Name: The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010: 134 (American Poets Continuum)
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Author: Clifton, Lucille ; Morrison, Toni ; Young, Kevin
ISBN: 9781934414903

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The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010: 134 (American Poets Continuum)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Preface by

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Publisher

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

720

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.5 x 16.5 x 5.5 cm

Weight

1.23 kg.

ISBN

1934414905

ISBN13

9781934414903

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010: 134 (American Poets Continuum) "

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 WeeklyAll poetry readers will want to own this book; almost everything is in it.--Publishers WeeklyIf you only read one poetry book in 2012, The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton ought to be it.--NPRThe 'Collected Clifton' is a gift, not just for her fans...but for all of us.--The Washington PostThe 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 ForewordThe 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Clifton 1965-2010 combines all eleven of Lucille Clifton's published collections with more than fifty previously unpublished poems. The unpublished poems feature early poems from 1965-1969, a collection-in-progress titled the book of days (2008), and a poignant selection of final poems.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 isthat you see me as somethingmore than a common occurrence, more than a woman in her ordinary skin.

Toni Morrison

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(Ohio, 1931 - New York, 2019) Chloe Ardelia Wofford, known under the pseudonym Toni Morrison, is an African American storyteller. She alternated her job as a Humanities professor at Princeton University with literary activity. In her works, she addressed the issues of the black population in the United States, especially the situation of women. She was the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in August 2019 in the small New York village of Grand View-on-Hudson at the age of eighty-eight.

In her works, she addressed the issues of the black population in the United States, as well as other themes such as identity, memory, racism, or cultural resistance. Among her most notable novels are Beloved, with which she won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize, The Bluest Eye, and Song of Solomon.

Her literary style combines deep psychological introspection with unique lyricism, marking a before and after in American literature. Through her work, Morrison left a timeless legacy, giving voice to silenced stories and challenging dominant power structures.

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