| Description |
1 online resource (133 pages). |
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data file rda |
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Poetry |
| Series |
American Poets Continuum ; v.Vol. 59 |
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American poets continuum series ; v. 60.
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| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- the times -- signs -- moonchild -- dialysis -- donor -- libation -- the photograph: a lynching -- jasper texas 1998 -- alabama 9/15/63 -- what i think when i ride the train -- praise song -- august -- study the masters -- lazarus (first day) -- lazarus (second day) -- lazarus (third day) -- birthday 1999 -- grief -- report from the angel of eden -- album -- why some people be mad at me sometimes -- sorrow song -- female -- my dream about being white -- my dream about the cows -- my dream about time -- my dream about falling |
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My dream about the second coming -- my dream about God -- my dream about the poet -- the death of thelma sayles -- lives -- the message of thelma sayles -- the death of fred clifton -- shapeshifter poems -- quilting -- white lady -- the birth of language -- sleeping beauty -- poem in praise of menstruation -- peeping tom -- wild blessings -- photograph -- lot's wife 1988 -- poem to my uterus -- to my last period -- wishes for sons -- How art thou fallen . . . -- remembering the birth of lucifer -- whispered to lucifer -- eve's version -- lucifer understanding at last -- the garden of delight |
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Adam thinking -- eve thinking -- the story thus far -- lucifer speaks in his own voice -- blessing the boats -- imagining bear -- the women you are accustomed to -- song at midnight -- here yet be dragons -- the yeti poet returns to his village to tell his story -- crabbing -- the earth is a living thing -- if i should -- further note to clark -- final note to clark -- note, passed to superman -- leda 1 -- leda 2 -- leda 3 -- far memory -- telling our stories -- fox -- the coming of fox -- dear fox -- leaving fox -- one year later -- a dream of foxes -- amazons -- lumpectomy eve -- 1994 |
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Hag riding -- rust -- slaveships -- memphis -- memory -- what did she know, when did she know it -- lorena -- heaven -- acknowledgments -- about the author -- colophon |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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African Americans -- Poetry.
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African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Clifton, Lucille Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 Rochester : BOA Editions Ltd.,c2020 9781880238882 |
| ISBN |
9781880238509 (electronic bk.) |
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