Blessing the boats : new and selected poems, 1988-2000
Clifton, Lucille , 1935-2000
Blessing the boats : new and selected poems, 1988-2000 / by Lucille Clifton - 1st ed - Rochester, NY : BOA Editions , 2000. - 132 p. ; 24 cm. - American poets continuum series ; v. 60 .
New poems (2000) -- from Next (1988) -- from Quilting (1991) -- from The book of light (1993) -- from The terrible stories (1996).
Culling from her last four books and including 19 new poems, Clifton's latest offers few surprises, but all of the joys and straight-talk readers have come to expect over 40 or so years of work. Proceeding chronologically, poems from next retell "my dream about the cows," "my dream about being white" and "the message of thelma sayles," among other poems and modes. Quilting juxtaposes updatings of Eden with poems on menstruation, and with, among others, the title poem.
National Book Award, 2000
1880238888
00131741
African Americans---Poetry
PS3553.L45 / B58 2000
811.508 CLI
Blessing the boats : new and selected poems, 1988-2000 / by Lucille Clifton - 1st ed - Rochester, NY : BOA Editions , 2000. - 132 p. ; 24 cm. - American poets continuum series ; v. 60 .
New poems (2000) -- from Next (1988) -- from Quilting (1991) -- from The book of light (1993) -- from The terrible stories (1996).
Culling from her last four books and including 19 new poems, Clifton's latest offers few surprises, but all of the joys and straight-talk readers have come to expect over 40 or so years of work. Proceeding chronologically, poems from next retell "my dream about the cows," "my dream about being white" and "the message of thelma sayles," among other poems and modes. Quilting juxtaposes updatings of Eden with poems on menstruation, and with, among others, the title poem.
National Book Award, 2000
1880238888
00131741
African Americans---Poetry
PS3553.L45 / B58 2000
811.508 CLI
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