Next: New Poems (American Poets Continuum) [Hardcover]

Lucille Clifton (Author)

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1. At Gettysburg
1. At Jonestown
1. At Nagasaki
4 Daughters
Album
Atlantic Is A Sea Of Bones
Botany
Chemotherapy
Chorus: Lucille
Crazy Horse Instructs The Young Men But In Their Grief
Crazy Horse Names His Daughter
Cruelty, Don't Talk To Me About Cruelty
The Death Of Crazy Horse
The Death Of Fred Clifton
The Death Of Joanne C.
The Death Of Thelma Sayles
Enter My Mother
Female
Geography
Grown Daughter
The Hall
Here Is Another Bone To Pick With You
The History
History
I Come To Read Them Poems
I'm Going Back To My True Identity
I. At Creation
If Our Grandchild Be A Girl
Incantation
It Is Late Afternoon
Leukemia As Dream %ritual
Leukemia As White Rabbit
Lives
The Lost Women
The Message Of Crazy Horse
The Message Of Fred Clifton
The Message Of Jo
The Message Of Thelma Sayles
Metaphysics
Morning Mirror
My Dream About Being White
My Dream About Falling
My Dream About God
My Dream About The Cows
My Dream About The Poet
My Dream About The Second Coming
My Dream About Time
My Wife
The One In The Next Bed Is Dying
The Reading
Semantics
Shapeshifter Poems (1)
Shapeshifter Poems (2)
Shapeshifter Poems (3)
Shapeshifter Poems (4)
She Won't Ever Forgive Me
Sorrow Song
There
This Belief
This Is The Tale
The Tour
What Spells Raccoon To Me
Why Some People Be Mad At Me Sometimes
Winnie Song
Woman In The Camp
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Lucille Clifton won the 2007 Ruth Lilly Poetry Award. Her book, Blessing the Boats (BOA Editions), won the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry. Two of Clifton's BOA poetry collections were chosen as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. Clifton's awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and an Emmy Award.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 85 pages
• Publisher: BOA Editions; 1st edition (December 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0918526604
• ISBN-13: 978-0918526601
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,965,373 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars not just any good woman, July 9, 2006

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Melanie H. (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Next: New Poems (American Poets Continuum) (Paperback)

In this thoughtful collection of poetry, Lucille Clifton embraces mortality as quickly as she rejects it. She swallows life's ugliness and spits out something clean like water. Her trademark minimalism is present throughout and as masterful as always.

"Cruelty" made me read it 10x straight... not for understanding, but for the pleasure in the hard beauty and soft power of her words.

You deserve this book.

5.0 out of 5 stars wit and tragedy, May 16, 2000

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margaret ricketts (lexington, ky) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Next: New Poems (American Poets Continuum) (Paperback)

if the name 'lucille' means 'light bearer'' this book filfulls that promise. poets read her work to learn how to compress wit and gravity into a very few lines. i read read this about a decade ago and just looking at the table of contents on Poem Finder bought back a few of the lines -- i forgive my body/ i forgive my blood