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Terrible Stories by Lucille Clifton (1996, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBoa Editions, The Limited

ISBN-101880238373

ISBN-139781880238370

eBay Product ID (ePID)755293

Product Key Features

Book TitleTerrible Stories

Number of Pages70 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1996

TopicAmerican / African American, General

GenrePoetry

AuthorLucille Clifton

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.2 in

Item Weight4.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN96-084152

TitleLeadingThe

ReviewsFrom Publishers Weekly In a long career, Clifton has earned that rare combination of critical acclaim (including two Pulitzer Prize nominations) and a wide popular audience. Heir to Langston Hughes's deceptively ordinary voice, Clifton crafts brief lines and accessible metaphors into a profound and often humorous commentary on the rich survival skills of women, family love and contemporary American?particularly African American?life. Her cogent 10th collection charts a treacherous terrain of personal and historic tragedy. She confronts breast cancer with an impressive delicacy, as in "scar": "I will call you/ ribbon of hunger/ and desire/ empty pocket flap/ edge of before and after.// and you/ what will you call me?" A poetic sequence called "A Term in Memphis" penetrates Southern history, allowing the revelations of honest anger to operate as antidote?not comfort?for bigotry. Often drawn to religious themes, Clifton ambitiously explores contradictions of the Bible's King David, a poet and a soldier who "stands in the tents of history/ bloody skull in one hand, harp in the other...." With her sustaining ability to spin pain into beauty, Clifton redeems the human spirit from its dark moments. She is among our most trustworthy and gifted poets.

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal811/.54

SynopsisIn her tenth collection of verse, Clifton covers new terrain -- cancer and mastectomy, the life of King David, encounters with a vixen fox who is both shaman and muse. Employing brilliantly honed language, stunning images and sharp rhythms, hers is a poetry passionate and wise, not afraid to rage, whisper or spin into humor. the terrible stories was a National Book Award Finalist., The long-awaited tenth collection of poetry from the Shelley Memorial Prize-winning poet Lucille Clifton.

LC Classification NumberPS3553.L45T47 1996