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the lost womenI need to know their namesthose women I would have walked with,jauntily the way men go...

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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish t...

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You might as well answer the door, my child,the truth is furiously knocking.

Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

won't you celebrate with mewhat i have shaped intoa kind of life? i had no model.born in babylonboth...

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The literature of America should reflect the children of America.

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Lucille Clifton

Poet

Born: 1936-06-27

Died: 2010-02-13

Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010) was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Clifton was nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.More