Description
In this acclaimed collection, poems are arranged like pieces of a quilt, each section—named for a traditional quilt design—joining individual experience to the larger patterns of history. Lucille Clifton centers the lives and voices of Black women while exploring birth, death, motherhood, faith, memory, oppression, and survival through biblical imagery and deeply personal reflection. Her spare, brilliantly honed language, sharp rhythms, and shifting perspectives create a powerful journey through inherited stories and newly imagined possibilities. Woven with anger, compassion, humor, sensuality, and hope, these poems reveal how private lives are shaped by—and can reshape—the histories that bind us.
Available Editions
paperback
BOA Editions, Ltd.
Published Jan 1, 1991
ISBN: 9780918526816
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Details
First Published
1991
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Quilting by Lucille Clifton.