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93/100Author:
Lucille Clifton, Tracy K. Smith
Publisher:
New York Review Books
Date:
November 16, 2021
Poet Lucille Clifton tells us about the life of an African-American family through slavery and hard times and beyond, of the death of her father and grandmother, but also of all the life and love and triumph that came before and remains even now. Reissue.
What The Reviewers Say
... slender but potent.
By using an iconic American author as the anchor of her narrative, Clifton includes her own family’s history in the American canon.
Prize, the judges wrote that 'One always feels the looming humaneness around Lucille Clifton’s poems—it is a moral quality that some poets have and some don’t.' In Generations, readers will see that her prose—economical, matter-of-fact, and indelible—has that quality as well..
Clifton (1936–2010) distills centuries of family history with the same potent, easy eloquence that has placed her among the first rank of American poets.
