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Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000

Lucille Clifton

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Lucille Clifton, one of America's most important and distinguished poets, employs brilliantly honed language, stunning images, and sharp rhythms to address the whole of human experience. Hers is a poetry that is passionate and wise, not afraid to confront our most salient issues.

"Although her work is often spare and simple, it is always beautifully and painstakingly crafted into poems that tell the truth, poems that insist on residing within the reader, poems by a poet who seeks and achieves the ability to be a vehicle for those who may not otherwise speak." —Web Del Sol Review of Books

Language: English

Pages: 132

Format: Paperback

Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.

Release: April 01, 2000

ISBN: 1880238888

ISBN 13: 9781880238882

Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000

Lucille Clifton

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Lucille Clifton, one of America's most important and distinguished poets, employs brilliantly honed language, stunning images, and sharp rhythms to address the whole of human experience. Hers is a poetry that is passionate and wise, not afraid to confront our most salient issues.

"Although her work is often spare and simple, it is always beautifully and painstakingly crafted into poems that tell the truth, poems that insist on residing within the reader, poems by a poet who seeks and achieves the ability to be a vehicle for those who may not otherwise speak." —Web Del Sol Review of Books

Language: English

Pages: 132

Format: Paperback

Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.

Release: April 01, 2000

ISBN: 1880238888

ISBN 13: 9781880238882

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