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Voices (American Poets Continuum) by Lucille Clifton, 2008-11-01 the terrible stories (American Poets Continuum) by Lucille Clifton, 1996-09-01 Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 (American Poets Continuum) by Lucille Clifton, 1987-11-01 Next: New Poems (American Poets Continuum) by Lucille Clifton, 1989-12-01 Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 (American Poets Continuum) by Lucille Clifton, 2000-04-01 The Boy Who Didn't Believe in Spring (Picture Puffins) by Lucille Clifton, 1992-08-15 The Book of Light by Lucille Clifton, 1992-07-01 Mercy (American Poets Continuum) by Lucille Clifton, 2004-09-01 Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 (American Poets Continuum Series, Vol. 21) by Lucille Clifton, 2000-09-01 Wild Blessings: The Poetry of Lucille Clifton (Southern Literary Studies) by Hilary Holladay, 2004-08-30 Good Times: Poems by Lucille Clifton, 1969 The Black b C's by Lucille Clifton, 1973 Good Times by Lucille Clifton, 1969 Generations: A memoir by Lucille Clifton, 1976

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1. New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers In America Chapter 13 -- Lucille Clifton
   Chapter 13 Lucille clifton lucille Clifton, Lucille Clifton (1936 ).Lucille Clifton was born Thelma Lucille Sayles in Depew, New York.  
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   Extractions: Lucille Clifton was born Thelma Lucille Sayles in Depew, New York. She learned very early in life to appreciate the power of words from her mother, who wrote poems, and from her father, who loved to tell stories about his ancestors. Clifton attended Howard University where she majored in drama and wrote fiction and poetry. She next attended Fredonia State Teachers College, but left before she completed her degree, having decided to become a professional writer. The next decade was spent working, however, and raising six children with her husband, a university professor. Clifton's life began to center on her poetry in the late 1960s when Ishmael Reed sent some of her poems to Langston Hughes, who published them in his anthology, Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970 (1970). Her poetry continued to gain notice, and the strong reception of her first collection, Good Times (1969) brought her an appointment as poet-in-residence at Coppin State College in Baltimore. The New York Times named Good Times as one of the best books of the year. With the simple and musical language that would become her trademark, Clifton conveys the resilience and dignity of black families, her most common theme. A second collection of poetry

2. Lucille Clifton
   Lucille Clifton. 1936. Nationality American Occupation Poet, Writer, Educator.PERSONAL. Clifton, Lucille. Generations. New York Random House, 1976.  
   http://www.africanpubs.com/Apps/bios/0366CliftonLucille.asp?pic=none

3. Lucille Clifton
   LUCILLE CLIFTON is a prolific and acclaimed poet twice nominated for the PulitzerPrize. Lucille Clifton teaching guide and poems from Fooling With Words.  
   http://www.grdodge.org/poetry/content_Clifton.htm
   
   Extractions: “The proper subject matter for poetry is life. I tell students all the time that there are people who would say, 'Well, how can I relate to your poetry? I am a white male.' But, I write about being human. If you have ever been human, I invite you to that place that we share, and I think you can then share it” LUCILLE CLIFTON is a prolific and acclaimed poet twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Self-taught, she uses plain language to explore life’s complexities and to affirm the spirit’s endurance. She is the author of eleven collections of poetry, most recently Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000 , as well as nineteen popular books for children. A native of Buffalo, New York, she has served on faculties of universities across the country and is currently Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. For many years, she was the Poet Laureate of Maryland. Her many honors, fellowships, and awards include an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a National Book Award Finalist medal, and the prestigious Shelley Memorial Award. In 1999, Lucille Clifton was named Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She lives in Columbia, Maryland.

4. Lucille Clifton
   Lucille Clifton (1936). Lucille Clifton teaches at the Universityof California, Santa Cruz. As a poet, she has been awarded a  
   http://www.geocities.com/womenpoets/clifton.html
   
   Extractions: Lucille Clifton (1936-). Lucille Clifton teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz. As a poet, she has been awarded a Juniper Prize and an Emmy Award. Some of her books include; Generations of Americans: A Memoir Good Times Good News about the Earth An Ordinary Woman (1974), and Two-Headed Woman (1980). She writes from personal and public experience with history. The Lost Baby Poem

5. Clifton Lucille
   clifton lucille Books. Used Books. Music. Movie. Help. Home FAQ/Aboutus Photo © Christopher Felver 1987. Lucille Clifton.  
   http://www.phillips-county.com/cosmetology-school-los-angeles.htm

6. Lucille Clifton
   Lucille Clifton, The Lost Baby Poem. home Last updated 2001.11.7.  
   http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/poetry/html/auth73.html

7. Lucille Clifton
   Lucille Clifton. homage to my hips. the hips are big hips they need space to movearound in. they don't fit into little petty places. these hips are free hips.  
   http://www.angelfire.com/ca/iloveDave/mylc.html

