Lucille Clifton
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 952173 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lucille Clifton |
| NOMBRES | Lucille |
| APELLIDO | Clifton |
| FIRMA | CLIFTON L |
| AFILIACIONES | Academy of American Poets |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Lucille Clifton and Sonia Sanchez
Cruelty. Don't Talk to Me About Cruelty
Lazarus
Lazarus* Lucille Clifton first day i rise from stiffeninginto a pin of lightand a voice calling"Lazarus, this way"and i walk or ratherswim in a river of soundtoward what seems to beforever i am almostalmost there when i hearbehind me"Lazarus, come forth" andi find myself swivelingin the light for thisis the miracle Mary Martha,at my head and at my feetsinging my nameis the same voice second day i am not the same manborne into the crypt.as ones re…
After the Flood
After the Flood Lucille Clifton here one islandof joywhere there were two here three daughters sailinga four masted arkthrough an ocean of tears i will tell you the truththis is neither beautifulnor just still a God arrivesin a gyre of beespromising honey still we dropto our knees as if we were dry bone whispering amen it is what we doit is what we are [End Page 380] Copyright © 2010 Lucille Clifton Reprinted with permission from Alexia Clifton
After Oz
after oz* Lucille Clifton (bio) midnight we slip into her room and fill her pockets with stones so that she is weighted down so that storms cannot move her she disappears for hours then staggers back smelling of straw of animal perhaps we have lost her perhaps home is no longer comfort or comfort no longer home evenings we sit awake in our disenchanted kitchen listening to the dog whine to dorothy clicking her heels Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifto…
Blessing the Boats
Research Article| March 01 2003 Blessing the Boats Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton lucille clifton is the Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College of Maryland. She has received many fellowships, awards, and distinctions for her poetry collections and children's books, including the Shelley Memorial Prize, the Charity Randall Citation and an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She is the only po…
Lumpectomy Eve
Research Article| March 01 2003 Lumpectomy Eve Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton lucille clifton is the Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College of Maryland. She has received many fellowships, awards, and distinctions for her poetry collections and children's books, including the Shelley Memorial Prize, the Charity Randall Citation and an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She is the only poet t…
Lazarus
Lucille Clifton, Poet Laureate of the State of Maryland (1975-85), was recently awarded the National Book Award for her Blessing the Boats (2000). For her numerous books of poetry she has received many fellowships and awards, including the Shelley Memorial Prize, a Charity Randall Citation, an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a selection as a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library, a Lannan Achievement A…
Here Rests
the bible aloud through the house. when you poem this, and you will, she would say, remember the Book of Job
Stop
it is pronounced like crying it is pronounced like being torn away it is pronounced like trying to re member the shape of an unsafe life
In the Mirror
it is pronounced like crying it is pronounced like being torn away it is pronounced like trying to re member the shape of an unsafe life
This
I'd like Not to Be a Stranger in the World
Signs
Signs Lucille Clifton (bio) Lucille Clifton: A Special Section when the birds begin to walk when the crows in their silk tuxedos stand in the road and watch as oncoming traffic swerves to avoid the valley of dead things when the geese reject the sky and sit on the apron of highway 95 one wing pointing north the other south and what does it mean this morning when a man runs wild eyed from his car shirtless and shoeless his palms spread wide into t…
Photograph
Photograph: The Lynching Lucille Clifton (bio) Lucille Clifton: A Special Section is it the cut glass of their eyes looking up toward the new gnarled branch of a black man hanging from a tree? is it the white milk pleated collar of a woman smiling toward the camera her fingers loose around a christian cross drooping against her breast? or is it all of us captured, gathered by history into an accurate album? will we be required to view it together…
Signs
Signs* Lucille Clifton when the birds begin to walkwhen the crows in their silk tuxedosstand in the road and watchas oncoming traffic swerves to avoidthe valley of dead thingswhen the geese reject the skyand sit on the apron of highway 95one wing pointing north the other southand what does it mean this morningwhen a man runs wild eyed from his carshirtless and shoeless his palms spread wideinto the jungle of traffic into a worldgone awry the bird…
Ten Oxherding Pictures
Study the Masters
Study the Masters Lucille Clifton (bio) Lucille Clifton: A Special Section like my aunt timmie. it was her iron, or one like hers, that smoothed the sheets the master poet slept on. home or hotel, what matters is he lay himself down on her handiwork and dreamed. she dreamed too, words; some cherokee, some masai and some huge and particular as hope. if you had heard her chanting as she ironed you would understand form and line and discipline and o…
