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Lucille Cliftons poetry carries her deep concerns for the worlds children, the stratification of American society, those people lost or forgotten amid the crushing race of Western materialism and technology. In turns sad, troubled and angry, her voice has always been one of great empathy, knowing, as she says, the only mercy is memory. In this, her 12th book of poetry, the National Book Award-winner speaks to the tenuous relationship between mothers and daughters, the debilitating power of cancer, the open wound of racial prejudice, the redemptive gift of story-telling. September Song, a sequence of seven poems, featured on National Public Radio, presents a modern-day Orpheus who, through her grief, attempts to heart-intelligently respond to the events of September 11th. The last sequence of poemsa tightly-woven fabric of caveats and prayerswas initially written in the 1970s, then revised and reshaped in the last few years. Lucille Clifton is an award-winning poet, fiction writer and author of childrens books. Her most recent poetry book, Blessing the New and Selected Poems 19691999 (BOA), won the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry. Two of Cliftons BOA poetry collections, Good Poe

Author

Lucille Clifton

Publisher

BOA Editions, Limited

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781929918546

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.15 / 5 (182 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14