," David Chin
  • "Me 'n Bruce Springsteen Take My Baby Off to College," Barbara Crooker
  • 2. Beginnings: Philadelphia, "Dutch" Country, and Their Environs
  • "Philly Things," David Livewell
  • "Colors," Jeanne Murray Walker
  • "Rowers on the Schuylkill," Leonard Kress
  • "Listening for Bridge Builders," David Livewell
  • "Crazy Mary Rides the El," Michele A. Belluomini
  • "Spiritual Exercise, Kensington, Philadelphia," Leonard Kress
  • "If You Are Reading This," Lynn Levin
  • "Preliminary Sketches: Philadelphia," Elizabeth Alexander
  • "Our Lady of the Cabbages," Deborah Burnham
  • "10 pm at a Philadelphia Recreation Center," Peter Krok
  • "The Star Show," Robin Becker
  • "A Poem for a Black Boy," Sonia Sanchez
  • "Chester County Winter Day," George Fleck
  • "Spiritual Morning," Robin Becker
  • "A Hill in Pennsylvania," Nathaniel Smith
  • "In the Small World," Sandra Kohler
  • "Mennonites," Julia Kasdorf
  • "Mennonite Farm Wife," Janet Kauffman
  • "Female Ancestor," Ann Hostetler
  • "Buggy Ride at Sixteen," Marjorie Maddox
  • "Papaya: Lancaster County," Juanita Brunk
  • "Back with the Quakers," Betsy Sholl
  • "Before the Silver Chord Is Loosed," Helen Mallon
  • "In Carpenter's Woods," Gerald Stern
  • "Halfway," Maxine Kumin
  • "Potter's Field, Germantown," Robin Hiteshew
  • "Wallace Stevens House Prayer," Heather Thomas
  • "Shillington," John Updike
  • "Route 222: Reading to Kutztown," Heather Thomas
  • "The Idea of the Ordinary," Carmine Sarracino
  • 3. Circling East: Mines, Mountains, and Mills
  • "Ode to Coal," Sherry Fairchok
  • "Coalscape," Craig Czury
  • "Coal Crackers," James Hoch
  • "Burning Mountain," W. S. Merwin
  • "Christ Comes to Centralia," Barbara Crooker
  • "Centralia (October 31, 1986)," Karen Blomain
  • "This Is Not My Cousin," Valerie Fox
  • "What They Wanted Us to Bring Back," Sherry Fairchok
  • "Family Portrait, 1933," Peter Oresick
  • "Working the Face," Jay Parini
  • "Coal Train," Jay Parini
  • "The Miner's Wife Leaves Home," Karen Blomain
  • "So the Coal Was Gone," Thomas Kielty Blomain
  • "Showing a Friend My Town," Harry Humes
  • "March 10, 1951," Craig Czury
  • "Bones & Ashes," Helen Ruggieri
  • "Photograph," Anthony Petrosky
  • "The Strippings," Linda Tomol Pennisi
  • "Cousin, Will You Take My Hand?" Jerry Wemple
  • "Susquehanna: The Projects," Ruth Ellen Kocher
  • "The Field (an Excerpt)," Linda Tomol Pennisi
  • "The Jeweler," Peter Oresick
  • "Real Faux Pearls," Betsy Sholl
  • "Polka Dancing to Eddie Blazonczyk and His Versatones in Coaldale, Pennsylvania," Leonard Kress
  • "A Different House," Paul Martin
  • "In Cursive," Len Roberts
  • "Spring Peepers, April, Wassergass," Len Roberts
  • "Easter Sunday, Seisholtzville," Ann E. Michael