Blessing the Boats draws together poems from across Lucille Clifton's career, showcasing the stunning simplicity and grace with which she addressed the whole of human experience: birth, death, children, family, illness, sexuality and injustice in antebellum and contemporary America. Hers is a poetry that is passionate and wise, not afraid to rage or whisper; a poetry that speaks unparalleled candour and empathy to the personal, the political and the spiritual.
Lucille Clifton
Title :9780241609019
ISBN :9780241609019
Publisher :Penguin UK
Pages :144
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Pub date :
Mar 2, 2023, 08:00 AM
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Apr 2, 2023, 08:00 AM
Length :199
Width :130
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Blessing the Boats draws together poems from across Lucille Clifton's career, showcasing the stunning simplicity and grace with which she addressed the whole of human experience: birth, death, children, family, illness, sexuality and injustice in antebellum and contemporary America. Hers is a poetry that is passionate and wise, not afraid to rage or whisper; a poetry that speaks unparalleled candour and empathy to the personal, the political and the spiritual.
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