Lucille Clifton

Lucille Clifton

Thelma Lucille Sayles (Búfalo (Nueva York), 27 de junio de 1936 - 13 de febrero de 2010),[1] conocida como Lucille Clifton, fue una poeta y educadora estadounidense. Como escritora, prestó especial atención a temas feministas como el cuerpo de la mujer y al tema de su herencia afroamericana.

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Biografía

Lucille creció en Depew, en Nueva York y terminó la secundaria en el Fosdick-Masten Park High School. Estudió en la Universidad Howard entre 1953 y 1955 y se graduó por la State University of New York at Fredonia (cerca de Búfalo) en 1955. En 1958 se casó con Fred James Clifton.

Obras

Poesía

  • Good Times (Random House, New York, 1969)
  • Good News About the Earth (Random House, New York, 1972)
  • An Ordinary Woman (Random House, New York, 1974)
  • Two-Headed Woman (University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1980)
  • Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir: 1969–1980 (BOA Editions, Brockport, 1987)
  • Next: New Poems (BOA Editions, Ltd., Brockport, 1987)
  • Ten Oxherding Pictures (Moving Parts Press, Santa Cruz, 1988).
  • Quilting: Poems 1987–1990 (BOA Editions, Ltd., Brockport, 1991)
  • The Book of Light (Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, 1993)
  • The Terrible Stories (BOA Editions, Brockport, 1996)
  • Blessing The Boats: New and Collected Poems 1988–2000 (BOA Editions, Rochester, 2000)
  • Mercy (BOA Editions, Rochester, 2004)
  • Voices (BOA Editions, Rochester, 2008)

No ficción

  • Generations: A Memoir (Random House, New York, 1976)

Notas

  1. Rey, Jay (13 de febrero de 2010). «Clifton, honored poet from Buffalo, dies». The Buffalo News. Consultado el 14 de febrero de 2010.

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