8. Chautauqua 2002 Lecture Platform > Lucille Clifton
   LUCILLE CLIFTON Week Two, Thursday July 4 1045 am. Lucille Cliftonwas born in Depew, New York. Named after her greatgrandmother  
   http://www.chautauqua-inst.org/Lectures/clifton.html
   
   Extractions: In a writer's group she met a man named Ishmael Reed, who showed some of her poems to Langston Hughes. He was the first to publish Clifton, premiering her work in the anthology Poetry of the Negro. Her first complete book of poems, Good Times, was published in 1969. She has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her first children's book, Some of the Days of Everett Anderson (1970) launched her into writing children's stories. Clifton was recently interviewed as part of a major video series exploring the American phenomenon of public poetry, "The Language of Life," with Bill Moyers. She has been honored as Poet Laureate of Maryland, and currently teaches as a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College of Maryland. Lucille's poetry is straightforward and makes use of vernacular speech. Her poems contain compassion and a high level of emotion, which is uniquely American. Her African roots and her personal history have become the basis of her writing. Other common themes include family, death, birth, and religion. She says, "the proper subject matter for poetry is life." (Davis). She asserts that the reason to write poetry is to assert the importance of being human.

9. Works Of Lucille Clifton
   Lucille Clifton Sample Poems and Analysis. Lucille Clifton portrays hermother as a very powerful person in, My Moma Moved Among the Days .  
   http://project1.caryacademy.org/echoes/poet_Lucille_Clifton/samplepoemsclifton.h
   
   Extractions: Lucille Clifton my moma moved among the days like a dream walker in a field; seemed like what she touched was hers seemed like what touched her couldn't hold, she got us almost through the high grass then seems like she turned around and ran right back in right back on in Good Times Analysis In the poem "Good Times", Lucille Clifton reflects on the happier days of her youth. By pointing out specifically that the rent is paid and the insurance man is gone, she implies that at other not so good times, these were problems for her family. Bread signifies the luxuries of financial stability. Clifton not only addresses money but also mentions he grandfather and uncle's wellbeing. To Clifton, the good times were when the family was together and happy, free from worrying about money. In the end when she tell the children to think about the the Good Times she is trying make them not forget in bad times that good times do exist, and they can take you away from the pain of bad times. Good Times my daddy has paid the rent

10. Children's Books Clifton, Lucille,Grifalconi, Ann Shopping
    Author clifton lucille Grifalconi Ann Subject Children's Books Title EverettAnderson's Goodbye (Reading Rainbow) How to Draw the Human Figure (Famou  
    http://www.track-books.com/Everett_Andersons_Goodbye_Reading_Rainbow_0805008004.

11. Clifton, Lucille - Felice Aull's Page
    Explore an annotated list of selected poems by prizewinning poet lucille clifton. ©New York University. 1993-2003. clifton, lucille  
    http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/clifton69-au-.

12. Voices From The Gaps: Lucille Clifton
    Voices From the Gaps is a World Wide Web project that focuses on the lives and works of women writers of color in North America. BIOGRAPHY CRITICISM. lucille clifton was born in Depew, New York.  
    http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/LucilleClifton.html

13. About Lucille Clifton
    About lucille clifton Jocelyn K. Moody lucille Sayles clifton was born in Depew, New York, to Samuel L. and Thelma Moore Sayles. Her father worked for the New York steel mills; her mother was a launderer, homemaker, and avocational poet. Although  
    http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/clifton/about.htm
    
    Extractions: About Lucille Clifton Jocelyn K. Moody L ucille Sayles Clifton was born in Depew, New York, to Samuel L. and Thelma Moore Sayles. Her father worked for the New York steel mills; her mother was a launderer, homemaker, and avocational poet. Although neither parent was formally educated, they provided their large family with an appreciation and an abundance of books, especially those by African Americans. At age sixteen, Lucille entered college early, matriculating as a drama major at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Her Howard associates included such intellectuals as Sterling A. Brown, A. B. Spellman, Chloe Wofford (now Toni Morrison), who later edited her writings for Random House, and Fred Clifton, whom she married in 1958. After transferring to Fredonia State Teachers College in 1955, Clifton worked as an actor and began to cultivate in poetry the minimalist characteristics that would become her professional signature. Like other prominent Black Aesthetic poets consciously breaking with Eurocentric conventions, including Sonia Sanchez and her Howard colleague, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Clifton developed such stylistic features as concise, untitled free verse lyrics of mostly iambic trimeter lines, occasional slant rhymes, anaphora and other forms of repetition, puns and allusions, lowercase letters, sparse punctuation, and a lean lexicon of rudimentary but evocative words. Poet Robert Hayden entered her poems into competition for the 1969 YW-YMHA Poetry Center Discovery Award. She won the award and with it the publication of her first volume of poems

