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false <![CDATA[Voices (American Poets Continuum)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255702960m/5551724.jpg 5551724 2 In 2007, Lucille Clifton became the first African American woman to win the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, one of the most prestigious American poetry awards and one of the largest literary honors for work in the English language. Clifton has also won the National Book Award in poetry for Blessing the Boats (BOA Editions, 2000), and is the only author ever to have two collections, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir (BOA Editions, 1987) and Next: New Poems (BOA Editions, 1987), named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in one year.In Voices, Clifton continues her celebrated aesthetic of writing poems for the disempowered and the underprivileged while finding humor and redemption among life's many hardships. This book also highlights Clifton's ability to write inventive dramatic monologues. Voices includes monologues spoken by animals, as well as by the food product spokespeople Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and the apparently nameless guy on the Cream of Wheat box."cream of wheat"sometimes at night we stroll the market aisles ben and jemima and me they walk in front humming this and that i lag behind trying to remove my chef's cap wondering what ever pictured me then left me personless rastus i read in an old paper that i was called rastus but no mother ever gave that to her son toward dawn we head back to our shelves our boxes ben and jemima and me we pose and smile i simmer to myself what is my nameBOA Editions is thrilled to present the newest poetry collection by the one and only Lucille Clifton. 5722791 1 11 2008 Voices (American Poets Continuum) total:12|5:5|4:5|3:2|2:0|1:0| 12 51 26 4 4 0 false false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 21:05:17 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 21:20:09 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 19:16:04 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 18:48:44 -0800 2008
Winner of the National Book Award
Clifton writes the truths of social injustice .. she writes to the very the depths of love .. she sings in harmony. She is.
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