Poetry collections
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Good Times, New York: Random House, 1969
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Good News About the Earth, New York: Random House, 1972
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An Ordinary Woman, New York: Random House, 1974)
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Two-Headed Woman, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1980
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Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir: 1969–1980, Brockport: BOA Editions, 1987 — finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize[21]
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Next: New Poems, Brockport: BOA Editions, Ltd., 1987 — finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize[21]
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Ten Oxherding Pictures, Santa Cruz: Moving Parts Press, 1988
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Quilting: Poems 1987–1990, Brockport: BOA Editions, 1991, ISBN 978-0-918526-81-6
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The Book of Light, Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1993
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The Terrible Stories, Brockport: BOA Editions, 1996
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Blessing The Boats: New and Collected Poems 1988–2000, Rochester: BOA Editions, 2000, ISBN 978-1-880238-88-2; Paw Prints, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4395-0356-0 —winner of the National Book Award[22]
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Mercy, Rochester: BOA Editions, 2004, ISBN 978-1-929918-55-3
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Voices, Rochester: BOA Editions, 2008, ISBN 978-1-934414-12-5
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The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, Rochester: BOA Editions, 2012, ISBN 978-1-934414-90-3
Children's books
Rear Admiral J. Scott Burhoe reads Three Wishes, by Clifton, to a first-grade class at Nathan Hale Elementary in honor of African American History Month, February 12, 2010.
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Three Wishes (Doubleday)
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The Boy Who Didn't Believe In Spring (Penguin)
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The Lucky Stone. Delacorte Press. 1979. ISBN 978-0-440-05122-0.; Reprint Yearling Books, ISBN 978-0-307-53795-9
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The Times They Used To Be (Henry Holt & Co)
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All Us Come Cross the Water (Henry Holt)
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My Friend Jacob (Dutton)
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Amifika (Dutton)
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Sonora the Beautiful (Dutton)
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The Black B C's (Dutton)
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The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children. Introduction by Lucille Clifton (San Val)
The Everett Anderson series
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Everett Anderson's Goodbye (Henry Holt)
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One of the Problems of Everett Anderson (Henry Holt)
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Everett Anderson's Friend (Henry Holt)
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Everett Anderson's Christmas Coming (Henry Holt)
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Everett Anderson's 1-2-3 (Henry Holt)
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Everett Anderson's Year (Henry Holt)
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Some of the Days of Everett Anderson (Henry Holt)
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Everett Anderson's Nine Month Long (Henry Holt)
Nonfiction
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Generations: A Memoir, New York: Random House, 1976, ISBN 978-0-394-46155-7
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