1. New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers In America Chapter 13 -- Lucille Clifton Chapter 13 Lucille clifton lucille Clifton, Lucille Clifton (1936 ).Lucille Clifton was born Thelma Lucille Sayles in Depew, New York. http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/quashie/chapter13/custom1/deluxe-conte

Chapter 13: Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton was born Thelma Lucille Sayles in Depew, New York. She learned very early in life to appreciate the power of words from her mother, who wrote poems, and from her father, who loved to tell stories about his ancestors. Clifton attended Howard University where she majored in drama and wrote fiction and poetry. She next attended Fredonia State Teachers College, but left before she completed her degree, having decided to become a professional writer. The next decade was spent working, however, and raising six children with her husband, a university professor. Clifton's life began to center on her poetry in the late 1960s when Ishmael Reed sent some of her poems to Langston Hughes, who published them in his anthology, Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970 (1970). Her poetry continued to gain notice, and the strong reception of her first collection, Good Times (1969) brought her an appointment as poet-in-residence at Coppin State College in Baltimore. The New York Times named Good Times as one of the best books of the year. With the simple and musical language that would become her trademark, Clifton conveys the resilience and dignity of black families, her most common theme. A second collection of poetry

2. Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton. 1936. Nationality American Occupation Poet, Writer, Educator.PERSONAL. Clifton, Lucille. Generations. New York Random House, 1976. http://www.africanpubs.com/Apps/bios/0366CliftonLucille.asp?pic=none

3. Lucille Clifton LUCILLE CLIFTON is a prolific and acclaimed poet twice nominated for the PulitzerPrize. Lucille Clifton teaching guide and poems from Fooling With Words. http://www.grdodge.org/poetry/content_Clifton.htm

“The proper subject matter for poetry is life. I tell students all the time that there are people who would say, 'Well, how can I relate to your poetry? I am a white male.' But, I write about being human. If you have ever been human, I invite you to that place that we share, and I think you can then share it” LUCILLE CLIFTON is a prolific and acclaimed poet twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Self-taught, she uses plain language to explore life’s complexities and to affirm the spirit’s endurance. She is the author of eleven collections of poetry, most recently Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000 , as well as nineteen popular books for children. A native of Buffalo, New York, she has served on faculties of universities across the country and is currently Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. For many years, she was the Poet Laureate of Maryland. Her many honors, fellowships, and awards include an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a National Book Award Finalist medal, and the prestigious Shelley Memorial Award. In 1999, Lucille Clifton was named Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She lives in Columbia, Maryland.

4. Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton (1936). Lucille Clifton teaches at the Universityof California, Santa Cruz. As a poet, she has been awarded a http://www.geocities.com/womenpoets/clifton.html

Lucille Clifton (1936-). Lucille Clifton teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz. As a poet, she has been awarded a Juniper Prize and an Emmy Award. Some of her books include; Generations of Americans: A Memoir Good Times Good News about the Earth An Ordinary Woman (1974), and Two-Headed Woman (1980). She writes from personal and public experience with history. The Lost Baby Poem the time i dropped your almost body down down to meet the waters under the city and run one with the sewage to the sea what did i know about waters rushing back what did i know about drowning or being drowned you would have been born into winter in the year of the disconnected gas and no car     we would have made the thin walk over genesee hill into the canada wind to watch you slip like ice into strangers' hands you would have fallen naked as snow into winter if you were here i could tell you these and some other things if i am ever less than a mountain for your definite brothers and sisters let the rivers pour over my head let the sea take me for a spiller of seas     let black men call me a stranger always     for your never named sake Homage to My Hips these hips are big hips.

5. Clifton Lucille clifton lucille Books. Used Books. Music. Movie. Help. Home FAQ/Aboutus Photo © Christopher Felver 1987. Lucille Clifton. http://www.phillips-county.com/cosmetology-school-los-angeles.htm

6. Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton, The Lost Baby Poem. home Last updated 2001.11.7. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/poetry/html/auth73.html

Lucille Clifton The Lost Baby Poem [home] Last updated: 2001.11.7.

7. Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton. homage to my hips. the hips are big hips they need space to movearound in. they don't fit into little petty places. these hips are free hips. http://www.angelfire.com/ca/iloveDave/mylc.html

Lucille Clifton homage to my hips the hips are big hips they need space to move around in. they don't fit into little petty places. these hips are free hips. they don't like to be held back. these hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they do what they want to do. these hips are mighty hips. these hips are magic hips. i have known them to put a spell on a man and spin him like a top! there is a girl inside. she is randy as a wolf. she will not walk away and leave these bones to an old woman. she is a green tree in a forest of kindling. she is a green girl in a used poet. she has waited patient as a nun for the second coming, when she can break through gray hairs into blossom and her lovers will harvest honey and thyme and the woods will be wild with the damn wonder of it. the lost women i need to know their names those women i would have walked with jauntily the way men go in groups swinging their arms, and the ones those sweating women whom i would have joined after a hard game to chew the fat what would we have called each other laughing joking into our beer? where are my gangs

8. Chautauqua 2002 Lecture Platform > Lucille Clifton LUCILLE CLIFTON Week Two, Thursday July 4 1045 am. Lucille Cliftonwas born in Depew, New York. Named after her greatgrandmother http://www.chautauqua-inst.org/Lectures/clifton.html

LUCILLE CLIFTON 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 a major video series exploring the American phenomenon of public poetry, "The Language of Life," with Bill Moyers. 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." (Davis). She asserts that the reason to write poetry is to assert the importance of being human.