An Interview with Lucille Clifton
An Interview with Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton (bio) and Charles H. Rowell Lucille Clifton: A Special Section This interview was conducted August 2, 1998, by telephone between Charlottesville, Virginia, and Columbia, Maryland. ROWELL I would like to begin this interview with your memoir Generations, which was published in 1976. Why did you write Generations? What is its origin? What set you in motion to write it? CLIFTON Well, I had been think…
Alabama 9/15/63
Alabama 9/15/63 Lucille Clifton (bio) Lucille Clifton: A Special Section Have you heard the one about the shivering lives, the never to be borne daughters and sons, the one about Cynthia and Carole and Denise and Addie Mae? Have you heard the one about the four little birds shattered into skylarks in the white light of Birmingham? Have you heard how the skylarks, known for their music, swooped into heaven, how the sunday morning strains shook the…
The Times
The Times Lucille Clifton (bio) Lucille Clifton: A Special Section it is hard to remain human on a day when birds perch weeping in the trees and the squirrel eyes do not look away but the dog ones do in pity. another child has killed a child and i catch myself relieved that they are white and i might understand except that i am tired of understanding. if these alphabets could speak their own tongue it would be all symbol surely; the cat would hun…
Lazarus
Lazarus Lucille Clifton (bio) Cave Canem: A Special Section first day i rise from stiffening into a pin of light and a voice calling “Lazarus, this way” and i walk or rather swim in a river of sound toward what seems to be forever i am almost almost there when i hear behind me “Lazarus, come forth” and i find myself swiveling in the light for this is the miracle Mary Martha, at my head and at my feet singing my name is the same voice second day i…
Eyes
Good Woman
Finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry A landmark collection by one of America's major black poets, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 includes all of Lucille Clifton's first four published collections of extraordinary vibrant poetry-Good Times, Good News About the Earth, An Ordinary Woman, and Two-Headed Woman-as well as her haunting prose memoir, Generations
Black Silence, Black Songs
An Interview with Lucille Clifton
An Interview with Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton (bio) and Charles H. Rowell Lucille Clifton: A Special Section This interview was conducted August 2, 1998, by telephone between Charlottesville, Virginia, and Columbia, Maryland. ROWELL I would like to begin this interview with your memoir Generations, which was published in 1976. Why did you write Generations? What is its origin? What set you in motion to write it? CLIFTON Well, I had been think…
Black Silence, Black Songs
Good Woman
Finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry A landmark collection by one of America's major black poets, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 includes all of Lucille Clifton's first four published collections of extraordinary vibrant poetry-Good Times, Good News About the Earth, An Ordinary Woman, and Two-Headed Woman-as well as her haunting prose memoir, Generations
Eyes
Signs
Signs Lucille Clifton (bio) Lucille Clifton: A Special Section when the birds begin to walk when the crows in their silk tuxedos stand in the road and watch as oncoming traffic swerves to avoid the valley of dead things when the geese reject the sky and sit on the apron of highway 95 one wing pointing north the other south and what does it mean this morning when a man runs wild eyed from his car shirtless and shoeless his palms spread wide into t…
Photograph
Photograph: The Lynching Lucille Clifton (bio) Lucille Clifton: A Special Section is it the cut glass of their eyes looking up toward the new gnarled branch of a black man hanging from a tree? is it the white milk pleated collar of a woman smiling toward the camera her fingers loose around a christian cross drooping against her breast? or is it all of us captured, gathered by history into an accurate album? will we be required to view it together…
Signs
Signs* Lucille Clifton when the birds begin to walkwhen the crows in their silk tuxedosstand in the road and watchas oncoming traffic swerves to avoidthe valley of dead thingswhen the geese reject the skyand sit on the apron of highway 95one wing pointing north the other southand what does it mean this morningwhen a man runs wild eyed from his carshirtless and shoeless his palms spread wideinto the jungle of traffic into a worldgone awry the bird…
Ten Oxherding Pictures
Study the Masters
Study the Masters Lucille Clifton (bio) Lucille Clifton: A Special Section like my aunt timmie. it was her iron, or one like hers, that smoothed the sheets the master poet slept on. home or hotel, what matters is he lay himself down on her handiwork and dreamed. she dreamed too, words; some cherokee, some masai and some huge and particular as hope. if you had heard her chanting as she ironed you would understand form and line and discipline and o…
