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02167aam a2200349 i 4500 001 C96F7BEA5D7411ECBD31EEBF27ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211215010111 008 210225s2021 nyua 000 0aeng 010 $a 2020058364 020 $a 1681375877 020 $a 9781681375878 035 $a (OCoLC)1240828131 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d IHY $d CUY $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 082 00 $a 811/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Clifton, Lucille, $d 1936-2010, $e author. 245 10 $a Generations : $b a memoir / $c by Lucille Clifton ; introduction by Tracy K. Smith. 264 1 $a New York : $b New York Review Books, $c [2021] 300 $a 87 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a New York Review books. Classics 520 $a "Buffalo. A father's funeral. Memory. In Generations, Louise Clifton's formidable poetic gift emerges in prose, giving us a memoir of stark and profound beauty. Her story focuses on the lives of the Sayles family: Caroline, "born among the Dahomey people in 1822," who walked north from New Orleans to Virginia in 1830 when she was eight years old; Lucy, the first black woman to be hanged in Virginia; and Gene, born with a withered arm, the son of a carpetbagger and the author's grandmother. Lucille Clifton tells us about the life of an African-American family through slavery and hard times and beyond, of the death of her father and grandmother, but also of all the life and love and triumph that came before and remains even now. Generations is a powerful work of determination and affirmation. "I look at my husband," Clifton writes, "and my children and I feel the Dahomey women gathering in my bones.""-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Clifton, Lucille, $d 1936-2010. 650 0 $a African American poets $v Biography. 650 0 $a Poets, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 700 1 $a Smith, Tracy K., $e writer of foreword. 830 0 $a New York Review Books classics. 941 $a 2 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010023955.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211215010738.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C96F7BEA5D7411ECBD31EEBF27ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search