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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 her own losses, centering not on the ideas of “letting go” or “making peace, ” but of sustained communication with the departed. Clifton’s practice...

Winner of the 2000 National Book Award for Blessing the Boats: New and Selected 1988-2000Lifetime achievements: Winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2017) and the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award (2001)Two-time Pulitzer Prize for Poetry finalist (first author who had two books nominated the same year)Introduction by Ross GayAfterword by daughter, Sidney CliftonWith themes ranging from politics to war, comic books to the Bible, this ...

An award-winning collection from one of America's most beloved twentieth-century poets'The love readers feel for Lucille Clifton - both the woman and her poetry - is constant and deeply felt' Toni MorrisonLucille Clifton was one of the most distinguished American poets of the twentieth century. This award-winning collection of her poems showcases the simplicity and song-like grace with which she addressed the whole of human experience: birth, ...

Selected poems from celebrated poet Lucille Clifton's 50-year career selected by Whiting Award-winning poet Aracelis Girmay.

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. A father's funeral. Memory. In Generations, Louise Clifton's formidable poetic gift emerges in prose, giving us a memoir of stark and profound beauty. Her story focuses on the lives of the Sayles family: Caroline, "born among the Dahomey people in 1822, " who w...

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Selected poems from celebrated poet Lucille Clifton's 50-year career selected by Whiting Award-winning poet Aracelis Girmay.

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Combines all 11 of Clifton's published collections with more than 50 previously unpublished poems. The unpublished poems feature early poems from 1965D1969, a collection-in-progress "The Book of Days, " and a poignant selection of final poems.

Twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, Clifton extends her already formidable powers of revelation with these new poems. Her song springs almost spontaneously from her imagination to stitch surreality with concrete imagery drawn from temporal reality, revealing an essential mystery and wisdom from within.

The long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets working today.

American Poets Continuum series. In her 12th book of poetry, a National Book Award winner speaks to the tenuous relationship between mothers and daughters, the debilitating power of cancer, and much more.

A new collection of empathetic and illuminating poems by one of America's most-beloved poets.

The long-awaited tenth collection of poetry from the Shelley Memorial Prize-winning poet Lucille Clifton.

Poetry. African American Studies. "Unadorned, Clifton's gemlike forms are resplendent, refracting the author's themes of family, the grace that can mean survival, the environment, and perhaps most of all, individual responsibility for the future.... Her words reveal not a victim, but a visionary. In the witness tradition of Brooks and Baldwin, Whitman and Wheatley, Clifton eagerly takes up arms in the struggle to salvage what grace in life rem...

LAST COPIES. Poetry. Memoir. African American Studies. A landmark collection by one of America's major black poets, GOOD WOMAN includes all of Lucille Clifton's previously published books of extraordinarily vibrant poetry, as well as her haunting prose memoir GENERATIONS.

A new collection by the National Book Award winner and one of America's most beloved poets.

A simple, poetic telling of Everett Anderson's feelings as he copes with and accepts the fact of his father's death".--Childhood Education. Coretta Scott King Award, NCTE Teacher's Choice, Reading Rainbow Feature. Full color.

In the middle of the city, two young friends set out to find Spring. Their search ends in a most unlikely but utterly convincing discovery.

There is nothing Tee enjoys more than sitting out on the porch with her great-greatmother, listening to the fascinating stories about the lucky stone.Shiny and black as night, it brought good fortune to each of its owners for over one hundred years. First it helped Mandy, a runaway slave, win her freedom. Then it saved Vashti from death by lightning at a prayer meeting. And it even saved Tee's great-grandmother from the ferocious dancing dog a...