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Good Woman

Poems and a Memoir, 1969-1980

by Lucille Clifton

PoetryAmerican poetryAfrican AmericansWomen authorsSOCIAL SCIENCEAfrican American StudiesAmericanAfrican American women

Finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry A landmark collection by one of America's major black poets, *Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980* includes all of Lucille Clifton's first four published collections of extraordinary vibrant poetry—*Good Times*, *Good News About the Earth*, *An Ordinary Woman*, and *Two-Headed Woman*—as well as her haunting prose memoir, *Generations*.

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