Description
This powerful collection of autobiographical poems explores family, identity, faith, womanhood, and the lived experience of being Black in America. Divided into three sections, it moves between intimate reflections, cultural memory, spiritual questioning, and the body’s resilience, revealing the many selves a woman may carry at once. Clifton’s language is spare, direct, and charged with warmth and raw energy, transforming personal experience into an affirmation of heritage, sexuality, strength, and self-definition. A vital work of feminist and African American poetry, the collection demonstrates her remarkable ability to make the deeply personal feel universal.
Available Editions
hardcover
University of Massachusetts Press
Published Jan 1, 1980
60 pages
ISBN: 9780870233098
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Details
First Published
1980
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Two-Headed Woman by Lucille Clifton.