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    Quilting: Poems 1987-1990
    Quilting: Poems 1987-1990
    Quilting: Poems 1987-1990
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    Quilting: Poems 1987-1990

    By Lucille Clifton

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBOA Editions Ltd.
    Release dateAug 18, 2020
    ISBN9780918526373
    Quilting: Poems 1987-1990
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    Lucille Clifton

    Lucille Clifton (1936–2010) was an award winning poet, fiction writer, and author of children’s books. Her poetry collection, Blessing the Boats: New & Selected Poems 1988-2000 (BOA, 2000), won the National Book Award for Poetry. In 1988 she became the only author to have two collections selected in the same year as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir (BOA, 1987), and Next: New Poems (BOA, 1987). In 1996, her collection The Terrible Stories (BOA, 1996), was a finalist for the National Book Award. Among her many other awards and accolades are the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Frost Medal, and an Emmy Award. In 2013, her posthumously published collection The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 (BOA, 2012), was awarded the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry.

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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 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.

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    Quilting - Lucille Clifton

    log cabin

    i am accused of tending to the past

    as if i made it,

    as if i sculpted it

    with my own hands. i did not.

    this past was waiting for me

    when i came,

    a monstrous unnamed baby,

    and i with my mother’s itch

    took it to breast

    and named it

    History.

    she is more human now,

    learning language everyday,

    remembering faces, names and dates.

    when she is strong enough to travel

    on her own, beware, she will.

    note to my self

    it’s a black thing you wouldn’t understand

    (t-shirt)

    amira baraka—i refuse to be judged by white men.

    or defined. and i see

    that even the best

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