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Lucille Clifton
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born
June 27, 1936
in Depew, New York, The United States
died
February 13, 2010
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Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000
  4.19 avg rating — 422 ratings
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2000
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Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
4.41 avg rating — 262 ratings
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The Book of Light
4.36 avg rating — 188 ratings
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1992
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Quilting: Poems 1987-1990
4.27 avg rating — 97 ratings
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the terrible stories
4.15 avg rating — 86 ratings
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published
1996
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Mercy
4.05 avg rating — 84 ratings
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published
2004
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Next: New Poems
4.28 avg rating — 39 ratings
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published
1987
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Voices
4.28 avg rating — 32 ratings
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published
2008
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Everett Anderson's Goodbye
by Lucille Clifton, Ann Grifalconi   3.74 avg rating — 31 ratings
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published
1983
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The Lucky Stone (Yearling Book)
3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
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1979
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“I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.”
― Lucille Clifton
― Lucille Clifton
“won't you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand holding tight
my other hand; come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.”
― Lucille Clifton
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand holding tight
my other hand; come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.”
― Lucille Clifton
“the lost women
I need to know their names
those women I would have walked with,
jauntily the way men go in groups
swinging their arms, and the ones
those sweating women whom I would have joined
After a hard game to chew the fat
what would we have called each other laughing
joking into our beer? where are my gangs,
my teams, my mislaid sisters?
all the women who could have known me,
where in the world are their names?
”
― Lucille Clifton
I need to know their names
those women I would have walked with,
jauntily the way men go in groups
swinging their arms, and the ones
those sweating women whom I would have joined
After a hard game to chew the fat
what would we have called each other laughing
joking into our beer? where are my gangs,
my teams, my mislaid sisters?
all the women who could have known me,
where in the world are their names?
”
― Lucille Clifton
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| The Book Challenge: Sarah's 2008 Book Challenge v2.0 - Fini! | 5 | 548 | Dec 29, 2008 09:31am | |
| Literary Fiction ...: Farewell to Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936- February 13, 2010) | 7 | 25 | Feb 15, 2010 10:20am | |
| Constant Reader: Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936- February 13, 2010) | 5 | 31 | Feb 17, 2010 09:45pm | |
| Literary Fiction ...: Special Celebration of Lucille Clifton on Sunday, June 27 | 3 | 12 | Jun 26, 2010 05:17pm | |
| readers advisory ...: kinga's music challenge | 14 | 76 | Jul 07, 2011 06:19pm | |
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