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Brockport, N.Y. : BOA Editions, 1991.
Description
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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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
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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. Show Less