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by Clifton, Lucille

• ISBN13: 9780918526618
• ISBN10: 0918526612
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-09-01
• Publisher: Boa Editions

Table of Contents

We are all next
Album	15	(1)
Winnie song	16	(1)
there	17	(1)
what spells raccoon to me	18	(1)
this belief	19	(1)
why some people be mad at me sometimes	20	(1)
sorrow song	21	(1)
I. creation	22	(1)
I. at gettysburg	23	(1)
I. at nagasaki	24	(1)
I. at jonestown	25	(1)
atlantic is a sea of bones	26	(1)
cruelty. don't talk to me about cruely	27	(1)
the woman in the camp	28	(1)
the lost women	29	(1)
4 daughters	30	(1)
grown daughter	31	(1)
here is another bone to pick with you	32	(1)
female	33	(1)
if our grandchild be a girl	34	(1)
this is the tale	35	(1)
my dream about being white	36	(1)
my dream about the cows	37	(1)
my dream about time	38	(1)
my dream about falling	39	(1)
my dream about the second coming	40	(1)
my dream about God	41	(1)
my dream about the poet	42	(1)
morning mirror	43	(4)
or next
the death of crazy horse	47	(1)
crazy horse names his daughter	48	(1)
crazy horse instructs the young men but in their grief they forget	49	(1)
the message of crazy horse	50	(1)
the death of thelma sayles	51	(1)
lives	52	(1)
the message of thelma sayles	53	(1)
the death of joanne c.	54	(1)
enter my mother	55	(1)
leukemia as white rabbit	56	(1)
incantation	57	(1)
chemotherapy	58	(1)
she won't ever forgive me	59	(1)
the one in the next bed is dying	60	(1)
leukemia as dream/ritual	61	(1)
the message of jo	62	(1)
chorus: lucille	63	(1)
the death of fred clifton	64	(1)
``i'm going back to my true identity''	65	(1)
my wife	66	(1)
the message of fred clifton	67
singing
in white america
i come to read them poems	71
the history	72
the tour	73
the hall	74
the reading	75
it is late	76
shapeshifter poems
the legend is whispered	77
who is there to protect her	78
if the little girl lies	79
the poem at the end of the world	80
california lessons
geography	81
history	82
botany	83
semantics	84
metaphysics	85