{"product_id":"voices-paperback-1","title":"Voices - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLucille Clifton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2007, Lucille Clifton became the first African American woman to win the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, one of the most prestigious American poetry awards and one of the largest literary honors for work in the English language. Clifton has also won the National Book Award in poetry for \u003ci\u003eBlessing the Boats \u003c\/i\u003e(BOA Editions, 2000), and is the only author ever to have two collections, \u003ci\u003eGood Woman: Poems and a Memoir \u003c\/i\u003e(BOA Editions, 1987) and \u003ci\u003eNext: New Poems \u003c\/i\u003e(BOA Editions, 1987), named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in one year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eVoices\u003c\/i\u003e, Clifton continues her celebrated aesthetic of writing poems for the disempowered and the underprivileged while finding humor and redemption among life's many hardships. This book also highlights Clifton's ability to write inventive dramatic monologues. \u003ci\u003eVoices \u003c\/i\u003eincludes monologues spoken by animals, as well as by the food product spokespeople Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and the apparently nameless guy on the Cream of Wheat box.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"cream of wheat\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003esometimes at night\u003cbr\u003ewe stroll the market aisles\u003cbr\u003eben and jemima and me they\u003cbr\u003ewalk in front humming this and that\u003cbr\u003ei lag behind\u003cbr\u003etrying to remove my chef's cap\u003cbr\u003ewondering what ever pictured me\u003cbr\u003ethen left me personless\u003cbr\u003erastus\u003cbr\u003ei read in an old paper that i was called rastus\u003cbr\u003ebut no mother ever\u003cbr\u003egave that to her son\u003cbr\u003etoward dawn we head back\u003cbr\u003eto our shelves\u003cbr\u003eour boxes ben and jemima and me\u003cbr\u003ewe pose and smile i simmer\u003cbr\u003eto myself what is my name\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBOA Editions is thrilled to present the newest poetry collection by the one and only Lucille Clifton.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucille Clifton (1936-2010) was the 2007 recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, as well as the 2010 Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America. Her final poetry collection, Voices, was published by BOA in September 2008. She was an award-winning poet, fiction writer, and author of children's books. Her poetry book, Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000, won the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry. Two of Clifton's BOA poetry collections, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980, and, Next: New Poems, were chosen as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in 1988, the only author ever to have done so, while Clifton's, The Terrible Stories, was a finalist for the 1996 National Book Award. Clifton received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts; an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences; the Shelley Memorial Prize; and the Charity Randall Citation. She served as a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College in Maryland. She was appointed a Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and elected as Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 1999.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50324256981229,"sku":"9781934414125","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/6kjGlxb4wh9781934414125.webp?v=1784826069","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/voices-paperback-1","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}