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American oral and oratorical traditions with her use of black vernacular.
American oral and oratorical traditions with her use of black vernacular. Clifton served as Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1979 to 1982. From The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Third Edition, Volume 2. Goodbye, received the Coretta Scott King Award in 1984. Her writing for children is honest and lacks condescension. The optimism that shapes Clifton's poetry is nourished by her deep spiritual beliefs. Clifton's prose maintains a familial and cultural tradition of storytelling.
