Lucille Clifton (1936-2010)

BUFFALO, USA - E' ora nell'aldilà Lucille Clifton, poetessa negro-americana. Vi riportiamo una sua poesia, quella che esprime al meglio uno dei temi a lei più cari: Poem in praise of menstruation If there is a river more beautiful than this bright as the blood red edge of the moon if there is a river more faithful than this returning each month to the same delta if there is a river braver than this coming and coming in a surge of passion, of pain if there is a river more ancient than this daughter of eve mother of cain and of abel if there is in the universe such a river if there is some where water more powerful than this wild water pray that it flows also through animals beautiful and faithful and ancient and female and brave link