Lucille Clifton

Lucille Clifton 1936-2010

Submitted by David Cherry on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 3:23pm

Cover Art: Wild Blessings: The Poetry of Lucille Clifton by Hilary HolladayLucille Clifton wrote as close to the bone as a poet can. She cut away much punctuation, all ornament and everything else that was superfluous to the task at hand. Her poems often had the rhythm of speech, but it was speech as one wishes speech could be. 

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