![]() ![]() ![]() At the time of her death, Lucille Clifton was one of the most beloved and revered poets in America. ![]() This was the lens, first and foremost, by which she understood the world around her, and it was important to her that readers respected and appreciated the unique branch from which she sang her life, whether it was the blessedness of her body (“homage to my hips” and “song at midnight”) or the travesty of violence writ large all over American history (“slaveships” and “jasper texas 1998”). Like most Americans, she was very proud of her heritage and, particularly, her African ancestry. Lucille Clifton (1936–2010), born in a western New York railroad town just outside Buffalo, made her poetry out of the everyday and extraordinary existence of being a black woman. ![]()
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