Research Catalog

Title

Voices : poems / by Lucille Clifton.

Author

Clifton, Lucille, 1936-2010

Publication

Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

63 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"In Voices, Clifton continues her celebrated aesthetic of writing poems for the disempowered and the underprivileged while finding humor and redemption among life's many hardships. This book also highlights Clifton's ability to write inventive dramatic monologues. Voices includes monologues spoken by animals, as well as by the food product spokespeople Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and the apparently nameless guy on the Cream of Wheat box. Spare muscular language combines with copious silences to create the trademark Clifton poem - one in which the speaker always understands that the joy, grief and loss others have experience stands in direct relationship with her own."--Jacket.

Series Statement

American poets continuum series ; no. 112

Uniform Title

American poets continuum series v. 112.

Subjects

• Poetry
• American poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Hearing -- "marley was dead to begin with" -- aunt jemima -- uncle ben -- cream of wheat -- horse prayer -- raccoon prayer -- dog's god -- albino -- mataoka -- witko -- what haunts him -- my grandfather's lullaby -- "you have been my tried and trusted friend" -- lu 1942 -- sorrows -- being heard -- this is what i know -- my father hasn't come back -- dad -- faith -- afterblues -- dead do dream -- "in 1844 explorers John Fremont and Kit Carson discovered Lake Tahoe" -- mirror -- 6/27/06 -- in amira's room -- for maude -- highway 89 toward tahoe -- meditation on ten oxherding pictures -- 1st picture: searching for the ox -- 2nd picture: seeing the traces -- 3rd picture: seeing the ox -- 4th picture: catching the ox -- 5th picture: herding the ox -- 6th picture: coming home on the ox's back -- 7th picture: the ox forgotten leaving the man alone -- 8th picture: the ox and the man both gone out of sight -- 9th picture: returning to the origin back to the source -- 10th picture: entering the city with bliss-bestowing hands -- end of meditation.

ISBN

• 9781934414118 (alk. paper)
• 9781934414125 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008037162

OCLC

216937038

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library