9. Works Of Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton Sample Poems and Analysis. Lucille Clifton portrays hermother as a very powerful person in, My Moma Moved Among the Days . http://project1.caryacademy.org/echoes/poet_Lucille_Clifton/samplepoemsclifton.h

Echoes Main Biography Sample Poetry Inspired Poems ... Bibliography Lucille Clifton Sample Poems and Analysis My Moma Moved Among the Days Analysis My Moma Moved Among the Days Lucille Clifton my moma moved among the days like a dream walker in a field; seemed like what she touched was hers seemed like what touched her couldn't hold, she got us almost through the high grass then seems like she turned around and ran right back in right back on in Good Times Analysis In the poem "Good Times", Lucille Clifton reflects on the happier days of her youth. By pointing out specifically that the rent is paid and the insurance man is gone, she implies that at other not so good times, these were problems for her family. Bread signifies the luxuries of financial stability. Clifton not only addresses money but also mentions he grandfather and uncle's wellbeing. To Clifton, the good times were when the family was together and happy, free from worrying about money. In the end when she tell the children to think about the the Good Times she is trying make them not forget in bad times that good times do exist, and they can take you away from the pain of bad times. Good Times my daddy has paid the rent and the insurance man is gone and the lights back on

10. Children's Books Clifton, Lucille,Grifalconi, Ann Shopping Author clifton lucille Grifalconi Ann Subject Children's Books Title EverettAnderson's Goodbye (Reading Rainbow) How to Draw the Human Figure (Famou http://www.track-books.com/Everett_Andersons_Goodbye_Reading_Rainbow_0805008004.

Children's Books Clifton, Lucille,Grifalconi, Ann shopping Author: Clifton Lucille Grifalconi Ann Subject: Children's Books Title: Everett Anderson's Goodbye (Reading Rainbow) The Complete Phantom of the Opera... Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee : An ... Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You... Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You... ... Home

11. Clifton, Lucille - Felice Aull's Page Explore an annotated list of selected poems by prizewinning poet lucille clifton. ©New York University. 1993-2003. clifton, lucille http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/clifton69-au-.

About the Database Editorial Board Annotators What's New ... MedHum Home 49th Edition-April 2003 Art Annotations Artists Meet the Artist Viewing Room ... Art in Literature Literature Annotations Authors Meet the Authors Listening Room ... Reading Room Performing Arts Film/Video Annotations Screening Room Theater Search Options Word/Phrase (All) Word/Phrase (Lit) Keyword Annotator ... Special Author Asterisks indicate multimedia Comments/Inquiries Clifton, Lucille On-Line Author Site Sex Female National Origin United States of America Ethnic Origin African-American Era Late 20th Century Born Awards Juniper Prize, Lannan Literary Award, National Book Award Annotated Works Amazons dialysis donor forgiving my father ... wishes for sons

12. Voices From The Gaps: Lucille Clifton Voices From the Gaps is a World Wide Web project that focuses on the lives and works of women writers of color in North America. BIOGRAPHY CRITICISM. lucille clifton was born in Depew, New York. http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/LucilleClifton.html

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13. About Lucille Clifton About lucille clifton Jocelyn K. Moody lucille Sayles clifton was born in Depew, New York, to Samuel L. and Thelma Moore Sayles. Her father worked for the New York steel mills; her mother was a launderer, homemaker, and avocational poet. Although http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/clifton/about.htm

About Lucille Clifton Jocelyn K. Moody L ucille Sayles Clifton was born in Depew, New York, to Samuel L. and Thelma Moore Sayles. Her father worked for the New York steel mills; her mother was a launderer, homemaker, and avocational poet. Although neither parent was formally educated, they provided their large family with an appreciation and an abundance of books, especially those by African Americans. At age sixteen, Lucille entered college early, matriculating as a drama major at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Her Howard associates included such intellectuals as Sterling A. Brown, A. B. Spellman, Chloe Wofford (now Toni Morrison), who later edited her writings for Random House, and Fred Clifton, whom she married in 1958. After transferring to Fredonia State Teachers College in 1955, Clifton worked as an actor and began to cultivate in poetry the minimalist characteristics that would become her professional signature. Like other prominent Black Aesthetic poets consciously breaking with Eurocentric conventions, including Sonia Sanchez and her Howard colleague, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Clifton developed such stylistic features as concise, untitled free verse lyrics of mostly iambic trimeter lines, occasional slant rhymes, anaphora and other forms of repetition, puns and allusions, lowercase letters, sparse punctuation, and a lean lexicon of rudimentary but evocative words. Poet Robert Hayden entered her poems into competition for the 1969 YW-YMHA Poetry Center Discovery Award. She won the award and with it the publication of her first volume of poems