14. Poetry: Lucille Clifton
    Photo © Christopher Felver 1987 lucille clifton About lucille clifton On "poem to my uterus" and "to my last period" On "at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, South Carolina, 1989" On "brothers" clifton Book Jackets Online Poems  
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    Extractions: MM_preloadImages('../images/m_research_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_related_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_literary_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_critical_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_essays_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_poetry_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_drama_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_fiction_o.gif'); clifton69-au-.html This brief page includes several of Clifton's poems along with summaries and commentaries. Clifton's page is one of many at the larger, intriguing Literature and Medicine Web site, part of the Hippocrates Project from the NYU School of Medicine. American Academy of Poets?Poetry Exhibits: Lucille Clifton

15. Lucille Clifton - The Academy Of American Poets
    lucille clifton The Academy of American Poets presents biographies, photographs,selected poems, and links as part of its online poetry exhibits.  
    http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=80

16. Lucille Clifton - The Academy Of American Poets
    The Academy of American Poets presents a biography, photograph, and selected poems.  
    http://www.poets.org/LIT/poet/lcliffst.htm
    
    Extractions: poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits about the academy Search Larger Type Find a Poet Find a Poem Listening Booth ... Add to a Notebook Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton was born in Depew, New York, in 1936. Her books of poetry include Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 (BOA Editions, 2000), which won the National Book Award; The Terrible Stories (1995), which was nominated for the National Book Award; The Book of Light Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 Next: New Poems Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 (1987), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; Two-Headed Woman (1980), also a Pulitzer Prize nominee and winner of the University of Massachusetts Press Juniper Prize; An Ordinary Woman Good News About the Earth (1972); and Good Times (1969). She has also written Generations: A Memoir (1976) and more than sixteen books for children. Her honors include an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a Lannan Literary Award, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the YM-YWHA Poetry Center Discovery Award. In 1999 she was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. She has served as Poet Laureate for the State of Maryland and is currently Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College of Maryland. This bio was last updated on Nov 16, 2000.

17. Lucille Clifton - The Academy Of American Poets
    lucille clifton miss rosie. The Academy of American Poets Add to aNotebook miss rosie lucille clifton. when I watch you wrapped  
    http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=1460

18. Copper Canyon Press
    Authors include Pablo Neruda, Thomas McGrath, lucille clifton, Carolyn Kizer, W.S. Merwin, Hayden Carruth, Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, Olga Broumas. Includes a catalog of publications and a calendar of events.  
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19. Voices From The Gaps: Lucille Clifton
    RELATED LINKS clifton, lucilleLiterature and Medicine at New York UniversityContains a small selection of annotations on works by the author, as well as  
    http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/CLIFTONlucille.html
    
    Extractions: b.1936 PROJECT INFO Overview and purpose of the program Awards List of contributors Permissions list ... Contact us (please note that we have no contact with the writers and cannot provide contact information) "...the proper subject matter for poetry is life. I tell students all the time that there are people who would say, 'Well, how can I relate to your poetry? I am a white male.' But, I write about being human. If you have ever been human, I invite you to that place that we share, and I think you can then share it." National Public Radio interview Lucille Clifton [Photo credits] Click to go to: Biography - Criticism Selected Bibliography Related Links BIOGRAPHY - CRITICISM Lucille Clifton was born in Depew, New York. Named after her great-grandmother who, according to her father, was the first Black woman to be legally hanged in the state of Virginia, she was raised with two half-sisters and a brother. Growing up, she recalls hearing the word 'nigger'. She knew that it wasn't her, and she thought, "'Well, I'll have to suspect everything they say, won't I?' And I've always been a very curious person, interested in a lot of things, and, so, in writing, I never thought I would be a poet," (Davis).

20. Clifton, Lucille Scar
    Literature Annotations. clifton, lucille scar. Genre, Poem. Summary, In1994, lucille clifton was diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer.  
    http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/clifton1405-d
    
    Extractions: scar Genre Poem Keywords Body Self-Image Cancer Disease and Health Survival ... Women's Health Summary In 1994, Lucille Clifton was diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer. This short (12 line) poem, part of the sequence, "From the Cadaver" in this collection, describes an aspect of that experience. The mastectomy scar is an integral part of the narrator's body, a physical presence that the poet addresses as if it were a person: "we will learn / to live together." At the same time, the scar marks a cataclysmic event in the poet's life; it is the "edge of before and after." Finally, the scar speaks. " . . . i will not fall off." Commentary Clifton captures eloquently and with great economy the physical reality and symbolic significance of the mastectomy scar. It is a permanent reminder of mortality, yet a feature of the anatomy that one will (must) learn to accept. See also another poem in the "From the Cadaver" sequence

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