Lucille Clifton Blessing The Boats Paperback Book

An awardwinning collection from one of Americas most beloved twentiethcentury poetsThe love readers feel for Lucille Clifton both the woman and her poetry is constant and deeply felt Toni MorrisonLucille Clifton was one of the most distinguished American poets of the twentieth century. This awardwinning collection of her poems showcases the simplicity and songlike grace with which she addressed the whole of human experience birth, death, children, dreams, spirituality, womanhood, illness, sexuality and racial injustice. Physically small poems with enormous and profound inner worlds Elizabeth Alexander, New YorkerCliftons earliest poems could have been written yesterday, and her later works could have been written decades ago Reginald Dwayne Betts, The New York TimesA poetry so pared down that its spaces take on substance, become a shaping presence as much as the words themselves Peggy Rosenthal | Lucille Clifton Blessing The Boats Paperback Book