Lucille Clifton
1) Mercy: poems
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume 86
Publisher
BOA Editions, Ltd
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Buffalo. A father's funeral. Memory. In Generations, Louise Clifton's formidable poetic gift emerges in prose, giving us a memoir of stark and profound beauty. Her story focuses on the lives of the Sayles family: Caroline, "born among the Dahomey people in 1822," who walked north from New Orleans to Virginia in 1830 when she was eight years old; Lucy, the first black woman to be hanged in Virginia; and Gene, born with a withered arm, the son of a...
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume 134
Publisher
BOA Editions
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Combines all eleven of Lucille Clifton's published collections with more than sixty previously unpublished poems. The unpublished works feature early poems from 1965-1969, a collection-in-progress titled Book of days (2008), and a selection of final poems.