Lucille Clifton (1936–2010)
Autor/a de Everett Anderson's Goodbye
Sobre l'autor
Lucille Clifton was born in Depew, New York on June 27, 1936. She was the first person in her family to graduate from high school. She attended Howard University, where she majored in drama, for two years before deciding that she would rather write poetry. Her first poetry collection Good Times was mostra'n més published in 1969. During her lifetime, she wrote 11 books of poetry and 20 children's books. She won numerous awards including the Coretta Scott King Award for Everett Anderson's Good-bye in 1984, the National Book Award for Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000 in 2001, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize award in 2007. She was the Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1979 to 1985. She died after a long battle with cancer and other illnesses on February 13, 2010 at the age of 73. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Lucille Clifton
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 (American Poets Continuum) (2000) 287 exemplars
How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton (American Poets Continuum Series, 180) (2020) 46 exemplars
Divining Poets: Clifton: A Quotable Deck from Turtle Point Press (Divining Poets: A Quotable Deck from Turtle Point… (2021) 1 exemplars
An ordinary woman 1 exemplars
Homage to My Hips 1 exemplars
sorrows 1 exemplars
Clifton, Lucille Thelma Archive 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Col·laborador — 199 exemplars
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Col·laborador — 171 exemplars
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Col·laborador — 156 exemplars
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Col·laborador — 119 exemplars
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Col·laborador — 106 exemplars
Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 (1994) — Col·laborador — 83 exemplars
Make a Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African American Poets (1991) — Col·laborador — 78 exemplars
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Col·laborador — 41 exemplars
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (2006) — Col·laborador — 30 exemplars
The Roads from Bethlehem: Christmas Literature from Writers Ancient and Modern (1993) — Col·laborador — 28 exemplars
Beat the Drum, Independence Day Has Come: Poems for the Fourth of July (1977) — Col·laborador — 28 exemplars
What God Is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color (2019) — Col·laborador — 17 exemplars
Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics Across North America (2012) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Clifton, Thelma Lucille Sayles
- Altres noms
- Clifton, Lucille
- Data de naixement
- 1936-06-27
- Data de defunció
- 2010-02-13
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Depew, New York, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Depew, New York, USA (birth)
New York, USA
Columbia, Maryland, USA - Educació
- Howard University (Washington, DC, age 16)
Fredonia State Teachers College (1955) - Professions
- poet
author
children's book author
writer in residence (Coppin State College ∙ Baltimore ∙ Maryland ∙ 1971)
Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets (1999)
poet laureate (State of Maryland ∙ 1979-1982) (mostra-les totes 9)
Distinguished Professor of Humanities (St. Mary's College of Maryland)
claims clerk (New York State Division of Employment ∙ Buffalo ∙ 1958-1960)
literature assistant (Office of Education ∙ Washington ∙ D.C. ∙ 1960-1971) - Premis i honors
- Shelley Memorial Award (1991/1992)
Lannan Literary Award (Poetry ∙ 1996)
National Book Award (2000)
Pulitzer Prize Nomination (1987)
University of Massachusetts Press Juniper Prize (1980)
Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (mostra-les totes 10)
two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
YM-YWHA Poetry Center Discovery Award
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2007)
Frost Medal (2010) - Biografia breu
- Lucille Clifton was born in Depew, New York. Named after her great-grandmother who, according to her father, was the first black woman to be legally hanged in the state of Virginia, she was raised with two half-sisters and a brother. Growing up, she recalls hearing the word 'nigger'. She knew that it wasn't her, and she thought, "'Well, I'll have to suspect everything they say, won't I?' And I've always been a very curious person, interested in a lot of things, and, so, in writing, I never thought I would be a poet" (qtd in Davis).
Clifton was awarded a scholarship to Howard University, becoming the first person in her family to finish high school and consider college, entering as a drama major. After two years she lost her scholarship and told her father, "I don't need that stuff. I'm going to write poems. I can do what I want to do! I'm from Dahomey women!" It was at this point that Clifton's writing began.
In a writer's group she met a man named Ishmael Reed, who showed some of her poems to Langston Hughes. He was the first to publish Clifton, premiering her work in the anthology Poetry of the Negro. Her first complete book of poems, Good Times, was published in 1969. She has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her first children's book, Some of the Days of Everett Anderson (1970), launched her into writing children's stories. Clifton was recently interviewed as part of "The Language of Life," with Bill Moyers, a major video series exploring the American phenomenon of public poetry. She has been honored as Poet Laureate of Maryland, and currently teaches as a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College of Maryland.
Lucille's poetry is straightforward and makes use of vernacular speech. Her poems contain compassion and a high level of emotion, which is uniquely American. Her African roots and her personal history have become the basis of her writing. Other common themes include family, death, birth, and religion. She says, "the proper subject matter for poetry is life" (qtd in Davis). She asserts that the reason to write poetry is to assert the importance of being human.
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Excellent. Love her voice. Looking forward to the next collection.
A young girl is convinced everyone in her family makes promises to her that only she remembers
Lucille Clifton was an American poet, writer, and educator from New York.
Common topics in her poetry include the celebration of her African American heritage,
and feminist themes, with particular emphasis on the female body
Good Times, her first book of poems, was published in 1969. She has since
been honored as Maryland's Poet Laureate.
Lucille Clifton was an American poet, writer, and educator from New York.
Common topics in her poetry include the celebration of her African American heritage,
and feminist themes, with particular emphasis on the female body
Good Times, her first book of poems, was published in 1969. She has since
been honored as Maryland's Poet Laureate.
This slim book is a memoir, and a family history. Written by a poet, which gives it an ease and pacing and repetition that is memorable, comfortable, and feels very safe and homey.
Clifton frames this around her father's funeral, a time when she traveled home, saw lots of relatives, and thought a lot about her father's life and the stories he told about their family history. And that is what we have here. The repetition feels exactly like a parent telling their children stories--the same things pop up here and there, with different phrasing and context. She frames how he taught her to be brave and capable and confident despite your surroundings, just like his great-grandmother who raised him from the age of 8. Clifton took all of this to heart.
There is a good family tree (with sources) on familysearch.org. It does not go back to Carolie and the first Lucy--whether their passed-down history is exactly 100% true (lack of online sources does not mean it is not true, as any historian or genealogist can confirm) is irrelevant in light of the relevance and importance of the stories to the later generations, giving them history and background and love.
As a historian and genealogist, I wish everyone (especially the oldest generations) would write their own version of this. No they would not be poetic and evocative like this, but they would still be important within their own families and even to their own local historical/genealogical societies.… (més)
Clifton frames this around her father's funeral, a time when she traveled home, saw lots of relatives, and thought a lot about her father's life and the stories he told about their family history. And that is what we have here. The repetition feels exactly like a parent telling their children stories--the same things pop up here and there, with different phrasing and context. She frames how he taught her to be brave and capable and confident despite your surroundings, just like his great-grandmother who raised him from the age of 8. Clifton took all of this to heart.
There is a good family tree (with sources) on familysearch.org. It does not go back to Carolie and the first Lucy--whether their passed-down history is exactly 100% true (lack of online sources does not mean it is not true, as any historian or genealogist can confirm) is irrelevant in light of the relevance and importance of the stories to the later generations, giving them history and background and love.
As a historian and genealogist, I wish everyone (especially the oldest generations) would write their own version of this. No they would not be poetic and evocative like this, but they would still be important within their own families and even to their own local historical/genealogical societies.… (més)
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