Blessing The Boats Av Lucille Clifton

<p><b>An award-winning collection from one of America''s most beloved twentieth-century poets<br></b><br>''The love readers feel for Lucille Clifton - both the woman and her poetry - is constant and deeply felt'' Toni Morrison<br><br>Lucille Clifton was one of the most distinguished American poets of the twentieth century. This award-winning collection of her poems showcases the simplicity and song-like grace with which she addressed the whole of human experience: birth, death, children, dreams, spirituality, womanhood, illness, sexuality and racial injustice.<br><br>''Physically small poems with enormous and profound inner worlds'' Elizabeth Alexander, <i>New Yorker<br></i><br>''Clifton''s earliest poems could have been written yesterday, and her later works could have been written decades ago'' Reginald Dwayne Betts, <i>The New York Times<br></i><br>''A poetry so pared down that its spaces take on substance, become a shaping presence as much as the words themselves'' Peggy Rosenthal<