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Lucille Clifton Reading in the 2008 Dodge Poetry Festival Saturday Night Sampler - 9/27/08

By Lucille Clifton — 2010

04:15 min

The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

These translated poems were written by 2 ladies of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and eleventh centuries A.D. The poems speak intimately of their authors' sexual longing, fulfillment and disillusionment.

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Sexuality