CLIFTON, LUCILLE,
1936-2010.
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Subseries 2.2a
Collected works, 1969-2008
Boxes 16-20; OP 2
Arrangement Note
When possible, poetry is arranged in chronological order by date of publication; individual poems within the work are arranged in alphabetical order. The final "proposed compilations" are in alphabetical order.
Good Times (1969) | ||
Box | Folder | Content |
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16 | 1 | Good Times, partial typescript draft |
16 | 2 | Good Times, partial typescript draft [variant title: New Thing] |
16 | 3 | Good Times, typescript draft [variant title: New Thing] |
16 | 4 | Good Times, typescript draft with title page and dedication |
16 | 5 | Good Times, page proofs |
OP2 | 1 | Good Times, galley proof |
16 | 6 | Good Times, compilation "From 'Good Times'" typescript |
Good News about the Earth (1972) | ||
16 | 7 | "The Lost Baby Poem," typescript draft July, 1969 |
16 | 8 | "Poem for my Sisters," typescript draft June, 1969 |
16 | 9 | Good News about the Earth, page proofs July 11, 1971 |
16 | 10 | Good News about the Earth, page proofs |
16 | 11 | Good News about the Earth, galley proofs [1] |
16 | 12 | Good News about the Earth, galley proofs [2] |
16 | 13 | Good News about the Earth, book cover |
an ordinary woman (1974) | ||
16 | 14 | "Cutting Greens," galley proof |
16 | 15 | "God's Mood," typescript October 8, 1973 |
16 | 16 | "i am not done yet," typescript draft [variant title: "I Am a Black Woman"] |
16 | 17 | "The Lesson of the Falling Leaves," typescripts |
16 | 18 | "some dreams hang in the air," typescript October 8, 1973 |
16 | 19 | "the thirty-eighth year," typescripts |
16 | 20 | "To Ms. Ann," typescripts |
16 | 21 | an ordinary woman, typescript [includes editorial correspondence] |
16 | 22 | an ordinary woman, typescript, February 28, 1974 [includes editorial correspondence] |
16 | 23 | an ordinary woman, typescript with dedication |
16 | 24 | an ordinary woman, [includes "Black People"] [with editorial correspondence] |
16 | 25 | an ordinary woman, book cover |
two-headed woman (1980) | ||
17 | 1 | "sonora desert poem," typescript [variant titles: "The People who Live in the Desert See it all and Say Nothing," "Welcome to the Desert (You are not a Stranger Here)" |
17 | 2 | two-headed woman, typescript |
17 | 3 | two-headed woman, typescript [variant title: "The Light that came to Lucille Clifton"] |
17 | 4 | two-headed woman, typescript with corrections |
17 | 5 | two-headed woman, photocopied typescript |
17 | 6 | two-headed woman, galley proofs |
good woman: poems and a memoir 1969-1980 (1987) | ||
17 | 7 | good woman poems and a memoir 1969-1980, table of contents |
17 | 8 | good woman poems and a memoir 1969-1980, proof copy |
17 | 9 | good woman poems and a memoir 1969-1980, galley proofs |
17 | 10 | good woman poems and a memoir 1969-1980, book cover and author bio page proofs |
17 | 11 | good woman poems and a memoir 1969-1980, book cover |
Next: New Poems (1987) | ||
17 | 12 | "After Reading a Poem by Stephen Spendor," typescript drafts [not included in final publication] 1983 |
17 | 13 | "california lessons" [includes "geography," "history," "botany," "semantics," and "metaphysics"] |
17 | 14 | "chemotherapy," typescript drafts |
17 | 15 | "cruelty: don't talk to me about cruelty," typescript draft |
17 | 16 | "the death of joanne c.," typescript drafts with corrections |
17 | 17 | "enter my mother," typescript drafts with corrections |
17 | 18 | "Female," typescript |
17 | 19 | "feast of women," typescript drafts [not included in final publication] |
17 | 20 | "here is another bone to pick with you," typescript draft |
17 | 21 | "if our grandchild be a girl," typescript drafts |
