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Two-headed woman / by Lucille Clifton.
LIBRA - Rare PS3553.L45 T8 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clifton, Lucille, 1936-2010, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women authors.
- African Americans--Poetry.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 60 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.
- Contents:
- Homage to mine: Lucy and her girls
- I was born
- Homage to my hair
- Homage to my hips
- What the mirror said
- There is a girl
- To Merle
- August the 12th
- On the death of Allen's son
- Speaking of loss
- To Thelma who worried because I couldn't cook
- Poem on my fortieth birthday to my mother who died young
- Febraury 13, 1980
- Forgiving my father
- To the unborn and waiting children
- Aunt Agnes Hatcher tells
- The once and future
- Two-headed woman: In this garden
- The making of poems
- New year
- Sonora Desert poem
- My friends
- Wife
- I once knew a man
- Angels
- Conversation with my grandson, waiting to be conceived
- The mystery that
- The astrologer predicts at Mary's birth
- Anna speaks of the childhood of Mary her daughter
- Mary's dream
- How he is coming then
- Holy night
- A song of Mary
- Island Mary
- Mary
- For the blind
- For the mad
- For the lame
- For the mute
- God waits
- The light that came
- The light that came to Lucille Clifton: Testament
- Incandescence
- Mother, I am
- Perhaps
- Explanations
- Friends come
- To Joan
- Confession
- In populated.
- Notes:
- "Copyright ©1980 by Th University of Massachusetts Press.
- "This volume is the sixth recipient of the Juniper Prize, presented annually by The University of Massachusetts Press for a volume of original poetry"--Colophon.
- "Some of the books in this collection have been previously been published"--verso of title page.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0870233092
- OCLC:
- 6357645
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