Divining Poets: Clifton
A Quotable Deck from Turtle Point Press
Smith is an American poet and educator who served two terms as Poet Laureate of the United States. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume, Life on Mars. This year, she is the editor of The Best American Poetry 2021, which hits shelves just a few weeks before our release.
This deck would make an excellent literary gift item, as it contains the wisdom of Lucille Clifton selected by a beloved, well-connected, award-winning author whose career spans decades.
This item is nonreturnable.
Lucille Clifton (1936-2010), discovered by Langston Hughes, is renowned for writing lean and profound lines that explore strength over struggle, family life, and the Black experience. She was the first poet to have two of her collections selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in the same year. She also received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and served as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In 2000, she won the National Book Award.
by Yi Lei. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Smith lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
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