A review by cocoaqueenk
Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 by Lucille Clifton

5.0

An underrated poet, Clifton isn’t one of the “literary greats” whose names show up on canonical lists. But she should be. In the forward, Aracelis Girmay says:

“No one writes like Lucille Clifton, and yet, if it were possible to open a voice, like a suitcase, to see what it carries inside it, I believe that inside the voices of many of our beloved contemporary writers are the poems of Lucille Clifton.”

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