14. Poetry: Lucille Clifton Photo © Christopher Felver 1987 lucille clifton About lucille clifton On "poem to my uterus" and "to my last period" On "at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, South Carolina, 1989" On "brothers" clifton Book Jackets Online Poems http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/poetry/clifton.htm

MM_preloadImages('../images/m_research_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_related_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_literary_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_critical_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_essays_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_poetry_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_drama_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_fiction_o.gif'); Lucille Clifton (b. 1936) LINKS http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/ clifton69-au-.html This brief page includes several of Clifton's poems along with summaries and commentaries. Clifton's page is one of many at the larger, intriguing Literature and Medicine Web site, part of the Hippocrates Project from the NYU School of Medicine. American Academy of Poets?Poetry Exhibits: Lucille Clifton http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=80 The American Academy of Poets presents a biography of Clifton, links to the text and audio recordings of a selection of her works, and links to other Clifton sites. Heath Anthology Online Teaching Guide: Lucille Clifton http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/clifton.htm

15. Lucille Clifton - The Academy Of American Poets lucille clifton The Academy of American Poets presents biographies, photographs,selected poems, and links as part of its online poetry exhibits. http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=80

16. Lucille Clifton - The Academy Of American Poets The Academy of American Poets presents a biography, photograph, and selected poems. http://www.poets.org/LIT/poet/lcliffst.htm

poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits about the academy Search Larger Type Find a Poet Find a Poem Listening Booth ... Add to a Notebook Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton was born in Depew, New York, in 1936. Her books of poetry include Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 (BOA Editions, 2000), which won the National Book Award; The Terrible Stories (1995), which was nominated for the National Book Award; The Book of Light Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 Next: New Poems Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 (1987), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; Two-Headed Woman (1980), also a Pulitzer Prize nominee and winner of the University of Massachusetts Press Juniper Prize; An Ordinary Woman Good News About the Earth (1972); and Good Times (1969). She has also written Generations: A Memoir (1976) and more than sixteen books for children. Her honors include an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a Lannan Literary Award, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the YM-YWHA Poetry Center Discovery Award. In 1999 she was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. She has served as Poet Laureate for the State of Maryland and is currently Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College of Maryland. This bio was last updated on Nov 16, 2000.

17. Lucille Clifton - The Academy Of American Poets lucille clifton miss rosie. The Academy of American Poets Add to aNotebook miss rosie lucille clifton. when I watch you wrapped http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=1460

18. Copper Canyon Press Authors include Pablo Neruda, Thomas McGrath, lucille clifton, Carolyn Kizer, W.S. Merwin, Hayden Carruth, Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, Olga Broumas. Includes a catalog of publications and a calendar of events. http://www.ccpress.org/

19. Voices From The Gaps: Lucille Clifton RELATED LINKS clifton, lucilleLiterature and Medicine at New York UniversityContains a small selection of annotations on works by the author, as well as http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/CLIFTONlucille.html

PROJECT WRITERS CLASSROOM SUBMIT ... BY BIRTHPLACE OR RESIDENCE BY RACIAL OR ETHNIC BACKGROUND BY SIGNIFICANT DATES LUCILLE CLIFTON b.1936 PROJECT INFO Overview and purpose of the program Awards List of contributors Permissions list ... Contact us (please note that we have no contact with the writers and cannot provide contact information) "...the proper subject matter for poetry is life. I tell students all the time that there are people who would say, 'Well, how can I relate to your poetry? I am a white male.' But, I write about being human. If you have ever been human, I invite you to that place that we share, and I think you can then share it." National Public Radio interview Lucille Clifton [Photo credits] Click to go to: Biography - Criticism Selected Bibliography Related Links BIOGRAPHY - CRITICISM 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," (Davis).

20. Clifton, Lucille Scar Literature Annotations. clifton, lucille scar. Genre, Poem. Summary, In1994, lucille clifton was diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer. http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/clifton1405-d

About the Database Editorial Board Annotators What's New ... MedHum Home 49th Edition-April 2003 Art Annotations Artists Meet the Artist Viewing Room ... Art in Literature Literature Annotations Authors Meet the Authors Listening Room ... Reading Room Performing Arts Film/Video Annotations Screening Room Theater Search Options Word/Phrase (All) Word/Phrase (Lit) Keyword Annotator ... Special Author Asterisks indicate multimedia Comments/Inquiries Literature Annotations Clifton, Lucille scar Genre Poem Keywords Body Self-Image Cancer Disease and Health Survival ... Women's Health Summary In 1994, Lucille Clifton was diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer. This short (12 line) poem, part of the sequence, "From the Cadaver" in this collection, describes an aspect of that experience. The mastectomy scar is an integral part of the narrator's body, a physical presence that the poet addresses as if it were a person: "we will learn / to live together." At the same time, the scar marks a cataclysmic event in the poet's life; it is the "edge of before and after." Finally, the scar speaks. " . . . i will not fall off." Commentary Clifton captures eloquently and with great economy the physical reality and symbolic significance of the mastectomy scar. It is a permanent reminder of mortality, yet a feature of the anatomy that one will (must) learn to accept. See also another poem in the "From the Cadaver" sequence

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