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Lucille Clifton — song at midnight

Poetry Unbound

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Padre Gautuma: Poetry is a fairly solitary art while it can sometimes get shared in books or in readings. Lucille Clifton was on his list for this season and her work is extraordinary. She doesn't use many capital letters and her poems are always short and so distilled. They're beautiful and they know what they're doing, he says.

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