The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader

Preface by Barry Pateman ...... ................ . ........................ i
Short Chronology of Significant Dates ............... . . ..................... iv
Introduction .................. ............... ......... ............. vii
A Note on the Texts ........... ................. . . ..................... xi
Collected Prose
In Defense of Emma Goldman and the Right of Expropriation ............... ..... 1
They Who Marry Do III ...•...... .............. ................ ...... 11
Anarchism and American Traditions ... . ........ . .... ................ .... 21
The Dominant Idea ...... .... ........ . ........... . .................. 35
Direct Action ........ . . . .... ............. .... ...... ........ . ...... 47
The Economic Tendency of Freethought ............... .................... 63
Francisco Ferrer ... . ........ ................. ...... ................ 75
Sex Slavery.· .............. ............. ...... .... ............ . . . . 93
The Making of an Anarchist .... .............. ..... ............. . ..... 105
The Heart of Angiolillo ...... ..... ............... .... ............... 113
The Mexican Revolt .......... ....... . .......... ..... .......... .... 123
The Drama of the Nineteenth Century, .............. ..... ............... 129
Dyer D. Lum ............. ..................... .......... . ... . . . . . 147
Crime and Punishment ........ ................ . . ............ . ..... . 151
McKinley's Assassination from the Anarchist Standpoint . . ..... .......... . ... 173
The Eleventh of November, 1887 .................. . . ....... ............ 177
Collected Poetry
Bastard Born ......... ........ . ..... . ........ .... ................ 1 83
The Gods and the People ..... ................... ..... ....... ........ 189
And Thou Too ............. ................... ..... ...... ..... . ... 195
The Dirge of the Sea .... . .... ............ : ..... ..... ............... 197 
lAm ........ ......... . ........ .......... ........... . ........... 201
Love's Ghost .... . .............. ............... .................... 202
Life or Death . . . ........ . ... . ......................... . . .......... 204
The Toast of Despair .............. ................ .................. 205
Mary Wollstonecraft . . . . . .......... . ............ .................. . . 207
The Suicide's Defense ...... . ...... .......... ........................ 208
The Road Builders ................. ............... ............. . .... 210
Ave et Vale . . ..................... . , .......... ..................... 211
Marsh-Bloom ................. .................. .................. 215
Written-In-Red ................ ............ ....................... 216
The Worm Turns
Germinal ... .................. ........... ...................... 217
Ut Sementem Feeeris, Ita Metes ................ ...................... 218
Santa Agueda ................ .............. ..................... 219
The Feast of Vultures ............. ............ ..................... 220
Night at the Grave in Waldheim .................. .................... 223
The Hurricane ................ .......... ......................... 224
In Memoriam .............. ............... ...................... 226
John P. Altgeld .............. ........... ........ ......... . ... . ... 226
"Light Upon Waldheim" ........... ........ ........ ................. 227
Notes ....... .................. .............. ..................... 229