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RUNNING ACROSS TO THE LOT by LUCILLE CLIFTON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: OUR FATHERS WERE DEAD AND %OUR BROTHERS WERE DYING
Subject(s): AFRICAN AMERICANS - HISTORY; DESPAIR; ETHNIC IDENTITY; SLAVERY;

Poem Sources:

GOOD WOMAN; POEMS AND A MEMOIR 1969-1980.
  CLIFTON, LUCILLE
  (1987)
 



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