by Lucille Clifton
American Poets Continuum
Series
"Lucille Clifton is one of the four or five most authentic
and profound living American poets. Her ear is fine-tuned to
the subtle relationship of verbal music to image and metaphor;
and her imagination avails itself of that osmosis by which the
mythic is realized in the quotidian, the humble and everyday
is illuminated by the spiritual."
-- Denise Levertov
february
13, 1980
twenty-one
years of my life you have been
the
lost color in my eye. my secret blindness,
all
my seeings turned grey with your going.
mother,
i have worn your name like a shield.
it
has torn but protected me all these years,
now
even your absence comes of age.
i put
on a dress called woman for this day
but
i am not grown away from you
whatever
i say.
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Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-918526-59-5
Price: $18.50
Publishing Date: January 1987
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