A collection of poems written by Afro-American children celebrating what it means to be Black

An inspiring and enlightening collection of free verse, written by African-American children, ranging in age from six to eight years old, explores and interprets their feelings about their heritage.

A collection of poems that focus on the issues in a woman's life, with quilting as the central theme

Product Description: The Sarasota Review is an international anthology of poetry featuring established and upcoming poets, including Robert Creeley, Clayton Eshleman, Maude Meehan, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and others.

Poems celebrate the simple joys of a Black youth living in a city apartment

Poems celebrate the simple joys of a Black youth living in a city apartment

With parents who act crazy and with what she thinks is an ugly name, Sonora has difficulty coming to terms with herself and her family

Self-revealing poems discuss such topics as cancer, mastectomy, and the poet's animal self--the fox (view table of contents)

When a young girl finds a good luck penny and makes three wishes on it, she learns that friendship is her most valued possession.

A young black girl relates the adventures of the summer her Uncle Sunny died and her best friend broke out in sin because she wasn't saved.

Autobiographical poems depict the poet's feelings about her family, her life, her poetry, and her identity

In 2007, Lucille Clifton became the first African American woman to win the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, one of the most prestigious American poetry awards and one of the largest literary honors for work in the English language. Clifton has also won the National Book Award in poetry for Blessing the Boats (BOA Editions, 2000), and is the only author ever to have two collections, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir (BOA Editions, 1987) and Next: New Poems (BOA Editions, 1987), named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in one year.In Voices, Clifton continues her celebrated aesthetic of writing poems for the disempowered and the underprivileged while finding humor and redemption among life’s many hardships. This book also highlights Clifton’s ability to write inventive dramatic monologues. Voices includes monologues spoken by animals, as well as by the food product spokespeople Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and the apparently nameless guy on the Cream of Wheat box.“cream of wheat”sometimes at nightwe stroll the market aislesben and jemima and me theywalk in front humming this and thati lag behindtrying to remove my chef’s capwondering what ever pictured methen left me personlessrastusi read in an old paper that i was called rastusbut no mother evergave that to her sontoward dawn we head backto our shelvesour boxes ben and jemima and mewe pose and smile i simmerto myself what is my nameBOA Editions is thrilled to present the newest poetry collection by the one and only Lucille Clifton.