byLucille
Clifton
American
Poets Continuum Series
Lucille Clifton understands
that other people's joy, grief, and loss stand in direct relationship
with her own. Amid turns sad, exuberant and angry, her voice
has always been one of great empathy and wisdom -- as she says,
"the only mercy is memory." In Mercy,
her eleventh book of poetry, the National Book Award-winner speaks
to the tenuous relationship between mothers and daughters, the
open wounds of terrorism and racial prejudice, and the redemptive
gifts of faith and art.
surely
i am able to write poems
surely
i am able to write poems
celebrating
grass and how the blue
in
the sky can flow green or red
and
the waters lean against the
chesapeake
shore like a familiar
poems
about nature and landscape
surely
but whenever i begin
"the
trees wave their knotted branches
and..."
why
is
there under that poem always
an
other poem?
©BOA
Editions, Ltd 2004
Available editions:
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ISBN: 1-929918-54-2
Price: $22.00
Publishing Date: August 2004
Paperback
ISBN: 1-929918-55-0
Price: $14.95
Publishing Date: August 2004
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Mercy
was made possible, in part, by generous donations from the
Mary S. Mulligan Charitable Trust and J. Christine Wilson and
Mary K. Collins.
BOA
Editions would also like to thank the following individuals for
their support of Mercy:
Nelson
Blish
Dr.
& Mrs. Gary H. Conners
Carole
Cooper & Howard Haims
Burch
& Louise Craig
Ronald
& Susan Dow
Suzanne
& Peter Durant
Suressa
Forbes
Dr.
Henry & Beverly French
Judy
& Dane Gordon
Marge
& Don Grinols
Kip
& Deb Hale
Peter
& Robin Hursh
Robert
& Willy Hursh
Linda
Kaplan
Archie
& Pat Kutz
Lester
& Deborah Lennon
Rosemary
& Lew Lloyd
John
& Lillian Maguire
David
& Marianne Oliveiri
Boo
Poulin
Deborah
Ronnen
Deborah
D. Ruth
Jane
Schuster
Robert
Shea
Allen
& Suzy Spencer
Celia
Jane Stuart-Powles
George
Wallace
Ellen
P. Wallack
Thomas
R. Ward
Pat
& Michael Wilder
Glenn
& Helen William
Geraldine
Zetzel
