{"id":2815,"date":"2012-12-23T22:40:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T03:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booktweeting.com\/blog\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2012-12-23T22:40:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T03:40:35","slug":"the-collected-poems-of-lucille-clifton-1965-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booktweeting.com\/blog\/?p=2815","title":{"rendered":"THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LUCILLE CLIFTON, 1965-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t review poetry here, but I cannot help taking a minute to rave about the new collection of poems by the late, great Lucille Clifton.\u00a0 The poems are beautifully curated, the book design is clear and readable, and the foreword by Toni Morrison was touching in its recognition of Clifton&#8217;s gifts.\u00a0 Do think about buying this if you&#8217;re a poetry fan&#8212;or maybe even if you aren&#8217;t!\u00a0 Clifton was a strong and distinctive voice, and the power of her work cannot be denied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t review poetry here, but I cannot help taking a minute to rave about the new collection of poems by the late, great Lucille Clifton.\u00a0 The poems are beautifully curated, the book design is clear and readable, and the foreword by Toni Morrison was touching in its recognition of Clifton&#8217;s gifts.\u00a0 Do think about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[22,23,90,85],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extras","tag-african-american-writers","tag-black-writers","tag-poetry","tag-womens-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booktweeting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booktweeting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booktweeting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booktweeting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booktweeting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/booktweeting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2816,"href":"https:\/\/booktweeting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions\/2816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booktweeting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booktweeting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booktweeting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}