Next, Lucille Clifton. BOA Editions, 1987.
Vintage softcover. Front cover has some scuffing at bottom edge. Some wear to corners. Inscription in black ink of flyleaf. Good condition.
Lucille Clifton often emphasized her working-class, Black, and woman-centered identity, writing poetry that foregrounded those lived experiences rather than universalizing or abstracting them. Clifton wrote aviyt menstruation, birth, abortion, menopause, and illness, This was radical in a literary culture that often excluded or sanitized women’s bodily realities.
"to my last period"
“well, girl, goodbye, / after thirty-eight years.”