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WAY IT WAS by LUCILLE CLIFTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: MORNINGS %I GOT UP EARLY
Last Line: NOT TOUCHING %TRYING TO BE WHITE
Subject(s): AFRICAN AMERICANS - WOMEN;

Poem Sources:

NO MORE MASKS! AN ANTHOLOGY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN POETS. NEWLY REVISED AND EXPANDED.
  HOWE, FLORENCE (ED.)
  (1993)
 
GOOD WOMAN; POEMS AND A MEMOIR 1969-1980.
  CLIFTON, LUCILLE
  (1987)
 



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