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Letter to Mildred Peele Attached to Iron Heaven and Other Poems, 1987 November 16

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Item 2

Scope and Contents

Manuscript of forty-three poems by Burton ("Iron Heaven"; "To My Sister"; A Dream”; “Summer Garden”; “Silence”; “Song for South Africa”; “The Black Woman”; “V. D. Clinic”; “Newly Born”; “Sounds”; “Harlem on the Poor Side of Town”; “Pheasant”; “Poem”; “Drum”; “You’re”; “The Flying Change”; “Your Child”; “A Walk”; “Democracy”; “A Ghost May Come”; “There are Poems”; “To a Friend’s Child”; “A Solitary Woman”; “As Benefits A Woman”; “End of the World”; “Madness”; “Our Hands in the Garden”; “I am going to Sleep (suicide poem)”; “The Ghetto Girls at Eastern State”; “Platoon”; “Self-Portrait”; “The Painter in the Lion Cage”; “Song of the Old Woman”; “Talking Fish”; “So Long”; “Abortion”; “The Three Fates”; “Slump”; “Mothers, Daughter”; “Nothing”; “dust”; “July 29, 1987”; “Troubled Woman”)

Dates

  • 1987 November 16

Extent

From the Collection: 0.40 Linear Feet

Conditions Governing Access

Open to researchers without restrictions.

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the ODU University Archives Repository

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