Tug of war poetry - Me, myself and Irene?
Telegram poem - Buffalo war
As possible as yeast - first line of poem 'i am not done yet'. This poem compares with Emily D's work.
Can you imagine Luiclle's two headed woman? Will two headed shark give you a clue?
Confession. Conclude something in each stanza, let your last stanza be the collection of the above conclusions.
Sorrow song. Duty of a poet. Be the hundred voices.
Grange hall in White America
Pomo Shasta Esalen
History as baby
Her endings
1. For the mute
'too many languages
for one mortal tongue'
2. If our granchild be a girl
'the feast of women,
the feeding and
being fed'
I knew of a couple of famous poems by Lucille Clifton but never felt pushed to explore her work further. Looking at this collection, I gave up even before trying by the enormity of the book. But after being lured into other collections, I have realised how an authors whole body of work speaks in a definite voice. With most poets, we need guides. Not with Lucille Clifton, atleast to enjoy it in first reading. Direct to reader poetry.
The verse is so light (all simple worlds) that its hard to believe that one can write on weighty issues and still write on/from dreams, poetry for relatives and a letter and followups to Superman - not in the tone of 'Rescue me'. She taunts the forces be to topple her like those dolls that will never touch face with ground.
Repetition used to good effect of gaining familiarty and belongingness.
A title begins with ellipsis leading to God.
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