GENERATIONS Girls go blind

Girls go blind

and the future when approached from an imagined position after ending—after after—charting a path from an unreal “before” to modernity

At loose ends

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GENERATIONS Girls go blindFrom the press: A moving family biography in which the poet traces her family history back through Jim Crow, the slave trade, and all the way to the women of the Dahomey people in West Africa. Buffalo, New York. A fathers funeral. Memory. In Generations, Lucille Cliftons formidable poetic gift emerges in prose, giving us a memoir of stark and profound beauty. Her story focuses on the lives of the Sayles family: Caroline, born among the Dahomey people