Lucille Clifton | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis & critique of Lucille Clifton.

Lucille Clifton | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis & critique of Lucille Clifton.
This section contains 1,035 words
(approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Critical Essay by Jean Anaporte-Easton

SOURCE: "Healing Our Wounds: The Direction of Difference in the Poetry of Lucille Clifton and Judith Johnson," in Mid-American Review, Vol. XIV, No. 2, 1994, pp. 78-82.

In the essay below, Anaporte-Easton cites Clifton's thematic healing of the disparity between the mind, spirit, and the body.

The distinctive quality of Clifton's voice comes from her ability to ground her art in an imagery of the body and physical reality. Through the Mary poems, Clifton reinscribes Christianity with the sacred wisdom of women's physical and emotional experience just as she expands the imagery of Judaism and Christianity to suggest African-American as well as white culture. Prior to the Mary poems in a series called some jesus, Clifton transposes details of Christian mythology associated with white culture into the physical terms of Black culture: Collard greens, beets, and turnips replace palm leaves on the path of the triumphal entry; Moses is "an...

(read more)

This section contains 1,035 words
(approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Critical Essay by Jean Anaporte-Easton
Copyrights
Gale
Critical Essay by Jean Anaporte-Easton from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.