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Lucille Clifton

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  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    The University of Massachusetts Press’ Juniper Prize for poetry, a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Poet Laureate of the State of Maryland.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Her other teaching experiences have included appointments as Elliston Poet at the University of Cincinnati, Jenny Moore Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at George Washington University, and Woodrow Wilson Scholar at Fisk University, Trinity College and other universities. She currently teaches at the University of California at Santa Cruz
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    6 it is late
    it is late
    in white america.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    chorus: lucille
    something is growing in the strong man.
    it is blooming, they say, but not a flower.
    he has planted so much in me. so much.
    i am not willing, gardener, to give you up to this.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    her name is the name i would have given
    the daughter i would have liked to have had.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    my hair is pain.
    my mouth is a cave of cries.
    my room is filled with white coats
    shaped like God.
    they are moving their fingers along
    their stethoscopes.
    they are testing their chemical faith.
    chemicals chemicals oh mother mary
    where is your living child?
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    repeat it, she will
    follow you, she will
    do whatever you say.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    here is the magic word:
    cancer.
    cancer.
    repeat it, she will
    become her own ghost.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    the death of joanne c.
    11/30/82
    aged 21
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    the death of thelma sayles
    2/13/59
    age 44
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