Everett Anderson’s Year, by Lucille Clifton The Lucille Clifton Exhibition “She Sang So Sweet:” Lucille Clifton’s Children’s Literature is currently on display on the 2nd Floor of the Robert W. Woodruff Library. The exhibit is curated by Amy Hildreth Chen, Emory PhD student in English. The following is the essay which accompanies the exhibition, written…
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What Watches Me?: A Preview of the Upcoming Lucille Clifton Exhibit
by Amy Hildreth Chen, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Research Assistant to Kevin Young What “early in the morning/it shines its glassy eye”? The Window. What “sees me wander/ in and out/ and never stops to cry”? The Door. These riddles and more can be found in Lucille Clifton‘s first children’s book, What…
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