Lucille Clifton and Sonia Sanchez: A conversation

The Between Story : Physical and Psychic Trauma in the Poetry of Sonia Sanchez and Lucille Clifton

“…Clifton affirms: "Sonia and I are such good friends because we don't write alike. Particularly when I was first writing, African American writers didn't particularly … validate what I did because it did not seem to be political, forgetting what Gwendolyn Brooks said -that when she walked out of her door, it was a political decision" (Davis, 2002(Davis, : 1066. Because of this misconception about Clifton's work there is a lack of scholarship that "addresses [Clifton's] treatment of gender, race, and ethnicity within social and cultural frameworks" (Cucinella, 2002: 78).…”