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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton was born in Depew, New York, in 1936. Her books of poetry include Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 (BOA Editions, 2000), which won the National...
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FURTHER READING
Poems about the Body
A Hand
by Jane Hirshfield
Bodyweight
by Matthew Schwartz
Danse Russe
by William Carlos Williams
I Sing the Body Electric
by Walt Whitman
Black History
A Negro Love Song
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
A Song for Many Movements
by Audre Lorde
American History
by Michael S. Harper
Believing in Iron
by Yusef Komunyakaa
Black Woman
by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Derrick Poem (The Lost World)
by Terrance Hayes
Dreams
by Langston Hughes
Flounder
by Natasha Trethewey
For the Confederate Dead
by Kevin Young
Frederick Douglass
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Harriet Tubman
by Eloise Greenfield
I'm A Fool To Love You
by Cornelius Eady
La Vie C'est La Vie
by Jessie Redmon Fauset
Lift Every Voice and Sing
by James Weldon Johnson
Quatrains
by Gwendolyn Bennett
Reunion 2005
by Rita Dove
Song of the Son
by Jean Toomer
Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
by Langston Hughes
The White House
by Claude McKay
We Real Cool
by Gwendolyn Brooks
We Wear the Mask
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Poems about the Body
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