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The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 continues to receive high acclaim and praise, having been just recently chosen for the Eleventh's Stack's Best Poetry Books of 2012: a Baker's Dozen! "Lucille Clifton, who passed away in 2010, finally gets her due with this voluminous collection of her life’s work.  A leading poet of her generation, her poetry addresses issues such as her African American heritage and women’s rights. She was a master of concision, straightforward, and direct, as few modern poets are." See Eleventh Stack's full "Baker's Dozen" list of Best Poetry Books of 2012. Purchase your copy of The Collected Poems of...

Since the start of the new year, Coldfront magazine has been counting down the Top Forty Poetry Books of 2012, and just last week announced Craig Morgan Teicher's To Keep Love Blurry (BOA, 2012) is in the magazine's Top Ten, placed at an impressive number six. "With To Keep Love Blurry, we open a world of poems that ask obsessive questions of choice and consequence. These are poems of an interior that reimagines the past, pays tribute to predecessors, and above all, values frankness above artifice...The poems are severe in their honesty, which makes them riveting." On an interesting note, Teicher's wife,...

[caption id="attachment_2162" align="alignleft" width="200"] Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths[/caption] A night of poetry and music to celebrate the life of the late poet Lucille Clifton, and the recent publication of The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010, is set for Thursday, February 21, at CUNY’s Proshansky Auditorium in New York City. Admission is free and open to the public. The celebration, to begin at 7:00PM, will include an introduction by co-editors of Clifton’s Collected Poems, Kevin Young and Michael S. Glaser, followed by poetry readings from 13 world-class poets: Sherman Alexie, Tina Chang, Toi Derricotte, Michael Dickman, Timothy Donnelly, Cornelius Eady, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Nick Flynn,...

At it again, The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 is on Ms. Magazine's list of 2012's Best Books of Poetry by Women! "Just two years after her death, this 769-page collection is a welcome anthology, representative of more than 40 years of Clifton’s writing. If you’re not yet familiar with Clifton’s incredible mix of the familial and the political, this is one book you need right now." See Ms. Magazine's full list, here. Don't have your copy of The Collected Poems of  Lucille Clifton 1965-2010, yet? Get it here.

Double Room Journal is calling Marosa di Giorgio a poet with a “quiet, lyrical voice” in her new 2012 collection Diadem: Selected Poems, with English translations from the Spanish by Adam Giannelli. According to the review, the collection is full of “earthy celebrations of pastoral Uruguay and semi-surreal moments of magical realism” within a “bucolic landscape that evokes both the nostalgic innocence of childhood and the disturbing thresholds of sexual awareness.” di Giorgio's poems, compared with the works of Kafka, Pizarnik, and Cortázar, “possess the sort of allegorical dimensions one finds in myth and fable.” Purchase a copy of Diadem,...