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Lucille Clifton on generational healing

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Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000

Clifton’s poems owe a great deal to oral tradition. Her work is wonderfully musical and benefits greatly from being read aloud: “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.

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Lucille Clifton
2000
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The Clifton House: A Labor of Love and Legacy

“Always leave a place better than how you found it,” the award-winning poet Lucille Clifton used to tell her daughter, Sidney.

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Amy Stolls and Jessica Flynn
2020
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