Background
Clifton, Lucille Thelma was born on June 27, 1936 in Depew, New York, United States. Daughter of Samuel Louis and Thelma (Moore) Sayles.
( Finalist, 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. "Clifton myth...)
Finalist, 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. "Clifton mythologizes herself: that is, she illuminated her surroundings and history from within in a way that casts light on much beyond."--The Women's Review of Books
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( Brilliantly honed language, sharp rhythms and striking ...)
Brilliantly honed language, sharp rhythms and striking syntax empower Lucille Clifton's personal and artistic odyssey. Hers is poetry of birth, death, children, community, history, sexuality and spirituality, and she addresses these themes with passion, humor, anger and spiritual awe.
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Buffalo. A father's funeral. Memory. And Luclle Clifton merges her formidable weapons of poetry with the powerr of her prose, giving us a memoir of stark and profound beauty. Her story focuses on the lives of Caroline, "born among the Dahomey people in 1822," who walked North from New Orleans to Virginia in 1830 when she was eight years old; Lucy, the first black woman to be hanged in Virginia; and Gene, born with a withered arm, the son of a Yankee carpetbagger and the author's grandmother. Lucille Clifton tells us about the death of her father and mother and all that life and love and triumph that came before and remains even now. "I look at my husband," writes Ms. Clifton, "and our six children and I feel the Dahomey women gathering in my bones." Ms. Clifton's poetry has been called "lean, hard and graceful." But there are no accurate adjectives to describe her prose. Let's just say perfect.
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Clifton, Lucille Thelma was born on June 27, 1936 in Depew, New York, United States. Daughter of Samuel Louis and Thelma (Moore) Sayles.
Student, Howard University, 1955. Student, Fredonia State Teachers College, New York, 1955. DL (honorary), Dartmouth College, 2005.
Professor literature & creative writing University California, Santa Cruz, 1985-1990. District professor humanities St. Mary's College Maryland, 1990—2010, Hilda C. Landers endowed chair in liberal arts, 2000—2010. Visiting professor Columbia University, 1995—1999.
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(Sonora laments the peculiarities of her life.)
( Finalist, 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. "Clifton myth...)
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Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Authors League, Author Guild, P.E.N., Academy American Poets (chancellor), Poetry Society of America (board directors, Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest award 1999).
Married Fred James Clifton, May 10, 1958 (deceased November 1984). Children: Sidney, Fredrica (deceased 2000), Channing (deceased 2004), Gillian, Graham, Alexia.