The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 write by Lucille Clifton. This book was released on 2012. The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Landmark volume containing all of Lucille Clifton's published work and 55 previously unpublished poems. Foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison.
The Book of Light
The Book of Light - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of Light write by Lucille Clifton. This book was released on 2023-08-29. The Book of Light available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With a powerful introduction by Ross Gay and a moving afterword by Sidney Clifton, this special anniversary edition of The Book of Light offers new meditations and insights on one of the most beloved voices of the 20th century. Though The Book of Light opens with thirty-nine names for light, we soon learn the most meaningful name is Lucille—daughter, mother, proud Black woman. Known for her ability to convey multitudes in few words, Clifton writes into the shadows—her father’s violations, a Black neighborhood bombed, death, loss—all while illuminating the full spectrum of human emotion: grief and celebration, anger and joy, empowerment and so much grace. A meeting place of myth and the Divine, The Book of Light exists “between starshine and clay” as Clifton’s personas allow us to bear the world’s weight with Atlas and witness conversations between Lucifer and God. While names and dates mark this text as a social commentary responding to her time, it is haunting how easily this collection serves as a political palimpsest of today. We leave these poems inspired—Clifton shows us Superman is not our hero. Our hero is the Black female narrator who decides to live. And what a life she creates! “Won’t you celebrate with me?”
Generations
Generations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Generations write by Lucille Clifton. This book was released on 2021-11-16. Generations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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, New York. A father’s funeral. Memory. In Generations, Lucille 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. Clifton tells us about the life of an African American family through slavery and hard times and beyond, the death of her father and grandmother, but also 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.”
How to Carry Water
How to Carry Water - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Carry Water write by Lucille Clifton. This book was released on 2020. How to Carry Water available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A series of poems drawn from various collections published throughout the 40-year career of American poet Lucille Clifton"--
Good Woman
Good Woman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Good Woman write by Lucille Clifton. This book was released on 2014-04-17. Good Woman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry A landmark collection by National Book Award-winning poet Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 includes the four poetry collections that launched Clifton’s career—Good Times, Good News About the Earth, An Ordinary Woman, and Two-Headed Woman—as well as her haunting prose memoir, Generations. In honor of the 30th anniversary of Lucille Clifton's Pulitzer Prize-nominated poetry collection and memoir, Good Woman is now available for the first time as a deluxe eBook edition. Enhanced with previously unpublished photographs from the Lucille Clifton Estate and a special foreword by Aracelis Girmay, this eBook is a must-have for longtime Clifton fans and newcomers alike.
