Description
Brilliantly honed language, sharp rhythms and striking syntax empower Lucille Clifton's personal and artistic odyssey. Hers is poetry of birth, death, children, community, history, sexuality and spirituality, and she addresses these themes with passion, humor, anger and spiritual awe.
Author: Lucille Clifton
Publisher: BOA Editions
Published: 09/01/2000
Pages: 89
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.03w x 0.26d
ISBN13: 9780918526816
ISBN10: 0918526817
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | African American & Black
- Literary Criticism | American | African American & Black
- Poetry | Women Authors
About the Author
Lucille Clifton won the 2007 Ruth Lilly Poetry Award. Her book, Blessing the Boats (BOA Editions), won the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry. Two of Clifton's BOA poetry collections were chosen as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. Clifton's awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and an Emmy Award.