Generations
A Memoir
New York : New York Review Books, [2021]
Format: Book
Description: 87 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
"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 walked north from New Orleans to Virginia in 1830 when she was eight years old; Lucy, the first black woman to be hanged in Virginia; and Gene, born with a withered arm, the son of a carpetbagger and the author's grandmother. Lucille Clifton tells us about the life of an African-American family through slavery and hard times and beyond, of the death of her father and grandmother, but also of all the life and love and triumph that came before and remains even now. Generations is a powerful work of determination and affirmation. "I look at my husband," Clifton writes, "and my children and I feel the Dahomey women gathering in my bones.""-- Provided by publisher.
Series: New York Review Books classics.
Subjects:
Clifton, Lucille, 1936-2010.
African American poets -- Biography.
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Clifton, Lucille, 1936-2010.
African American poets -- Biography.
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781681375878
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Clifton, Lucille | Main (Downtown) | Display - First Level, Biography | In |