Clifton's poems are economic, but not without power. I'm so glad it finally made its way off of my shelves and into my hands. Other than the periodical flip-through, however, I'd never read through much of it until now. It feels like a unique approach I haven’t encountered before.Īs the 2004 inscription reminds me, I have owned this collection for quite some time. It can be devastating, but also simple and playful raw and unfiltered.
I think timing is everything with me and poetry, so I’ll be sure to revisit her again. Lucille Clifton is clearly brilliant, and I wanted to love all of these, but many didn’t resonate with me. In 2006, she was a fellow at Dartmouth College.Ĭlifton received the Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement posthumously, from the Poetry Society of America. From 1995 to 1999, she was a visiting professor at Columbia University. She was Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. In 2000, she won the National Book Award for Poetry, for her work "Poems Seven".įrom 1985 to 1989, Clifton was a professor of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 1976, Generations: A Memoir was published. Clifton's foray into writing for children began with Some of the Days of Everett Anderson, published in 1970.
She has since been nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and has been honored as Maryland's Poet Laureate. Good Times, her first book of poems, was published in 1969.
She started Howard University on scholarship as a drama major but lost the scholarship two years later. She was the first person in her family to finish high school and attend college. Common topics in her poetry include the celebration of her African American heritage, and feminist themes, with particular emphasis on the female body. Lucille Clifton was an American poet, writer, and educator from New York.
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