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Unsparing Truths: On Lucille Clifton
By Jordan Davis — 2013
Clifton is clear about the psychic cost of what needs to be done to live better, or to live well at all, such as clearing out of the way unwanted living things. She herself had seen the matter from both sides. - Jordan Davis
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