UA Poetry Center
Reading in Tucson for the second time in 1972, Ai reads from her manuscript then titled Wheel in a Ditch, which would be published the following year as Cruelty (1973), her first book. She also reads several poems that would appear in her second book, Killing Floor (1979), as well as several that remain uncollected.
Read by Ai.
Levine, Philip. They Feed They Lion. New York: Atheneum, 1972.
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Differs from published version.
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Differs from published version.
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Differs from published version.
Ai. "Christ’s Bracero." The Iowa Review, vol. 6, no. 2, Spring 1975, pp. 35-36.
Differs slightly from published version.
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Differs slightly from published version
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Ai. Killing Floor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979.
Differs from published version.
Ai. Killing Floor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979.
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Differs from published version.
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Ai. Cruelty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Published version bears the title "Almost Grown." Differs from published version.
Ai. Killing Floor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979.
