{"product_id":"clifton-lucille-voicespb","title":"Clifton, Lucille: Voices","description":"\u003cp\u003eBOA Editions, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: January 1, 2008\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBlessing the Boats\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(BOA Editions, 2000), and is the only author ever to have two collections, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGood Woman: Poems and a Memoir\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(BOA Editions, 1987) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNext: New Poems\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(BOA Editions, 1987), named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in one year.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eVoices\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eVoices\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817266065431,"sku":"9781934414125","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/images_cd56fec5-6eb9-448d-87c0-4fffe4e4fc9d.jpg?v=1768005272","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/clifton-lucille-voicespb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}