Finalist, 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. "Lucille Clifton is one of the four or five most authentic and profound living American poets."—Denise Levertov
A landmark collection by one of America's major black poets, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 includes all of Lucille Clifton's four previously published books of extraordinarily vibrant poetry - Good Times, Good News About the Earth, An Ordinary Woman and Two-Headed Woman - as well as her haunting prose memoir, Generations.