17 | 22 | "in white america," typescript |
17 | 23 | "incantation," typescript drafts with corrections [variant title: "leukemia as voodoo] |
17 | 24 | "leukemia as dream/ritual," typescript drafts with corrections |
17 | 25 | "leukemia as white rabbit," typescript drafts with corrections |
17 | 26 | "lives: to lu in answer to her question," typescript drafts |
17 | 27 | "the message of jo," typescript drafts with corrections |
18 | 1 | "the message of thelma sayles," typescript drafts |
18 | 2 | "my dream about the cows," typescript drafts |
18 | 3 | "my dream about time," typescript drafts |
18 | 4 | "my dream about the poet," typescript draft |
18 | 5 | "people who do not remember death," typescript draft [not included in final publication] |
18 | 6 | "she won't ever forgive me," typescript drafts |
18 | 7 | "to my dark daughters," typescript draft [not included in final publication] |
18 | 8 | "the woman in the camp," manuscript and typescript drafts |
18 | 9 | Next: New Poems, partial typescript draft [variant title: "Feast of Women"] |
18 | 10 | Next: New Poems, typescript [variant title: "Feast of Women"] [1] |
18 | 11 | Next: New Poems, typescript [variant title: "Feast of Women"] [2] |
18 | 12 | Next: New Poems, partial typescript draft [variant section heading: "mirrors and dreams"] 1981-1982 |
18 | 13 | Next: New Poems, partial typescript draft [1] |
18 | 14 | Next: New Poems, partial typescript draft [2] |
18 | 15 | Next: New Poems, photocopied typescript |
18 | 16 | Next: New Poems, proof copy |
18 | 17 | Next: New Poems, galley proofs with corrections |
18 | 18 | Next: New Poems, book cover |
ten oxherding pictures (1988) | ||
18 | 19 | "a meditation on Ten Oxherding Pictures," typescript, August 6, 2008 [reprinted for Voices (2008)] |
18 | 20 | "2nd picture: Seeing the Traces," typescript, August 6, 2008 [reprinted for Voices (2008)] |
18 | 21 | "5th picture: Herding the Ox," typescript, August 6, 2008 [reprinted for Voices (2008)] |
18 | 22 | "7th picture: The Ox Forgotten Leaving the Man Alone," typescript, August 6, 2008 [reprinted for Voices (2008)] |
18 | 23 | "10th picture: Entering the City with Bliss-Bestowing Hands," typescript, August 6, 2008 [reprinted for Voices (2008)] |
18 | 24 | ten-oxherding pictures, typescript, May 15-16, 1987 [originally filed in Series 5: Subject and organization files with "California State University Arts Faculty Institute"] |
18 | 25 | ten-oxherding pictures, galley proofs |
18 | 26 | ten-oxherding pictures, notes |
Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 (1991) | ||
18 | 27 | "at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina," manuscript, 1989 |
18 | 28 | "eyes," typescript, May 1988 [originally filed in Series 5: Subject and organization files with "California State University Arts Faculty Institute"] |
18 | 29 | "note to my self," typescript draft [variant title: "note to myself: t-shirt] [includes editorial correspondence] |
18 | 30 | "poem in praise of menstruation," manuscript and typescripts [includes editorial correspondence] |
18 | 31 | "poem to my uterus," typescript |
18 | 32 | "when I stand around among the poets," typescript [originally filed in Series 5: Subject and organization files with "California State University Arts Faculty Institute"] |
18 | 33 | "wishes for sons," typescript, 1987 [originally filed in Series 5: Subject and organization files with "California State University Arts Faculty Institute"] |
18 | 34 | Quilting Poems: 1987-1990, partial typescript draft |
18 | 35 | Quilting Poems: 1987-1990, typescript with additional poems |
19 | 1 | Quilting Poems: 1987-1990, typescript with corrections |
19 | 2 | Quilting Poems: 1987-1990, typescript |
19 | 3 | Quilting: Poems: 1987-1990, page proofs with corrections |
