religion and politics, motherhood and family. They tell stories of racism, sexism and injustice. They tell of terrible things done to humans by humans.In one poem she calls it the extraordinary evil in ordinary men. In the poem "Cruelty," she takes a different look at violence.
Lucille Clifton reading "Cruelty"
from Voice of America: Lucille Clifton, 1936-2010: Award-Winning Poet Was First African-American Laureate of Maryland
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