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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 (BO...view moreLucille 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.view less
Books by Lucille Clifton
Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Book of Light: Anniversary Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5the terrible stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Next: New Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5