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AUNT AGNES HATCHER TELLS by LUCILLE CLIFTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: AFTER THE WAR WHEN RATIONING WAS OVER
Last Line: SLIDE OUT BABIES LIKE PAYDAY FROM THAT %BILLION DOLLAR BEHIND
Subject(s): AFRICAN AMERICANS - HISTORY; DEATH; FAMILY LIFE; HUNGER; SLAVERY; WAR;

Poem Sources:

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



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