Everything you need to understand or teach Homage to My Hips.
The poem “homage to my hips” by 20th-century American poet and writer Lucille Clifton was first published in her 1980 collection Two-Headed Woman. Included in a series of praise poems that maintain the integrity of the speaker’s body, “homage to my hips” deals with modern beauty standards, race, and gender. Using words like “mighty” and “magic” to describe her hips, the speaker celebrates her body and her identity. The poem can be characterized as Black feminist writing.
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