Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present
Demeter, 220
Democracy, 204
Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry,
303
Democratic National Committee, 8
Denver (character), 285
DePauw University, 242
depression, 225
Derrida, Jacques, 18
Descending Figure, The, 237
Descent of Man, 164
Desdemona—A Play about a Handkerchief,
48
Desesperanto: Poems 1999-2002, 125
Desirable Daughters, 65
Desire’s Door, 276
Dessa Rose, 24, 35, 68
Devil in a Blue Dress, 27, 34, 70, 75
Devotees in the Garden of Love, 34, 47
Dew Breaker, The, 61
Dhalgren, 32
Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist
Revolution, The, 4
Dial Press, 211
Diamond Cutters and Other Poems, The,
313
Dick, Philip K., 70, 75
Dickinson, Emily, 154
Dictee, 60, 137
Didion, Joan, 7, 14, 204–211, 372
Dien Cai Dau, 33, 141, 147
Dietz, Steven, 44
Dillard, Annie, 61
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, 68
Dinner with Friends, 47
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of
June Jordan, 33
Dirty Girls on Top, 68
Dirty Girls Social Club, The, 68
Dirty Realists, 5
Disappearances: Selected Poems, 124
Disappearing Acts, 26, 33
Disappearing Moon Café, 15
Disney, 40
Dispatches, 140, 146
Dispossessed, The, 124
Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, The, 64
“Distance,” 174
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee, 61
“Diving into the Wreck,” 312
Diving into the Wreck: Poems, 1971–1972,
313
Division Street, 48
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, 70,
75
Dobbins, Henry (character), 296
Doctorow, E. L., 5, 69, 131, 211–218
Dog Problem, The, 48
Dolphin, The, 126
Domestic Work, 25, 35, 128
Dominican Americans, 186
Dominican Republic, 59, 219
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” 11–12
Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope, 37
Donne, John, 313
Don Quixote, 372
Door in the Hive, A, 64
Doors, the, 205
Dorris, Aza, 225
Dorris, Michael (North, Milou), 105, 114,
225
Dorris, Pallas, 225
Dorris, Persia, 225
Doty, Mark, 6
Doubt: A Parable, 40
Douglas, Ellen, 233
Douglas, Michael, 181
Dove, Elvira Hord, 218
Dove, Ray A., 218
Dove, Rita, 25, 51, 218–224
Downey, Robert, Jr., 181
Down on the Delta, 160
Down the Road, 44
Drake (character), 290
drama, 6, 36–49, 254, 269, 347
African American, 26
Greek, 254
Dread, 59
Dreamer, 32
Dreamgirls, 37, 43
Dream of a Common Language, Poems,
1974 – 1977, The, 314
Dream of the Unif ied Field: Selected Poems,
1974-1994, The, 62, 119, 125
Drinking the Rain, 67
Drinks before Dinner, 213
DRIVE: The First Quartet, 124
Drop City, 165
“Drowning Incident, A,” 276
Dubus, Andre, 5