Lucille Clifton

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.

The long-awaited tenth collection of poetry from the Shelley Memorial Prize-winning poet Lucille Clifton.

Twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, Clifton extends her already formidable powers of revelation with these new poems. Her song springs almost spontaneously from her imagination to stitch surreality with concrete imagery drawn from temporal reality, revealing an essential mystery and wisdom from within.

Two skeptical city boys set out to find spring which they've heard is "just around the corner."

Everett Anderson has a difficult time coming to terms with his grief after his father dies.

Finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry A landmark collection by one of America's major black poets, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 includes all of Lucille Clifton's first four published collections of extraordinary vibrant poetry—Good Times, Good News About the Earth, An Ordinary Woman, and Two-Headed Woman—as well as her haunting prose memoir, Generations.

Sonora laments the peculiarities of her life.

A young boy tells about Jacob, who, though older and mentally slower, helps him a lot and is his very best friend.

A small boy and his family anticipate the birth of their newest member.

As a small boy's mother considers remarriage, he considers the numbers one, two, and three--sometimes they're lonely, sometimes crowded, but sometimes just right.

Fearful that his father won't remember him after being away in the army, little Amifika looks for a place to hide.

Having eagerly anticipated the new neighbors, a boy is disappointed to get a whole family of girls.

Two skeptical city boys set out to find spring which they've heard is "just around the corner."

When her five-year-old brother decides to run away from home, Johnny is glad--at first.

A young black girl relates the adventures of the summer her Uncle Sunny died and her best friend broke out in sin because she wasn't saved.

Chronicles, in verse, the month-to-month activities of seven-year-old Everett Anderson throughout the seasons of the year.