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Notes for The Light That Came to Lucille Clifton






[1] Young, in Collected Poems, 741.
[2] Hull, 273.
[3] Hull, 274.
[4] Magloire, 317.
[5] Clifton Archives, Boxes 29-31.
[6] Lupton, 11.
[7] Collected Poems, 557.
[8] Collected Poems, 116.
[9] Collected Poems, 117.
[10] Jonah 2:10, King James Bible.
[11] Jonah 4:10-11, King James Bible
[12] Collected Poems, 118.
[13] Collected Poems, 119-120.
[14] Collected Poems, 122.
[15] Richard Foerster, Email to Kazim Ali, February 17, 2023.
[16] Zapf, 37.
[17] Collected Poems, 123.
[18] Collected Poems, 124.
[19] Collected Poems, 125.
[20] Collected Poems, 88.
[21]Magloire, 325.
[22] Collected Poems, 227.
[23] Collected Poems, 228-229.
[24] Collected Poems, 231.
[25] Collected Poems, 232.
[26] Collected Poems, 233.
[27] Collected Poems, 239.
[28] Collected Poems, 245.
[29] Collected Poems, 248.
[30] Collected Poems, 249.
[31] Collected Poems, 250.
[32] Collected Poems, 264.
[33] Collected Poems, 216.
[34] Collected Poems, 348.
[35] Collected Poems, 393.
[36] ibid.
[37] ibid.
[38] Collected Poems, 394.
[39] Collected Poems, 395.
[40] Collected Poems, 239.
[41] Collected Poems, 396.
[42] Collected Poems, 397.
[43] Collected Poems, 398.
[44] Collected Poems, 399.
[45] Collected Poems, 111.
[46] Collected Poems, 348.
[47] Collected Poems, 400.
[48] Collected Poems, 401.
[49] Collected Poems, 402.
[50] Collected Poems, 515.
[51] Collected Poems, 466.
[52] Collected Poems, 466-467.
[53] Collected Poems, 467.
[54] Collected Poems, 468.
[55] ibid.
[56] ibid.
[57] Collected Poems, 469.
[58] ibid.
[59] ibid.
[60] qtd. in Holladay, 188.
[61] Collected Poems, 470.
[62] Collected Poems, 527.
[63] Collected Poems, 528.
[64] Collected Poems, 530.
[65] Collected Poems, 532.
[66] Collected Poems, 535.
[67] Collected Poems, 537.
[68] Collected Poems, 538.
[69] Collected Poems, 539.