Lucille Clifton - October 22, 1975

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UA Poetry Center

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Modern Languages Auditorium
Lucille Clifton

Lucille Clifton reads poems published from 1969 to 1980. Her reading also includes exciting performances of drafts and unpublished poems.

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Introduction
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by Richard Shelton

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"sisters"
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Clifton, Lucille. An Ordinary Woman. New York: Random House, 1974.

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"leanna's poem"
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Clifton, Lucille. An Ordinary Woman. New York: Random House, 1974.

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"lucy one-eye"
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Clifton, Lucille. An Ordinary Woman. New York: Random House, 1974.

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"if mama"
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Clifton, Lucille. An Ordinary Woman. New York: Random House, 1974.

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"the lost baby poem"
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Clifton, Lucille. Good News About the Earth. New York: Random House, 1972.

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"tyrone (1)"
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Clifton, Lucille. Good Times. New York: Random House, 1969.

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"willie b (1)"
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Clifton, Lucille. Good Times. New York: Random House, 1969.

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"tyrone (2)"
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Clifton, Lucille. Good Times. New York: Random House, 1969.

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"willie b (2)"
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Clifton, Lucille. Good Times. New York: Random House, 1969.

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"tyrone (3)"
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Clifton, Lucille. Good Times. New York: Random House, 1969.

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"willie b (3)"
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Clifton, Lucille. Good Times. New York: Random House, 1969.

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"tyrone (4)"
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Clifton, Lucille. Good Times. New York: Random House, 1969.

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"willie b (4)"
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Clifton, Lucille. Good Times. New York: Random House, 1969.

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"buffalo war"
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Clifton, Lucille. Good Times. New York: Random House, 1969.

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"i went to the valley"
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Clifton, Lucille. An Ordinary Woman. New York: Random House, 1974.

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"new year"
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Introduced as "new year, 1975."

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Clifton, Lucille. Two-Headed Woman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.

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"homage to my hair"
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Clifton, Lucille. Two-Headed Woman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.

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"homage to my hips"
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Clifton, Lucille. Two-Headed Woman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.

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"what the mirror said"
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Clifton, Lucille. Two-Headed Woman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.

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"i was born with twelve fingers"
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Clifton, Lucille. Two-Headed Woman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.

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"lament for anne sexton"
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Unpublished.

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"for max"
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Unpublished.

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"listen children"
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Clifton, Lucille. Good News About the Earth. New York: Random House, 1972.

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"so close"
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Clifton, Lucille. Good News About the Earth. New York: Random House, 1972.

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"richard penniman"
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Clifton, Lucille. Good News About the Earth. New York: Random House, 1972.

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"light"
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Clifton, Lucille. An Ordinary Woman. New York: Random House, 1974.

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"forgiving my father"
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Clifton, Lucille. Two-Headed Woman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.

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"poem to my yellow coat"
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Unpublished.

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"float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, rumble, young man, rumble"
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Unpublished. Title taken from Drew 'Bundini' Brown.

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"there is a girl inside"
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Clifton, Lucille. Two-Headed Woman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.

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"admonitions"
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Clifton, Lucille. Good Times. New York: Random House, 1969.

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"my sisters are sad"
Description

Unpublished draft.

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"the 38th year of my life"
Citation

Clifton, Lucille. An Ordinary Woman. New York: Random House, 1974.

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Lucille Clifton
Photographer
Lois Shelton
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Lucille Clifton
Photographer
LaVerne Harrell Clark
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