Lucille Clifton
Generations. A Memoir, 1976
NY: Random House
First edition. Inscribed by Clifton to the poet Michael Harper.
2499
Octavo. (viii), 79, (4)pp. Clifton's memoir is a seminal treatment of Black women's experiences in America, suitably and poignantly beginning with epigraphs drawn from the Book of Job and freed...
Octavo. (viii), 79, (4)pp. Clifton's memoir is a seminal treatment of Black women's experiences in America, suitably and poignantly beginning with epigraphs drawn from the Book of Job and freed slave Caroline Donald Sale, and closing with one from Walt Whitman. Bound in quarter brown cloth with tan paper over boards, there with Clifton's monogram in brown. Brush of sunning to lower corner, else fine in near fine dust wrapper showing shallowest chips to head and tear at rear panel.
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