Ai: November 14, 1974

The Poetry Center presents Ai, reading poetry from her book Cruelty, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1973, and from as yet uncollected work.

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APA
Location
San Francisco State College
Date
11/14/1974
Total Run Time
00:35:50
Contributor
Kathleen Fraser
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Kathleen Fraser introduces Ai, who reads and comments on the following poems from Cruelty: "Twenty-Year Marriage," "Abortion," "The Tenant Farmer," "I Have Got to Stop Loving You," "Young Farm Woman Alone," "The Hitchhiker," "Cuba, 1962," "Child Beater," "Women," "Everything: Eloy, Arizona, 1956," "Before You Leave," and "New Crops for a Free Man." She then reads the following newer, unpublished poems: "The Mortician's Twelve-Year-Old Son," "Jericho," "Christ Bracero," "Bless Me, Father," and "He Kept on Burning."

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