Most Popular Books by Lucille Clifton

"Mama, Mama. Tell us about when you was a girl . . . tell us one of them stories about the olden days. So begins this tender story, set in 1948, when Satchel Paige was in the majors, Ralph Bunche was at the U.N., and each evening Sooky and her family turned on the radio to listen to "Amos 'n' Andy. Uncle Sunny, a veteran of the 92nd Division in World War II-it was his time, too. But mostly it was Sooky's time, as she sat on the curb with her best friend Tallahassie May Scott in the dusky summer nights, waiting for the street lights to go on. That summer Sooky was 12 years old and got her first pair of wedgies, and sin broke all out in her best friend's body because she wasn't saved.

Esta antologia oferece um panorama inédito da poesia negra feita por mulheres nos Estados Unidos no século XX, reunindo dezenove poetas com uma amostra significativa de suas produções e linguagens. Ao lado de nomes já reverenciados no Brasil, como Audre Lorde, Maya Angelou, bell hooks e Alice Walker, estão poetas ainda pouco conhecidas que constituem o canône da literatura negra mundial. Caso das pioneiras Angelina Weld Grimké, Gwendolyn Bennett e Gwendolyn Brooks, e representantes da poesia falada e engajada, como Jayne Cortez e Amina Baraka, que despontaram nos anos 1960 e 1970. Período de grande efervescência da cultura negra nos Estados Unidos, as décadas do Black Arts Movement e do Black Power coincidem, não por acaso, com as primeiras publicações das sólidas carreiras de grande parte dessas poetas, como Lucille Clifton, Nikki Giovanni, Pat Parker e June Jordan, seguidas por autoras como Cheryl Clarke, Nikky Finney, Wanda Coleman e ainda as premiadíssimas Harryette Mullen, Rita Dove e Sonia Sanchez. Organizado por Lubi Prates, "Você lembrará seus nomes" conta com um time de tradutoras negras brasileiras renomadas, sendo a maior parte delas também poetas, além de pequenas biografias das autoras reunidas, contextualizando suas vidas e obras.

"In twelve spare, single-stanza verses ... Clifton effectively uses the passage of time to propel and unite her themes. Grifalconi’s bold and sensitive woodcuts reinforce Everett’s moods of joy, hope, and wonder." --School Library Journal, starred review

A little black boy worries about moving to a new place, having a new teacher, and many other things but his older sister allays his fears.

A program from a James Madison University event honoring the memory of Lucille Clifton.

Fearful that his father won't remember him after being away in the army, little Amifika looks for a place to hide.

A young boy tells about Jacob, who, though older and mentally slower, helps him a lot and is his very best friend.

A perceptive story of how a young boy adjusts to the new man in his single mother's life. ""One can be lonely and One can be fun, and""Two can be awful or perfect for some, and""Three can be crowded or can be just right or""even too many, you have to decide."" One can have fun alone, thinks Everett Anderson. And when it's just Everett and his mama-well, two is fine, too. But three . . . Everett tries to understand why Mama and Mr. Perry like to spend so much time together, although it's hard, at first.

A collection of short poems for each of the days of the week, some expressing the point of view of students, others that of teachers.

Advertising for L. Clifton's Ten oxherding pictures "inspired by a series of allegorical pictures attributed to the 12th century Chinese Zen master Kaku-an shi-en"; with background information on the advertised edition, short biography of author, and history of book's creation.