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(0)Lucille Clifton
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American poets continuum volume 38
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Lucille Clifton is one of the most distinguished American poets writing today. In The Terrible Stories, her tenth collection of verse, Clifton covers new terrain - cancer and mastectomy, the life of King David, encounters with a vixen fox who is both shaman and muse. Brilliantly honed language, stunning images and sharp rhythms addresses the whole of human experience: birth, death, children, family, sexuality and spirituality, and community in antebellum...
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American poets continuum volume 14
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A retrospective collection of all this black poet's work plus a memoir in prose.
A landmark collection by one of America's major black pets, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 includes all of Lucille clifton's four previously published books of extraordinarily vibrat poetry--Good Times, Good News about the Earth, An Ordinary Woman and Two-Headed Woman--as well as her haunting prose memoir, Generations.
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American poets continuum volume 60
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The long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets working today.
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American poets continuum volume 21
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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.
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How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America's most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered poems that have never been published.
These poems celebrating black womanhood and resilience shimmer with intellect, insight, humor, and joy, all in Clifton's characteristic style-a voice that the late Toni Morrison described as "seductive with the simplicity of an atom, which...
7) Generaciones
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«No quería que te murieses, papi. Siempre decías que te nos aparecerías si te morías».
Tras la muerte de su padre, la poeta Lucille Clifton comienza a desempolvar conversaciones, álbumes de fotos, recuerdos propios y ajenos para reconstruir la historia de su familia, los Sayles, descendientes de feroces amazonas guerreras, las mujeres dahomeyanas. Sus páginas invocan, entre otros, a mamá Ca'line, que con ocho años caminó desde Nueva...
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American poets continuum volume no. 134
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c2012
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The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 combines all eleven of Lucille clifton's published collections with more than sixty previously unpublished poems. The unpublished works feature early poems from 1965-1969, a collection-in-progress titled Book of Days (2008), and a poignant selection of final poems.
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[1993]
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Twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, Clifton extends her already formidable powers of revelation with these new poems. Her song springs almost spontaneously from her imagination to stitch surreality with concrete imagery drawn from temporal reality, revealing an essential mystery and wisdom from within.