Description
Lucille Clifton’s acclaimed debut poetry collection draws on the intimate realities of family life, motherhood, and African-American urban experience. In spare, unadorned language, these poems transform everyday moments—marked by work, love, struggle, and endurance—into sharply observed reflections on identity and community. Both personal and socially attentive, the collection reveals Clifton’s early gift for finding strength, humor, and dignity within ordinary lives. Named one of the New York Times’ ten best books of 1969, it introduced a distinctive poetic voice of remarkable clarity and emotional force.
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First Published
1969
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Good Times by Lucille Clifton.