Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000

Lucille Clifton · 2000 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Contemporary

A selection from the decade's books that gathers short, lower-case poems of Black American family, the body, cancer, scripture and the slave past, with a section of new work. The title poem blesses a child setting out on the water. It is a retrospective volume, admitted as the book that won the 2000 National Book Award, and carries no single narrative.

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