Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry
""The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010" may be the
most important book of poetry to appear in years."--"Publishers
Weekly"
"All poetry readers will want to own this book; almost
everything is in it."--"Publishers Weekly"
"If you only read one poetry book in 2012, "The Collected Poems
of Lucille Clifton" ought to be it."--NPR
"The 'Collected Clifton' is a gift, not just for her fans...but
for all of us."--"The Washington Post"
"The love readers feel for Lucille Clifton--both the woman and
her poetry--is constant and deeply felt. The lines that surface
most frequently in praise of her work and her person are moving
declarations of racial pride, courage, steadfastness."--Toni
Morrison, from the Foreword
"The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010" combines all
eleven of Lucille Clifton's published collections with more than
fifty previously unpublished poems. The unpublished poems feature
early poems from 1965-1969, a collection-in-progress titled "the
book of days" (2008), and a poignant selection of final poems. An
insightful foreword by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison and
comprehensive afterword by noted poet Kevin Young frames Clifton's
lifetime body of work, providing the definitive statement about
this major America poet's career.
On February 13, 2010, the poetry world lost one of its most
distinguished members with the passing of Lucille Clifton. In the
last year of her life, she was named the first African American
woman to receive the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize honoring a US
poet whose "lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary
recognition," and was posthumously awarded the Robert Frost Medal
for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America.
"mother-tongue: to man-kind" (from the unpublished "the book of
days"):
"all that I am asking is
that you see me as something
more than a common occurrence,
more than a woman in her ordinary skin."
General
Imprint: |
B O a Editions, Limited
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
American Poets Continuum |
Release date: |
September 2012 |
First published: |
August 2012 |
Authors: |
Lucille Clifton
|
Foreword by: |
Toni Morrison
|
Editors: |
Kevin Young
• Michael S. Glaser
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 55mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
|
Pages: |
769 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-934414-90-3 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-934414-90-5 |
Barcode: |
9781934414903 |
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