Bread Loaf Lecture Series: “Magnitude and Bond: Imagery and the Sensual in the Work of Gwendolyn Brooks and Lucille Cli

“Magnitude and Bond: Imagery and the Sensual in the Work of Gwendolyn Brooks and Lucille Clifton” with Vievee Francis

Vievee Francis will explore the way Brooks’s and Clifton’s provocative and surprising use of imagery allows broad readings of the black body’s restraint and boundlessness. Through this exploration we may all find a means of (re)claiming our bodies for ourselves.