Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 (American Poets Continuum Series, Vol. 21)
by Lucille Clifton
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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.Tags
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I had to buy a new copy because I don't know what happened to mine--did I loan it out? If I did, I hope that person loves it as much as I do. I feel like I've lost the ability to talk about poetry, but I will try. The topics she chooses can be so focused in and then so focused big and outward. Her language and form are minimalist, but still expansive--precise. There is something so bared about her voice. These "tiny" poems are so vulnerable and thus so courageous. I will always love poetry about periods, about the physical experience of being in a certain body. And then songs to the world and to the past. The quilt concept is perfect.
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Lucille Clifton was born in Depew, New York on June 27, 1936. She was the first person in her family to graduate from high school. She attended Howard University, where she majored in drama, for two years before deciding that she would rather write poetry. Her first poetry collection Good Times was published in 1969. During her lifetime, she wrote show more 11 books of poetry and 20 children's books. She won numerous awards including the Coretta Scott King Award for Everett Anderson's Good-bye in 1984, the National Book Award for Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000 in 2001, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize award in 2007. She was the Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1979 to 1985. She died after a long battle with cancer and other illnesses on February 13, 2010 at the age of 73. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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