New Releases by Lucille Clifton

Esta antologia oferece um panorama inédito da poesia negra feita por mulheres nos Estados Unidos no século XX, reunindo dezenove poetas com uma amostra significativa de suas produções e linguagens. Ao lado de nomes já reverenciados no Brasil, como Audre Lorde, Maya Angelou, bell hooks e Alice Walker, estão poetas ainda pouco conhecidas que constituem o canône da literatura negra mundial. Caso das pioneiras Angelina Weld Grimké, Gwendolyn Bennett e Gwendolyn Brooks, e representantes da poesia falada e engajada, como Jayne Cortez e Amina Baraka, que despontaram nos anos 1960 e 1970. Período de grande efervescência da cultura negra nos Estados Unidos, as décadas do Black Arts Movement e do Black Power coincidem, não por acaso, com as primeiras publicações das sólidas carreiras de grande parte dessas poetas, como Lucille Clifton, Nikki Giovanni, Pat Parker e June Jordan, seguidas por autoras como Cheryl Clarke, Nikky Finney, Wanda Coleman e ainda as premiadíssimas Harryette Mullen, Rita Dove e Sonia Sanchez. Organizado por Lubi Prates, "Você lembrará seus nomes" conta com um time de tradutoras negras brasileiras renomadas, sendo a maior parte delas também poetas, além de pequenas biografias das autoras reunidas, contextualizando suas vidas e obras.

«No quería que te murieses, papi. Siempre decías que te nos aparecerías si te morías». Tras la muerte de su padre, la poeta Lucille Clifton comienza a desempolvar conversaciones, álbumes de fotos, recuerdos propios y ajenos para reconstruir la historia de su familia, los Sayles, descendientes de feroces amazonas guerreras, las mujeres dahomeyanas. Sus páginas invocan, entre otros, a mamá Ca''line, que con ocho años caminó desde Nueva Orleans hasta Virginia y acabó vendida como esclava; a Lucy, la primera mujer negra juzgada y ahorcada legalmente en Virginia por matar a un hombre blanco; a Genie, un huérfano salvaje de piel canela a los que todos tildaban de loco. Generaciones es un relato sobre esclavitud, pero también un luminoso canto de amor a los que nos preceden. El formidable don poético de la autora emerge aquí en prosa para brindarnos unas memorias de una belleza impactante y austera que ya son una pieza clave de la literatura afroamericana. En palabras de Toni Morrison, la obra de Clifton es «seductora porque tiene la sencillez de un átomo, es decir, tremendamente compleja, explosiva bajo su aparente quietud».

With a powerful introduction by Ross Gay and a moving afterword by Sidney Clifton, this special anniversary edition of The Book of Light offers new meditations and insights on one of the most beloved voices of the 20th century. Though The Book of Light opens with thirty-nine names for light, we soon learn the most meaningful name is Lucille—daughter, mother, proud Black woman. Known for her ability to convey multitudes in few words, Clifton writes into the shadows—her father’s violations, a Black neighborhood bombed, death, loss—all while illuminating the full spectrum of human emotion: grief and celebration, anger and joy, empowerment and so much grace. A meeting place of myth and the Divine, The Book of Light exists “between starshine and clay” as Clifton’s personas allow us to bear the world’s weight with Atlas and witness conversations between Lucifer and God. While names and dates mark this text as a social commentary responding to her time, it is haunting how easily this collection serves as a political palimpsest of today. We leave these poems inspired—Clifton shows us Superman is not our hero. Our hero is the Black female narrator who decides to live. And what a life she creates! “Won’t you celebrate with me?”

"A series of poems drawn from various collections published throughout the 40-year career of American poet Lucille Clifton"--

Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry "The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 may be the most important book of poetry to appear in years."--Publishers Weekly "All poetry readers will want to own this book; almost everything is in it."--Publishers Weekly "If you only read one poetry book in 2012, The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton ought to be it."—NPR "The ''Collected Clifton'' is a gift, not just for her fans...but for all of us."--The Washington Post "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 The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–2010 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 the book of days (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. On 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. "mother-tongue: to man-kind" (from the unpublished the book of days): all that I am asking is that you see me as something more than a common occurrence, more than a woman in her ordinary skin.

Finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry A landmark collection by National Book Award-winning poet Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 includes the four poetry collections that launched Clifton’s career—Good Times, Good News About the Earth, An Ordinary Woman, and Two-Headed Woman—as well as her haunting prose memoir, Generations. In honor of the 30th anniversary of Lucille Clifton''s Pulitzer Prize-nominated poetry collection and memoir, Good Woman is now available for the first time as a deluxe eBook edition. Enhanced with previously unpublished photographs from the Lucille Clifton Estate and a special foreword by Aracelis Girmay, this eBook is a must-have for longtime Clifton fans and newcomers alike.

A program from a James Madison University event honoring the memory of Lucille Clifton.

A new collection of empathetic and illuminating poems by one of America''s most-beloved poets.

A new collection by the National Book Award winner and one of America''s most beloved poets.

Everett Anderson wonders how he can help his friend Greg, who appears to be a victim of child abuse.

Overview: Winner of the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry, Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 is the culminating achievement of Lucille''s Clifton longstanding poetry career. This long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets writing today includes poems written during the past four years as well as generous selections from Lucille Clifton''s award-winning collections Next: New Poems, Quilting and The Terrible Stories. Clifton employs brilliantly honed language, stunning images and sharp rhythms to address the whole of human experience. Hers is a poetry that is passionate and wise, not afraid to confront our most salient issues.

"Mama, Mama. Tell us about when you was a girl . . . tell us one of them stories about the olden days. So begins this tender story, set in 1948, when Satchel Paige was in the majors, Ralph Bunche was at the U.N., and each evening Sooky and her family turned on the radio to listen to "Amos ''n'' Andy. Uncle Sunny, a veteran of the 92nd Division in World War II-it was his time, too. But mostly it was Sooky''s time, as she sat on the curb with her best friend Tallahassie May Scott in the dusky summer nights, waiting for the street lights to go on. That summer Sooky was 12 years old and got her first pair of wedgies, and sin broke all out in her best friend''s body because she wasn''t saved.

A collection of short poems for each of the days of the week, some expressing the point of view of students, others that of teachers.

In her tenth collection of verse, Clifton covers new terrain -- cancer and mastectomy, the life of King David, encounters with a vixen fox who is both shaman and muse. Employing brilliantly honed language, stunning images and sharp rhythms, hers is a poetry passionate and wise, not afraid to rage, whisper or spin into humor. the terrible stories was a National Book Award Finalist.