The Book of Light
Author: Lucille Clifton
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Year: 1993
Pages: 76
ISBN: 978-1556590511
“Won’t you celebrate with me / what I have shaped into / a kind of life?” Lucille Clifton—one of the most important poets of the 21st century—published some of her most beloved poems in The Book of Light. The collection shines brightly into the shadows using Clifton’s formidable powers of revelation, her uncanny ability to locate the eternal in the midst of mundane experience, and to transform a vision into spontaneous song. Begging “the divine to speak,” Clifton discovers “the stillness that is god.” This book bears witness to a masterful poet’s awe and gratitude for a world of passionate discovery, compassionate anger, and devotion.
