Results for "Clifton, Lucille"

Selected poems from celebrated poet Lucille Clifton's 50-year career selected by Whiting Award-winning poet Aracelis Girmay.... Read More about How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton

A moving family biography in which the poet traces her family history back through Jim Crow, the slave trade, and all the way to the women of the Dahomey people in West Africa. Buffalo, New York. A father’s funeral. Memory. In Generations, Lucille Clifton’s formidable poetic gift emerges in pro... Read More about Generations: A Memoir

Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry "The love readers feel for Lucille Clifton--both the woman and her poetry--is constant and deeply felt. The lines that surface most frequently in praise of her work and her person are moving declarations of racial pride, courage, steadfastn... Read More about The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010

Plainspoken, empowering, spare, wise beyond measure, Clifton's words are a balm and a force of good for all: "The surest failure / is the unattempted walk." Tracy K. Smith took a poetry workshop with Lucille Clifton following the death of her mother. The experience was an awakening. Clifton spoke of... Read More about Divining Poets: Clifton: A Quotable Deck from Turtle Point Press (Divining Poets: A Quotable Deck from Turtle Point Press)

The long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets working today.... Read More about Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000