A meeting place of myth and the Divine, The Book of Light exists “between starshine and clay' as ...

In 2007, Lucille Clifton became the first African American woman to win the Ruth Lilly Poetry Pri...

LAST COPIES. Poetry. Memoir. African American Studies. A landmark collection by one of America's ...

There is nothing Tee enjoys more than sitting out on the porch with her great-greatmother, listen...

Everett Anderson's Goodbye is a touching portrait of a little boy who is trying to come to grips ...

Poetry. African American Studies. 'Unadorned, Clifton's gemlike forms are resplendent, refracting...

At the Gate gathers more than seventy previously unpublished poems by the iconic American poet Lu...

The long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets working today.

How to Carry Water:Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar andlesser-known wor...

Lucille Clifton was born in Depew, New York in 1936, and educated at the State University of New ...

Finalist, 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. 'Clifton mythologizes herself: that is, she illuminated...