The Book of Light (1993) | ||
19 | 4 | "far memory: a poem in seven parts," typescript draft with corrections [includes "convent," "someone inside me remembers," "again," "trying to understand this life," "sinnerman," "karma," and "gloria mundi," |
19 | 5 | "seeker of visions," typescript drafts |
19 | 6 | "wont you celebrate with me," typescript |
19 | 7 | The Book of Light, partial typescript draft with corrections |
19 | 8 | The Book of Light, typescript draft with corrections |
19 | 9 | The Book of Light, typescript |
The Terrible Stories (1996) | ||
19 | 10 | "blake," typescript |
19 | 11 | "the coming of fox," typescript [variant title: "the coming of the fox"] |
19 | 12 | "dear fox," typescript |
19 | 13 | "down the tram," typescript, July 25, 1991 |
19 | 14 | "a dream of foxes," manuscript and typescripts |
19 | 15 | "fox," typescript |
19 | 16 | "in the meantime," typescript |
19 | 17 | "in the same week," typescript drafts |
19 | 18 | "leaving fox," typescripts |
19 | 19 | "lorena," typescript drafts |
19 | 20 | "my sanctified grandmother," typescript, 1994 [variant title: "our sanctified grandmother] |
19 | 21 | "oh absolam my son my son," manuscript |
19 | 22 | "one year later," typescript |
19 | 23 | "rust," typescript, 1994 |
19 | 24 | "slaveships," typescript [variant title: "slaveship"] |
19 | 25 | "what did she know, when did she know it," typescript |
19 | 26 | The Terrible Stories, partial typescript draft |
19 | 27 | The Terrible Stories, typescript draft |
19 | 28 | The Terrible Stories, partial page proofs with corrections |
19 | 29 | The Terrible Stories, book cover page proofs |
19 | 30 | The Terrible Stories, book cover |
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 (2000) | ||
19 | 31 | "alabama 9/15/63," typescript draft [variant title: "alabama 1963"] |
19 | 32 | "dialysis," typescript |
19 | 33 | "donor," typescript [variant title: "transplant (1)"] |
19 | 34 | "grief," typescript |
19 | 35 | "jasper texas," typescripts |
19 | 36 | "libation," typescript |
19 | 37 | "report from the angel of eden," typescript drafts [variant titles: "report from eden," and "report from the angel"] |
19 | 38 | "what i think when i ride the train," typescript |
- | - | "why some people be made at me sometimes," typescript [See Voices, partial typescript] |
19 | 39 | Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000, proof copy |
Mercy (2004) | ||
19 | 40 | "blood," typescript [variant title: "girl"] |
19 | 41 | "dying," typescript |
19 | 42 | "the message from the ones" typescript draft [includes "your mother sends you this," "come to here," "you," "we are ones," "in the saying of," "we are here," "why should we wander boneyards," "you who feel yourself," "some of you have been blessed," "god," "the angels have no wings, "we," "in the geometry," "you are not," "you come to teach," "you wish to speak of," "the universe requires the worlds," "you have placed yourselves," "whether in spirit," "the air," "what has been made," "no one is worthy," "the patience," "there is a star"] [includes editorial correspondence] |
19 | 43 | "mulberry fields forever," typescript, undated [published under the title, "mulberry fields"] |
19 | 44 | "oh antic god," typescript draft |
19 | 45 | "out of body," typescripts |
19 | 46 | "September's Song: A Poem in Seven Days," typescript drafts, September 2001 |
19 | 47 | "walking the blind dog," typescript |
19 | 48 | "wind on the st. marys river," "untitled," typescript, March 17, 2002 |
19 | 49 | Mercy, typescript draft, undated [with attached letter to Maude Meehan] |
20 | 1 | Mercy, typescript draft with corrections |
20 | 2 | Mercy, typescript draft with corrections |
20 | 3 | Mercy, page proofs with corrections |
20 | 4 | Mercy, page proofs |
