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HOMAGE TO MY HIPS by LUCILLE CLIFTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THESE HIPS ARE BIG HIPS
Last Line: TO PUT A SPELL ON A MAN AND %SPIN HIM LIKE A TOP!
Subject(s): HIPS; WOMEN;

Poem Sources:

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY. 4TH ED.
  POULIN, A., JR. (ED.)
  (1985)
 
VITAL SIGNS; CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY FROM THE UNIVERSITY PRESSES.
  WALLACE, RONALD (ED.)
  (1989)
 
THE MCGRAW-HILL BOOK OF POETRY.
  DIYANNI, ROBERT & ROMPF, KRAFT (EDS.)
  (1993)
 
POETRY; A HARPERCOLLINS POCKET ANTHOLOGY.
  GWYNN, R.S. (ED.)
  (1993)
 
A BOOK OF WOMEN POETS FROM ANTIQIUTY TO NOW. REVISED ED.
  BARNSTONE, ALIKI, & BARNSTONE, WILLIS
  (1992)
 
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE.
  GATES, HENRY LOUIS, JR. & MCKAY, NELLIE Y. (EDS.)
  (1997)
 
STEP LIGHTLY; POEMS FOR THE JOURNEY.
  WILLARD, NANCY (COMP.)
 
GOOD WOMAN; POEMS AND A MEMOIR 1969-1980.
  CLIFTON, LUCILLE
  (1987)
 



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