Clifton writes about children killing children, a father abusing a daughter, white men killing black men, and other confounding forms of madness. New poems set this powerful volume in motion, and just like her much-praised earlier work, they address the tragic and the inexplicable.
Clifton's poems are lean, agile, and accurate, and there is beauty in their directness and efficiency, an element, too, of surprise. In 2006, she was a fellow at Dartmouth College.Ĭlifton received the Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement posthumously, from the Poetry Society of America.Birds and foxes appear in Clifton's poems, and it's easy to see why their quicksilver energy and grace, their bright knowingness and oneness with the earth, appeal to her: when she puts pen to paper, she is their sister. From 1995 to 1999, she was a visiting professor at Columbia University. She was Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St.
In 2000, she won the National Book Award for Poetry, for her work "Poems Seven".įrom 1985 to 1989, Clifton was a professor of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 1976, Generations: A Memoir was published. Clifton's foray into writing for children began with Some of the Days of Everett Anderson, published in 1970. She has since been nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and has been honored as Maryland's Poet Laureate. Good Times, her first book of poems, was published in 1969. She started Howard University on scholarship as a drama major but lost the scholarship two years later. She was the first person in her family to finish high school and attend college. Common topics in her poetry include the celebration of her African American heritage, and feminist themes, with particular emphasis on the female body. In 1976, Generation Lucille Clifton was an American poet, writer, and educator from New York.
Lucille Clifton was an American poet, writer, and educator from New York.
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