Blessing The Boats by Lucille Clifton 2023 Paperback NEW

In Blessing The Boats, Lucille Clifton, one of America's most beloved twentieth-century poets, presents an award-winning collection of her poems that explores the human experience with simplicity and song-like grace. Clifton's poetry touches on topics such as birth, death, children, dreams, spirituality, womanhood, illness, sexuality, and racial injustice. Her physically small poems have enormous and profound inner worlds, and her writing style transcends time, with early poems that could have been written yesterday and later works that could have been written decades ago. Clifton's poetry is so pared down that the spaces between the words take on substance, becoming a shaping presence as much as the words themselves. Toni Morrison praised Clifton and her poetry, stating that the love readers feel for her is constant and deeply felt.