Lucille Clifton 
Good Woman 
Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

Finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry



A landmark collection by National Book Award-winning poet Lucille Clifton,
Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 includes the four poetry collections that launched Clifton’s career—
Good Times, Good News About the Earth, An Ordinary Woman, and
Two-Headed Woman—as well as her haunting prose memoir,
Generations.



In honor of the 30th anniversary of Lucille Clifton’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated poetry collection and memoir,
Good Woman is now available for the first time as a deluxe e Book edition. Enhanced with previously unpublished photographs from the Lucille Clifton Estate and a special foreword by Aracelis Girmay, this e Book is a must-have for longtime Clifton fans and newcomers alike.

About the author

Lucille Clifton (1936 – 2010) was an award winning poet, fiction writer, and author of children’s books. Her poetry collection, Blessing the Boats: New & Selected Poems 1988-2000 (BOA, 2000), won the National Book Award for poetry. In 1988 she became the only author to have two collections selected in the same year as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir (BOA, 1987), and Next: New Poems (BOA, 1987). In 1996, her collection The Terrible Stories (BOA, 1996), was a finalist for the National Book Award. Among her many other awards and accolades are the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Frost Medal, and an Emmy Award. In 2013, her posthumously published collection The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 (BOA, 2012), was awarded the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry.