David Wojahn - September 16, 1992

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UA Poetry Center

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Modern Languages Auditorium
David Wojahn

David Wojahn reads primarily from his then-manuscript Late Empire (1994), which would be published two years later. He also reads four sections of his sonnet sequence on rock and roll from Mystery Train (1990).

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Introduction
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by Alison Hawthorne Deming

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"Human Form"
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Wojahn, David. Late Empire. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.

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"The First Six Seals"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Wojahn, David. Late Empire. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.

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"Elvis Moving a Small Cloud: The Desert Near Las Vegas, 1976"
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Wojahn, David. Mystery Train. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990.

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"'It's Only Rock and Roll but I Like It': the Fall of Saigon, 1975"
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Wojahn, David. Mystery Train. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990.

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"Francis Ford Coppola and Anthropologist Interpreter Teaching Gartewienna Tribesmen to Sing 'Light My Fire,' Philippine Jungle, 1978"
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Wojahn, David. Mystery Train. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990.

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"The Assassination of John Lennon as Depicted by the Madame Tussaud Wax Museum, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1987"
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Wojahn, David. Mystery Train. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990.

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"White Lanterns"
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Differs slightly from published form.

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Wojahn, David. Late Empire. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.

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"Xerox of a Photograph of Bergen-Belsen"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Wojahn, David. Late Empire. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.

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"Tribute and Ash"
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Wojahn, David. Late Empire. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.

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"Workmen Photographed Inside the Reactor"
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Differs from published version.

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Wojahn, David. Late Empire. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.

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