Divining Poets: Clifton - A Quotable Deck from Turtle Point Press

About the author

Lucille Clifton (1936-2010), discovered by Langston Hughes, is renowned for writing lean and profound lines that explore strength over struggle, family life, and the Black experience. She was the first poet to have two of her collections selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in the same year. She also received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and served as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In 2000, she won the National Book Award.

Tracy K. Smith served two terms as U.S. Poet Laureate. The author of four poetry collections, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Life on Mars and the memoir Ordinary Light, she is also the editor of an anthology, American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time, and cotranslator (with Changtai Bi) of My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: SelectedPoems by Yi Lei. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Smith lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

 

 

Product details

• Authors: Lucille Clifton
• Assisted by: David Trinidad (Editor), David Trinidad (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Turtle Point Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Cards
• Released: 09.11.2021
• EAN: 9781933527499
• ISBN: 978-1-933527-49-9
• No. of pages: 78
• Dimensions: 101 mm x 137 mm x 39 mm
• Weight: 410 g
• Series: Divining Poets: A Quotable Deck from Turtle Point Press
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Life interpretation; Social & cultural history, POETRY / Women Authors, POETRY / American / African American, Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practice, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / General, Modern & contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), International Women‘s Day, Relating to African American / Black American people