Description
In this powerful collection, Lucille Clifton transforms personal history, Black womanhood, family, violence, spirituality, and social injustice into poems of startling clarity and luminous force. Drawing on concrete imagery, mythic figures, persona, and surreal shifts in perspective, she confronts pain and oppression while reaching toward self-definition, healing, and transcendence. The poems are spare yet expansive, revealing hidden wisdom in the ordinary and giving voice to lives, memories, and histories too often silenced. A vital work by one of American poetry’s most influential voices, The Book of Light exemplifies Clifton’s gift for making compression feel profound and revelation feel immediate.
Available Editions
paperback
Copper Canyon Press
Published Jan 1, 1993
76 pages
ISBN: 1556590512
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Details
First Published
1993
Language
eng
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