Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton
Reading Date: Wednesday, October 22, 1975
- Introduction
- "sisters"
- "leanna's poem"
- "lucy one-eye"
- "if mama"
- "the lost baby poem"
- "tyrone (1)"
- "willie b (1)"
- "tyrone (2)"
- "willie b (2)"
- "tyrone (3)"
- "willie b (3)"
- "tyrone (4)"
- "willie b (4)"
- "buffalo war"
- "i went to the valley"
- "new year"
- "homage to my hair"
- "homage to my hips"
- "what the mirror said"
- "i was born with twelve fingers"
- "lament for anne sexton"
- "for max"
- "listen children"
- "so close"
- "richard penniman"
- "light"
- "forgiving my father"
- "poem to my yellow coat"
- "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, rumble, young man, rumble"
- "there is a girl inside"
- "admonitions"
- "my sisters are sad"
- "the 38th year of my life"
Introduction-924
by Richard Shelton
"sisters"-1049
Clifton, Lucille. An Ordinary Woman. New York: Random House, 1974.
"leanna's poem"-1050
Clifton, Lucille. An Ordinary Woman. New York: Random House, 1974.
"lucy one-eye"-1051
Clifton, Lucille. An Ordinary Woman. New York: Random House, 1974.
"if mama"-1052
Clifton, Lucille. An Ordinary Woman. New York: Random House, 1974.
"the lost baby poem"-1053
Clifton, Lucille. Good News About the Earth. New York: Random House, 1972.
"tyrone (1)"-1054
Clifton, Lucille. Good Times. New York: Random House, 1969.
"willie b (1)"-1055
Clifton, Lucille. Good Times. New York: Random House, 1969.
"tyrone (2)"-1056
Clifton, Lucille. Good Times. New York: Random House, 1969.
"willie b (2)"-1057
Clifton, Lucille. Good Times. New York: Random House, 1969.
"tyrone (3)"-1058
Clifton, Lucille. Good Times. New York: Random House, 1969.
"willie b (3)"-1059
Clifton, Lucille. Good Times. New York: Random House, 1969.
"tyrone (4)"-1060
Clifton, Lucille. Good Times. New York: Random House, 1969.
"willie b (4)"-1061
Clifton, Lucille. Good Times. New York: Random House, 1969.
"buffalo war"-1062
Clifton, Lucille. Good Times. New York: Random House, 1969.
"i went to the valley"-1063
Clifton, Lucille. An Ordinary Woman. New York: Random House, 1974.
"new year"-1064
Introduced as "new year, 1975."
Annotation:
Clifton, Lucille. Two-Headed Woman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.
"homage to my hair"-1065
Clifton, Lucille. Two-Headed Woman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.
"homage to my hips"-1066
Clifton, Lucille. Two-Headed Woman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.
"what the mirror said"-1067
Clifton, Lucille. Two-Headed Woman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.
"i was born with twelve fingers"-1068
Clifton, Lucille. Two-Headed Woman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.
"lament for anne sexton"-1069
Unpublished.
"for max"-1070
Unpublished.
"listen children"-1071
Clifton, Lucille. Good News About the Earth. New York: Random House, 1972.
"so close"-1072
Clifton, Lucille. Good News About the Earth. New York: Random House, 1972.
"richard penniman"-1073
Clifton, Lucille. Good News About the Earth. New York: Random House, 1972.
"light"-1074
Clifton, Lucille. An Ordinary Woman. New York: Random House, 1974.
"forgiving my father"-1075
Clifton, Lucille. Two-Headed Woman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.
"poem to my yellow coat"-1076
Unpublished.
"float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, rumble, young man, rumble"-1077
Unpublished. Title taken from Drew 'Bundini' Brown.
"there is a girl inside"-1078
Clifton, Lucille. Two-Headed Woman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.
"admonitions"-1079
Clifton, Lucille. Good Times. New York: Random House, 1969.
"my sisters are sad"-1080
Unpublished draft.
"the 38th year of my life"-1081
Clifton, Lucille. An Ordinary Woman. New York: Random House, 1974.
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Series: Fall Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): Modern Languages Auditorium
Lucille Clifton reads poems published from 1969 to 1980. Her reading also includes exciting performances of drafts and unpublished poems.
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