Quilting

Brilliantly honed language, sharp rhythms and striking syntax empower Lucille Clifton's personal and artistic odyssey. Hers is poetry of birth, death, children, community, history, sexuality and spirituality, and she addresses these themes with passion, humor, anger and spiritual awe.   Praise for Quilting "Clifton mythologizes herself: that is, she illuminates her surroundings and history from within in a way that casts light on much beyond." —Marilyn Hacker, The Women's Review of Books eve's version smooth talker slides into my dreams and fills them with apple apple snug as my breast in the palm of my hand apple sleek apple sweet and bright in my mouth it is your own lush self you hunger for he whispers    lucifer honey-tongue. © BOA Editions, Ltd 1991 Available editions: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paperback ISBN: 0-918526-81-7 Publishing Date: January 1991