Lucille Clifton - September 23, 1987

Date
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UA Poetry Center

Reading Series
Location
Modern Languages Auditorium
Lucille Clifton

In this performance, Lucille Clifton reads primarily from Next: New Poems and begins the performance with an excerpt from her children's book Sonora Beautiful. Clifton remarks that this is her first public reading of the poem series "Ten Oxherding Pictures."

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Excerpt from Sonora Beautiful
Description
Excerpt begins with Chapter 2.
Citation
Clifton, Lucille. Sonora Beautiful. New York: Dutton, 1981.
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"the death of crazy horse"
Citation
Clifton, Lucille. Next: New Poems. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1987.
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"the message of crazy horse"
Citation
Clifton, Lucille. Next: New Poems. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1987.
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"the death of thelma sayles"
Citation
Clifton, Lucille. Next: New Poems. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1987.
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"the message of thelma sayles"
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Clifton, Lucille. Next: New Poems. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1987.
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"the death of fred clifton"
Citation
Clifton, Lucille. Next: New Poems. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1987.
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"i'm going back to my true identity"
Citation
Clifton, Lucille. Next: New Poems. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1987.
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Track Title
"the message of fred clifton"
Citation
Clifton, Lucille. Next: New Poems. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1987.
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"in white america"
Citation
Clifton, Lucille. Next: New Poems. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1987.
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Track Title
"shapeshifter poems"
Citation
Clifton, Lucille. Next: New Poems. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1987.
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Track Title
Excerpt from The Lucky Stone
Citation
Clifton, Lucille. The Lucky Stone. New York: Delacorte Press, 1979.
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Track Title
"Ten Oxherding Pictures"
Citation
Clifton, Lucille. Voices: Poems. Rochester: BOA Editions, 2008.
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Track Title
"california lessons"
Citation
Clifton, Lucille. Next: New Poems. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1987.
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Image
Lucille Clifton
Photographer
Lois Shelton
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