Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton: 86.00 (American Poets Continuum (Hardcover)) - Hardcover

Sexton, Linda Gray

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1929918542 ISBN 13: 9781929918546

Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited, 2004

Synopsis

Lucille Clifton's poetry carries her deep concerns for the world's children, the stratification of American society, those people lost or forgotten amid the crushing race of Western materialism and technology. In turns sad, troubled and angry, her voice has always been one of great empathy, knowing, as she says, "the only mercy is memory." In this, her 12th book of poetry, the National Book Award-winner speaks to the tenuous relationship between mothers and daughters, the debilitating power of cancer, the open wound of racial prejudice, the redemptive gift of story-telling. "September Song," a sequence of seven poems, featured on National Public Radio, presents a modern-day Orpheus who, through her grief, attempts to heart-intelligently respond to the events of September 11th. The last sequence of poems-a tightly-woven fabric of caveats and prayers-was initially written in the 1970s, then revised and reshaped in the last few years. Lucille Clifton is an award-winning...

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About the Author:

Lucille Clifton won the 2007 Ruth Lilly Poetry Award. Her book, Blessing the Boats (BOA Editions), won the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry. Two of Clifton's BOA poetry collections were chosen as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. Clifton's awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and an Emmy Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1929918542
• ISBN 13: 9781929918546
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 79