Maxine Chernoff - November 3, 1993

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Reading Series
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Modern Languages Auditorium
Maxine Chernoff

Maxine Chernoff reads widely from Leap Year Day: New and Selected Poems (1990). In addition to poems and prose poems published over several decades, she reads work that would later be published in World: Poems 1991-2001 (2001). She closes the reading with a short story from Signs of Devotion (1993) and an excerpt from her then-unpublished novel American Heaven (1996).

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"Toothache"
Citation
Chernoff, Maxine. Leap Year Day: New and Selected Poems. Chicago: Another Chicago Press, 1990. Originally published in Vegetable Emergency (Venice, CA: Beyond Baroque Foundation, 1976).
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"The Man Struck Twenty Times by Lightning"
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Chernoff, Maxine. Leap Year Day: New and Selected Poems. Chicago: Another Chicago Press, 1990. Originally published in Utopia TV Store (Chicago: The Yellow Press, 1979).
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"What the Dead Eat"
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Chernoff, Maxine. Leap Year Day: New and Selected Poems. Chicago: Another Chicago Press, 1990. Originally published in Utopia TV Store (Chicago: The Yellow Press, 1979).
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"Biographia Literaria"
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Chernoff, Maxine. Leap Year Day: New and Selected Poems. Chicago: Another Chicago Press, 1990. Originally published in New Faces of 1952 (Ithaca, NY: Ithaca House, 1985).
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"Breasts"
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Chernoff, Maxine. Leap Year Day: New and Selected Poems. Chicago: Another Chicago Press, 1990. Originally published in New Faces of 1952 (Ithaca, NY: Ithaca House, 1985).
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"Identity Principle"
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Chernoff, Maxine. Leap Year Day: New and Selected Poems. Chicago: Another Chicago Press, 1990. Originally published in New Faces of 1952 (Ithaca, NY: Ithaca House, 1985).
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"A Name"
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Chernoff, Maxine. Leap Year Day: New and Selected Poems. Chicago: Another Chicago Press, 1990. Originally published in New Faces of 1952 (Ithaca, NY: Ithaca House, 1985).
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"March"
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Chernoff, Maxine. Leap Year Day: New and Selected Poems. Chicago: Another Chicago Press, 1990. Originally published in New Faces of 1952 (Ithaca, NY: Ithaca House, 1985).
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"Miss Congeniality"
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Chernoff, Maxine. Leap Year Day: New and Selected Poems. Chicago: Another Chicago Press, 1990. Originally published in New Faces of 1952 (Ithaca, NY: Ithaca House, 1985).
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"Poised"
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Chernoff, Maxine. Leap Year Day: New and Selected Poems. Chicago: Another Chicago Press, 1990.
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"Measuring"
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Chernoff, Maxine. Leap Year Day: New and Selected Poems. Chicago: Another Chicago Press, 1990.
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"Photo in LIFE"
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Chernoff, Maxine. World: Poems 1991-2001. Cambridge, U.K.: Salt, 2001.
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"Not"
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Chernoff, Maxine. World: Poems 1991-2001. Cambridge, U.K.: Salt, 2001.
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"Jury Duty"
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Chernoff, Maxine. Signs of Devotion. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
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Excerpt from American Heaven
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Chernoff, Maxine. American Heaven. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1996.
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