John Ciardi - March 22, 1971

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UA Poetry Center

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Modern Languages Auditorium
John Ciardi

John Ciardi reads widely from his work, including children's verse, two long poems from his then-forthcoming Lives of X (1971), and poems that would later be published in The Little That Is All (1974) and The Birds of Pompeii (1985).

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Introduction
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by Lois Shelton

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Selections from his children's verse
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"The Benefits of an Education"
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Ciardi, John. Lives of X. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1971.

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"A Five-Year Step"
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Ciardi, John. Lives of X. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1971.

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"An Emeritus Addresses the School"
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Ciardi, John. The Little That Is All. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1974.

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"A Man Came Tuesday"
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Ciardi, John. The Little That Is All. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1974.

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"An Apology for Not Invoking the Muse"
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Ciardi, John. The Little That Is All. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1974.

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"Exit Line"
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Ciardi, John. The Little That Is All. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1974.

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"Biography"
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Ciardi, John. Homeward to America. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1940.

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"Exegisis of an Allegorical Text"
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Ciardi, John. The Birds of Pompeii. Fayetteville, AK: University of Arkansas Press, 1985.

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"On the Orthodoxy and Creed of My Power Mower"
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Ciardi, John. The Little That Is All. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1974. (First published in 1972 as a Pomegranate Press broadside.)

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LaVerne Harrell Clark
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The University of Arizona Poetry Center
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