![]() She confronts breast cancer with an impressive delicacy, as in ""scar"": ""I will call you/ ribbon of hunger/ and desire/ empty pocket flap/ edge of before and after.// and you/ what will you call me?"" A poetic sequence called ""A Term in Memphis"" penetrates Southern history, allowing the revelations of honest anger to operate as antidote-not comfort-for bigotry. Her cogent 10th collection charts a treacherous terrain of personal and historic tragedy. Heir to Langston Hughes's deceptively ordinary voice, Clifton crafts brief lines and accessible metaphors into a profound and often humorous commentary on the rich survival skills of women, family love and contemporary American-particularly African American-life. ![]() In a long career, Clifton has earned that rare combination of critical acclaim (including two Pulitzer Prize nominations) and a wide popular audience. ![]()
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