Voices (2008) | ||
20 | 5 | "6/27/06," typescript drafts [variant title "June 27, 1981"] |
20 | 6 | "afterblues," manuscript and typescript drafts [one typescript originally filed with Series 4: Teaching and Workshop files, in folder "Squaw Valley Poetry Workshop, 2008] |
20 | 7 | "albino," typescript drafts, undated and January-February 2006 |
20 | 8 | "aunt jemima," typescript drafts, undated and February 2006-August 2008 [one draft is attached to correspondence that also includes "faith" and uncollected poem, "ritual 1"] |
20 | 9 | "cream of wheat," typescript drafts, undated and August 4, 2008 |
20 | 10 | "dad," typescript drafts, undated and May-August, 2008 |
20 | 11 | "the dead do dream," typescripts, undated and June 19, 2006 |
20 | 12 | "dog's god," typescript drafts, undated and January 9, 2008 |
20 | 13 | "from the dead raccoon," typescript, undated [published as "raccoon prayer"] |
20 | 14 | "faith," manuscript and typescripts, undated and February-June, 2006 [also see "aunt jemima" typescript] |
20 | 15 | "for maude," typescript drafts, August 20, 2007 and August 4, 2008 |
20 | 16 | "highway 89 toward Tahoe," typescript drafts, July 2005-August 2008 [variant title: "highway 89"] [originally filed with Series 4: Teaching and Workshop files, in folder "Squaw Valley Poetry Workshop"] |
20 | 17 | "in amira's room," typescript drafts, undated and February-June, 2006 |
20 | 18 | "lu 1942," typescript drafts, undated and February-June, 2006 [variant title: "lou 1942"] |
20 | 19 | "'marley was dead to begin with'," typescript drafts, undated and July 1987 [one typescript originally filed in Series 5: Subject and organization files with "California State University Arts Faculty Institute"] [one typescript originally filed with Series 4: Teaching and Workshop files, in folder "Squaw Valley Poetry Workshop, 2008] |
20 | 20 | "mataoka," typescript [originally filed with Series 4: Teaching and Workshop files, in folder "Squaw Valley Poetry Workshop, 2008] |
20 | 21 | "mirror," typescript draft [variant title: "mirror the last"] |
20 | 22 | "my grandfather's good lullaby," typescript |
20 | 23 | "my father hasn't come back," typescript draft, undated and May 7, 2008 [variant title: "my father hasn't returned"] [one typescript originally filed with Series 4: Teaching and Workshop files, in folder "Squaw Valley Poetry Workshop, 2008] |
20 | 24 | "raccoon prayer," typescript draft |
20 | 25 | "raccoon prayer," typescript, undated |
20 | 26 | "sorrows," typescript draft |
20 | 27 | "this is what I know," typescript draft |
20 | 28 | "witko," typescript drafts, undated and April 17, 2008 [variant title: "Tushinka Witco"] [one typescript originally filed with Series 4: Teaching and Workshop files, in folder "Squaw Valley Poetry Workshop, 2008] |
20 | 29 | "'you have been my tried and trusted friend'," typescript drafts [originally filed with Series 4: Teaching and Workshop files, in folder "Squaw Valley Poetry Workshop, 2008] |
20 | 30 | Voices, partial typescript draft [includes "faith," "aunt jemima," "cream of wheat," "horse prayer," "raccoon prayer," "sorrows," and poems not present in the final version: "won't you celebrate with me," "why some people be made at me sometimes] |
20 | 31 | Voices, partial typescript draft [with editorial correspondence, August 9, 2008] |
20 | 32 | Voices, typescript [with editorial correspondence, October 12, 2006] |
20 | 33 | Voices, page proofs with corrections |
20 | 34 | Voices, page proofs |
Proposed compilations | ||
20 | 35 | "Body Poems," photocopied proposed compilation, June 6, 1997 |
20 | 36 | Book of Days, proposed compilation, typescript, undated |
20 | 37 | "Spirit Poems," photocopied proposed compilation, June 6, 1997 |
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