How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton by Lucille Clifton

How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton

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How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton by Lucille Clifton
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How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton

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How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton

by Lucille Clifton

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How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America's most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered poems that have never been collected.

These poems celebrating black womanhood and resilience shimmer with intellect, insight, humor, and joy, all in Clifton's characteristic style-a voice that the late Toni Morrison described as "seductive with the simplicity of an atom, which is to say highly complex, explosive underneath an apparent quietude." Selected and introduced by award-winning poet Aracelis Girmay, this volume of Clifton's poetry is simultaneously timeless and fitting for today's tumultuous moment.
Book Details
Publisher:
BOA Editions
ISBN:
9781950774159
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
278
Authors:
Lucille Clifton
Published Date:
2021-09-21
Language:
English
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About Lucille Clifton

A National Book Award winner and the first Black woman to receive the Poetry Foundation's Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Lucille Clifton (1936–2010) was born in Depew, New York, and studied at Howard University. Her debut, Good Times (Random House, 1969), was a New York Times best book of the year. Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 (BOA Editions, 2000) won the National Book Award for Poetry. In 1988 she became the first writer to have two collections, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir, 1969-1980 and Next: New Poems (both BOA Editions, 1987), named Pulitzer Prize finalists in the same year. The Poetry Society of America awarded her the Robert Frost Medal in 2010.

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