{"product_id":"collected-poems-of-lucille-clifton-1965-2010","title":"Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2013 Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The love readers feel for Lucille Clifton--both the woman and her poetry--is constant and deeply felt. The lines that surface most frequently in praise of her work and her person are moving declarations of racial pride, courage, steadfastness.\"--Toni Morrison, from the Foreword\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"If you only read one poetry book in 2012, \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton\u003c\/i\u003e ought to be it.\"--NPR\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The 'Collected Clifton' is a gift, not just for her fans...but for all of us.\"--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010\u003c\/i\u003e combines all eleven of Lucille Clifton's published collections with more than fifty previously unpublished poems. The unpublished poems feature early poems from 1965-1969, a collection-in-progress titled \u003ci\u003ethe book of days\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), and a poignant selection of final poems. An insightful foreword by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison and comprehensive afterword by noted poet Kevin Young frames Clifton's lifetime body of work, providing the definitive statement about this major America poet's career.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn February 13, 2010, the poetry world lost one of its most distinguished members with the passing of Lucille Clifton. In the last year of her life, she was named the first African American woman to receive the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize honoring a US poet whose \"lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition,\" and was posthumously awarded the Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"mother-tongue: to man-kind\" (from the unpublished \u003ci\u003ethe book of days\u003c\/i\u003e):\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eall that I am asking is\u003cbr\u003e that you see me as something\u003cbr\u003e more than a common occurrence,\u003cbr\u003e more than a woman in her ordinary skin.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43586274394309,"sku":"","price":88.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/The_20Collected_20Poems_20of_20Lucille_20Clifton_201965-2010.jpg?v=1716778959","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/collected-poems-of-lucille-clifton-1965-2010","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}