An Interview with Lucille Clifton
An Interview with Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton (bio) and Charles H. Rowell Lucille Clifton: A Special Section This interview was conducted August 2, 1998, by telephone between Charlottesville, Virginia, and Columbia, Maryland. ROWELL I would like to begin this interview with your memoir Generations, which was published in 1976. Why did you write Generations? What is its origin? What set you in motion to write it? CLIFTON Well, I had been think…
Alabama 9/15/63
Alabama 9/15/63 Lucille Clifton (bio) Lucille Clifton: A Special Section Have you heard the one about the shivering lives, the never to be borne daughters and sons, the one about Cynthia and Carole and Denise and Addie Mae? Have you heard the one about the four little birds shattered into skylarks in the white light of Birmingham? Have you heard how the skylarks, known for their music, swooped into heaven, how the sunday morning strains shook the…
The Times
The Times Lucille Clifton (bio) Lucille Clifton: A Special Section it is hard to remain human on a day when birds perch weeping in the trees and the squirrel eyes do not look away but the dog ones do in pity. another child has killed a child and i catch myself relieved that they are white and i might understand except that i am tired of understanding. if these alphabets could speak their own tongue it would be all symbol surely; the cat would hun…
Lazarus
Lazarus Lucille Clifton (bio) Cave Canem: A Special Section first day i rise from stiffening into a pin of light and a voice calling “Lazarus, this way” and i walk or rather swim in a river of sound toward what seems to be forever i am almost almost there when i hear behind me “Lazarus, come forth” and i find myself swiveling in the light for this is the miracle Mary Martha, at my head and at my feet singing my name is the same voice second day i…
I'd like Not to Be a Stranger in the World
Lazarus
Lucille Clifton, Poet Laureate of the State of Maryland (1975-85), was recently awarded the National Book Award for her Blessing the Boats (2000). For her numerous books of poetry she has received many fellowships and awards, including the Shelley Memorial Prize, a Charity Randall Citation, an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a selection as a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library, a Lannan Achievement A…
Here Rests
the bible aloud through the house. when you poem this, and you will, she would say, remember the Book of Job
Stop
it is pronounced like crying it is pronounced like being torn away it is pronounced like trying to re member the shape of an unsafe life
In the Mirror
it is pronounced like crying it is pronounced like being torn away it is pronounced like trying to re member the shape of an unsafe life
This
Blessing the Boats
Research Article| March 01 2003 Blessing the Boats Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton lucille clifton is the Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College of Maryland. She has received many fellowships, awards, and distinctions for her poetry collections and children's books, including the Shelley Memorial Prize, the Charity Randall Citation and an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She is the only po…
Lumpectomy Eve
Research Article| March 01 2003 Lumpectomy Eve Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton lucille clifton is the Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College of Maryland. She has received many fellowships, awards, and distinctions for her poetry collections and children's books, including the Shelley Memorial Prize, the Charity Randall Citation and an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She is the only poet t…
After Oz
after oz* Lucille Clifton (bio) midnight we slip into her room and fill her pockets with stones so that she is weighted down so that storms cannot move her she disappears for hours then staggers back smelling of straw of animal perhaps we have lost her perhaps home is no longer comfort or comfort no longer home evenings we sit awake in our disenchanted kitchen listening to the dog whine to dorothy clicking her heels Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifto…
Cruelty. Don't Talk to Me About Cruelty
Lazarus
Lazarus* Lucille Clifton first day i rise from stiffeninginto a pin of lightand a voice calling"Lazarus, this way"and i walk or ratherswim in a river of soundtoward what seems to beforever i am almostalmost there when i hearbehind me"Lazarus, come forth" andi find myself swivelingin the light for thisis the miracle Mary Martha,at my head and at my feetsinging my nameis the same voice second day i am not the same manborne into the crypt.as ones re…
After the Flood
After the Flood Lucille Clifton here one islandof joywhere there were two here three daughters sailinga four masted arkthrough an ocean of tears i will tell you the truththis is neither beautifulnor just still a God arrivesin a gyre of beespromising honey still we dropto our knees as if we were dry bone whispering amen it is what we doit is what we are [End Page 380] Copyright © 2010 Lucille Clifton Reprinted with permission from Alexia Clifton
Lucille Clifton and Sonia Sanchez
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