Wild blessings
the poetry of Lucille Clifton
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Author
Publication
2004 - Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Language
English
Word Count
56,000 words, Guess
Page Count
224 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3290588M
- ISBN-100807129879
- OCLC Control Number54806320
- OCLC Control Numberwildblessingspoe0000holl
- Library of Congress Control Number2004005642
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- Goodreads454434
- LibraryThing6848828
Classifications
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3553.L45 Z68 2004
Description
"In Wild Blessings, Hilary Holladay offers the first full-length study of Lucille Clifton's poetry, drawing on a broad knowledge of the American poetic tradition and African American poetry in particular. Holladay places Clifton's poems in multiple contexts - personal, political, and literary - as she explicates major themes and analyzes specific works: Clifton's poems about womanhood, a central concern throughout her career; her fertility poems, which are compared with Sylvia Plath's poems on the same subject; her relation to the Black Arts Movement and to other black female poets, such as Gwendolyn Brooks and Sonia Sanchez; her biblical poems; her elegies; and her poignant family history, Generations, an extended prose poem. This book concludes with a wide-ranging interview with Clifton, in which she discusses her poetry and private life."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Southern literary studies
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