Richard Shelton - September 2, 2010

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UA Poetry Center

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UA Poetry Center
Richard Shelton

In the first reading of the Poetry Center's 50th anniversary year, former Poetry Center Director and University of Arizona Regents' Professor Emeritus Richard Shelton reads from his books The Last Person to Hear Your Voice (2007) and Crossing the Yard (2007).

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Introduction
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by Alison Hawthorne Deming

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"The Draft Horse"
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Poem by Robert Frost, performed by Richard Shelton.

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Frost, Robert. In The Clearing. New York: Rinehart and Winston, 1962.

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"Jabberwocky"
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Poem by Lewis Carroll, performed by Richard Shelton.

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Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. London: Macmillan and Co., 1865.

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"The Golden Jubilee"
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Shelton, Richard. The Last Person to Hear Your Voice. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.

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"Getting On"
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Shelton, Richard. The Last Person to Hear Your Voice. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.

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"If I Were a Dog"
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Shelton, Richard. The Last Person to Hear Your Voice. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.

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"Texas Water Tastes like Turpentine"
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Shelton, Richard. The Last Person to Hear Your Voice. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.

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"Borderland"
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Shelton, Richard. The Last Person to Hear Your Voice. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.

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"Mother of God"
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Shelton, Richard. The Last Person to Hear Your Voice. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.

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Excerpt from Crossing the Yard
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Shelton, Richard. Crossing the Yard. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007.

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"One Morning"
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Shelton, Richard. The Last Person to Hear Your Voice. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.

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Richard Shelton
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Cybele Knowles
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Former Poetry Center Directors Richard and Lois Shelton
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Christine Krikliwy
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