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Feb. 13th, 2010 10:41 pmI am immensely sad to learn that Lucille Clifton has passed away at age 78.
As a woman of size who was once a girl of size? Hearing her poems in praise of female bodies without the rhetoric of daintiness and slimmness and slightness. Such as "Homage to My Hips" and "Poem in praise of menstruation" were a comfort to me.
As a woman of size who was once a girl of size? Hearing her poems in praise of female bodies without the rhetoric of daintiness and slimmness and slightness. Such as "Homage to My Hips" and "Poem in praise of menstruation" were a comfort to me.
