The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
[United States] : BOA Editions Ltd., 2015.
Format: Ebook
Description: 1 online resource.
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 combines all eleven of Lucille Clifton's published collections with more than fifty previously unpublished poems. The unpublished poems feature early poems from 1965-1969, a collection-in-progress titled the book of days (2008), and a poignant selection of final poems. An insightful foreword by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison and comprehensive afterword by noted poet Kevin Young frames Clifton's lifetime body of work, providing the definitive statement about this major America poet's career. On February 13, 2010, the poetry world lost one of its most distinguished members with the passing of Lucille Clifton. In the last year of her life, she was named the first African American woman to receive the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize honoring a US poet whose "lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition," and was posthumously awarded the Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America. "mother-tongue: to man-kind" (from the unpublished the book of days): all that I am asking is that you see me as something more than a common occurrence, more than a woman in her ordinary skin.
Series: American poets continuum series ; no. 134.
Other Authors:
Young, Kevin, 1970- editor.
Glaser, Michael S., 1943- editor.
Morrison, Toni, author of introduction, etc.
Young, Kevin, 1970- author of afterword, colophon, etc.
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Young, Kevin, 1970- editor.
Glaser, Michael S., 1943- editor.
Morrison, Toni, author of introduction, etc.
Young, Kevin, 1970- author of afterword, colophon, etc.
hoopla digital.
Subjects:
Clifton, Lucille, 1936-2010.
American poetry -- 20th century.
African American poets -- 20th century.
Electronic books.
Clifton, Lucille, 1936-2010.
American poetry -- 20th century.
African American poets -- 20th century.
Electronic books.
ISBN:
9781942683001
Electronic resource.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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