Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton
Reading Date: Wednesday, September 23, 1987
- Excerpt from Sonora Beautiful
- "the death of crazy horse"
- "the message of crazy horse"
- "the death of thelma sayles"
- "the message of thelma sayles"
- "the death of fred clifton"
- "i'm going back to my true identity"
- "the message of fred clifton"
- "in white america"
- "shapeshifter poems"
- Excerpt from The Lucky Stone
- "Ten Oxherding Pictures"
- "california lessons"
Excerpt from Sonora Beautiful-1082
Excerpt begins with Chapter 2.
Annotation:
Clifton, Lucille. Sonora Beautiful. New York: Dutton, 1981.
"the death of crazy horse"-1083
Clifton, Lucille. Next: New Poems. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1987.
"the message of crazy horse"-1084
Clifton, Lucille. Next: New Poems. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1987.
"the death of thelma sayles"-1085
Clifton, Lucille. Next: New Poems. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1987.
"the message of thelma sayles"-1086
Clifton, Lucille. Next: New Poems. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1987.
"the death of fred clifton"-1087
Clifton, Lucille. Next: New Poems. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1987.
"i'm going back to my true identity"-1088
Clifton, Lucille. Next: New Poems. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1987.
"the message of fred clifton"-1089
Clifton, Lucille. Next: New Poems. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1987.
"in white america"-1090
Clifton, Lucille. Next: New Poems. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1987.
"shapeshifter poems"-1091
Clifton, Lucille. Next: New Poems. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1987.
Excerpt from The Lucky Stone-1092
Clifton, Lucille. The Lucky Stone. New York: Delacorte Press, 1979.
"Ten Oxherding Pictures"-1093
Clifton, Lucille. Voices: Poems. Rochester: BOA Editions, 2008.
"california lessons"-1094
Clifton, Lucille. Next: New Poems. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1987.
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Series: Fall Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): Modern Languages Auditorium
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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