| #2085050 in Books | 2008-11-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.30 x6.00l,.25 | File type: PDF | 72 pages||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| word music|By Elizabeth Evans|Lucille Clifton's poetry is, indeed, word music, most likely blues or jazz or gospel or any music that speaks to one's uncomplicated soul. The magic of her poetry is in its accessibility to the reader whether one is a lover of poetry or an infrequent visitor to the world of poetry. There is joy as well as desperate reality in the rhythmic cad|From Publishers Weekly|National Book Award–winner Clifton has long enjoyed national acclaim for her careful, colloquial, compact renditions of African-American voices, in memoirs, books for children and more than a dozen books of poems. This relatively sho
In 2007, Lucille Clifton became the first African American woman to win the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, one of the most prestigious American poetry awards and one of the largest literary honors for work in the English language. Clifton has also won the National Book Award in poetry for Blessing the Boats (BOA Editions, 2000), and is the only author ever to have two collections, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir (BOA Editions, 1987) and Next: New Poems ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Voices (American Poets Continuum) | Lucille Clifton. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
