Lucille Clifton's poems deal with life and death, religion and politics, motherhood and family.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

"I quite often get an intense feeling of life and death, of the sort of achievements and failures of the people."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

In one of its many statistical graphs, the WHO study shows money can mean the difference between life and death.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

There is one item of G.I. gear that can be the differencebetween life and death...

VOA: standard.other

So much unnecessary attention around this conference had been directed towards the dispute that is unintentionally distracting from the real life and death issues we are confronted with as a country, He said it would be wrong for the controversy to overshadow the goals of the 13th international AIDS Conference.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

Barbara Klein has more. The museum at Ford's Theatre was created to show Abraham Lincoln's life, and death,in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

And she says her near death experience has made her realize what really matters in life.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

The songs are about suffering, and the hope of a better life after death.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

Life itself is but a compromise between death and life.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Vaccination is a life or death question for poor people and if you can vaccinate a child to prevent a disease from happening it is a lot more cost effective than it is to treat that disease afterwards."

VOA: special.2010.03.29