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Lucille Clifton

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  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Lucille Clifton is the author of eleven books of poetry, one prose collection and nineteen books for children.
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    the angels have no wings
    they come to you wearing
    their own clothes
    they have learned to love you
    and will keep coming
    unless you insist on wings
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    whether in spirit
    or out of spirit
    we don’t know
    only that balance
    is the law
    balance
    or be balanced
    whether in body
    or out of body
    we don’t know
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    the air
    you have polluted
    you will breathe
    the waters
    you have poisoned
    you will drink
    when you come again
    and you will come again
    the air
    you have polluted
    you will breathe
    the waters
    you have poisoned
    you will drink
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following journals, in which some of these poems first appeared: Callaloo, Kestrel, Lyric, and Runes.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Thanks also to National Public Radio, which aired Ms. Clifton reading her sequence “september song: a poem in 7 days.”
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Her collection, Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 received the National Book Award for Poetry.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Other honors include an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Shelley Memorial Prize, the Charity Randall Citation, and a Lannan Literary Award.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    In 1996, she was a National Book Award Finalist for The Terrible Stories and was the only poet ever to have two books (next: new poems and good woman: poems and a memoir 1969-1980) chosen as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in the same year.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Appointed a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 1999 and elected a Fellow in Literature of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Clifton currently resides in Columbia, Maryland, where she is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities and holds the Hilda C. Landers Chair in the Liberal Arts at St. Mary’s
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