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Lucille Clifton
Blessing the Boats draws together poems from across Lucille Clifton’s career, showcasing the stunning simplicity and grace with which she addressed the whole of human experience: birth, death, children, family…
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Finalist, 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Lucille Clifton is one of the four or five most authentic and profound living American poets. –Denise Levertov
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A lucky stone provides good fortune for its various owners.
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The long-awaited tenth collection of poetry from the Shelley Memorial Prize-winning poet Lucille Clifton.
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…
A new collection by the National Book Award winner and one of America’s most beloved poets.
Nineteen new poems as well as selections from the author’s earlier collections explore human suffering, the tragedy of violence, and theological mysteries.
Mary Jane Lupton
This timely and important biography will give readers a glimpse into the life and work of this important and revered African American poet, writer, and educator, exploring themes that run…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Lucille Clifton’s Climbing, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
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Hilary Holladay
Inthis text, Hilary Holladay offers the a full-length study of Lucille Clifton’s poetry, drawing on a broad knowledge of the American poetic tradition and African American poetry in particula
A Study Guide for Lucille Clifton’s Miss Rosie, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
A Study Guide for Lucille Clifton’s In the Inner City, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
Landmark volume containing all of Lucille Clifton’s published work and 55 previously unpublished poems. Foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison.
A Study Guide for Lucille Clifton’s Homage to My Hips, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for Lucille Clifton’s The Luckiest Time of All, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…
Selected poems from celebrated poet Lucille Clifton’s 50-year career selected by Whiting Award-winning poet Aracelis Girmay.
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Two skeptical city boys set out to find spring which they’ve heard is just around the corner.
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."
"An anniversary edition of Lucille Clifton's Book of Light, a collection of poems"--
Lucille Clifton,Tracy K. Smith
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…
A groundbreaking anthology of well-known female poets that broadens traditional notions of erotic poetry.
Beginning with the Beats and the New York School and continuing with both marquee-name poets and newcomers, Seriously Funny ranges from poems that are capsized by their own tomfoolery to…
With reproductive freedom under unprecedented attack, Choice Words, edited by poet Annie Finch, takes back the cultural conversation on abortion.
Can serious poetry be funny? This title features poems that address timeless concerns and also include comic elements. It features poems that are capsized by their own tomfoolery as well…
