How to Carry Water by Clifton, Lucille -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword ■ From Early Uncollected Poems (1965–1969)

5/23/67 R.I.P. Spring Thought for Thelma Everytime I Talk about A Poem Written for Many Moynihans The Poet is Thirty Two Take Somebody Like Me

■ From Good Times (1969)

My Mama Moved among the Days Miss Rosie The 1st Running across to the Lot If I Stand in My Window For deLawd Ca’line’s Prayer Generations Flowers

■ From Good News about the Earth (1972)

After Kent State Being Property Once Myself The Lost Baby Poem Apology Lately Listen Children The News The Bodies Broken on song Africa Earth God send easter So Close Poem for My Sisters

■ From Uncollected Poems (1973–1974)

Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival

■ From an Ordinary Woman (1974)

In Salem Salt New Bones Harriet Roots To Ms. Ann Last Note to My Girls A Visit to Gettysburg This Morning The Lesson of the Falling Leaves I Am Running into a New Year Turning My Poem Lucy One-Eye If Mama I Was Born in a Hotel Light Cutting Greens I Went to the Valley At Last We Killed the Roaches In the Evenings Breaklight Some Dreams Hang in the Air The Thirty Eighth Year

■ From Uncollected Poems (ca. 1975)

Anniversary 5/10/74 November 1, 1975 “We Do Not Know Very Much About Lucille’s Inner Life”

■ From Two-Headed Woman (1980)

Lucy and Her Girls I Was Born with Twelve Fingers What the Mirror Said There is a Girl Inside To Merle August the 12th Speaking of Loss Februrary 13, 1980 New Year Sonora Desert Poem My Friends I Once Knew a Man The Mystery That Surely is Present The Astrologer Predicts at Mary’s Birth A Song of Mary Island Mary Mary Mary Astonished by God The Light That Came to Lucille Clifton Testament Mother, I Am Mad To Joan In Populated Air

■ From Next (1987)

There This Belief Why Some People Be Mad at Me Sometimes Sorrow Song Atlantic is a Sea of Bones Cruelty. Don’t Talk to Me about Cruelty The Lost Women My Dream about the Cows My Dream about the Second Coming The Death of Thelma Sayles The Message of Thelma Sayles The Death of Joanne C. Enter my Mother Leukemia as White Rabbit Chemotherapy The Message of Jo The Death of Fred Clifton “I’m Going Back to My True Identity” In White America Shapeshifter Poems

■ From Quilting (1991)

I Am Accused of Tending to the Past Note to Myself Poem Beginning in No and Ending in Yes Slave Cabin, Sotterly Plantation, Maryland, 1989 Whose Side Are You On? Shooting Star This is for the Mice That Live Man and Wife Poem in Praise of Menstruation The Killing of the Trees Wild Blessings Somewhere When I Stand around among Poets Water Sign Woman Photograph December 7, 1989 To My Friend, Jerina Poem to My Uterus To My Last Period The Mother’s Story As He Was Dying Blessing the Boats

■ From The Book of Light (1992)

Light June 20 Daughters Sam Thel 11/10 Again she lived Won’t You Celebrate with Me It Was a Dream Each Morning I Pull Myself Here Yet Be Dragons The Earth is a Living Thing Move Samson Predicts from Gaza the Philadelphia Fire If I Should Further Note to Clark Begin Here Night Vision Fury Cigarettes Leda 1 Leda 2 Leda 3 Brothers

■ From Uncollected Poems (1993)

Hometown 1993 Ones Like Us

■ From The Terrible Stories (1996)

Telling Our Stories The Coming of Fox Dear Fox Leaving Fox A Dream of Foxes Amazons Lumpectomy Eve 1994 Hag Riding Rust Shadows Entering the South The Mississippi River Empties into the Gulf Old Man River Auction Street Memphis What Comes after This blake Evening and My Dead Once Husband In the Same Week Heaven Lorena In the Meantime

■ From Blessing the Boats (2000)

The Times Dialysis Libation Jasper Texas 1998 Alabama 9/15/63 Praise Song August Study the Masters Birthday 1999 Grief

■ From Mercy (2004)

the Gift Out of Body Oh Antic God April Children Surely I Am Able to Write Poems Mulberry Fields Cancer In the Mirror Blood Walking the Blind Dog Hands Wind On the St. Marys River The Tale the Shepherds Tell the Sheep Stop

■ From Voices (2008)

Aunt Jemima Cream of Wheat Sorrows This is What I Know 6/27/06

■ From Uncollected Poems (2006–2010)

Birth-Day Mother-Tongue: The Land of Nod Mother-Tongue: We Are Dying

■ From Last Poems & Drafts (2006–2010)

Some Points along Some of the Meridians New Orleans After the Children Died She Started Bathing In the Middle of the Eye

■ Previously Uncollected Poems

All Praises Bouquet Sam, Jr. Mother Here is My Child Poem To My Yellow Coat Poem With Rhyme Rounding the Curve Near Ellicot City Entering Earth To Black Poets Quartz Lake, Alaska

Index of Poems Acknowledgments About the Author About the Editor Colophon

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