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Date
Sponsors
UA Poetry Center
Reading Series
Location
Modern Languages Auditorium
Diane Ackerman
This reading was given six years before the publication of Jaguar of Sweet Laughter and thirteen years before the publication of I Praise My Destroyer. It also took place during the same year the poet received the Peter I. B. Lavan Award.
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"Halley's Comet"
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Description
Differs from published version.
Citation
Ackerman, Diane. Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems. New York: Random House, 1991.
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"Amphibians"
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Citation
Ackerman, Diane. Lady Faustus. New York: William Morrow, 1983.
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"A Fine, a Private Place"
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Ackerman, Diane. Lady Faustus. New York: William Morrow, 1983.
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"Lindbergh"
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Ackerman, Diane. Lady Faustus. New York: William Morrow, 1983.
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"Climbing Out"
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Ackerman, Diane. Lady Faustus. New York: William Morrow, 1983.
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"Sleeping Beauty of the Bronx"
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Ackerman, Diane. Lady Faustus. New York: William Morrow, 1983.
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"Zoe"
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Ackerman, Diane. Lady Faustus. New York: William Morrow, 1983.
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"Language Lab"
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Ackerman, Diane. Lady Faustus. New York: William Morrow, 1983.
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"Spiders"
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Ackerman, Diane. Lady Faustus. New York: William Morrow, 1983.
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"A. R. Ammons Amid the Fungi"
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Citation
Ackerman, Diane. Wife of Light. New York: William Morrow, 1978.
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Track Title
"Lines Written in a Pittsburgh Skyscraper"
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Citation
Ackerman, Diane. Lady Faustus. New York: William Morrow, 1983.
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"When You Take Me from this Good Rich Soil"
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Citation
Ackerman, Diane. The Planets: A Comic Pastoral. New York: William Morrow, 1976.
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"Intensive Care"
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Citation
Ackerman, Diane. Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems. New York: Random House, 1991.
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Track Title
"Grand Canyon"
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Citation
Ackerman, Diane. Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems. New York: Random House, 1991.
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Track Title
"You Will Think This a Dream"
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Description
Differs from published version.
Citation
Ackerman, Diane. I Praise My Destroyer. New York: Random House, 1998.
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Track Title
"Anne Donne to Her Husband"
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Citation
Ackerman, Diane. Wife of Light. New York: William Morrow, 1978.
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Track Title
"Space Shuttle"
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Ackerman, Diane. Lady Faustus. New York: William Morrow, 1983.
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Track Title
"Ode to the Alien"
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Citation
Ackerman, Diane. Wife of Light. New York: William Morrow, 1978.
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