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050	0	0	_aPS3553.L45 _bB58 2000
082	0	0	_a811.508 CLI
100	1		_aClifton, Lucille _d, 1935-2000
245	1	0	_aBlessing the boats _b: new and selected poems, 1988-2000 _c/ by Lucille Clifton
250			_a1st ed
260			_aRochester, NY _b: BOA Editions _c, 2000.
300			_a132 p. _c; 24 cm.
440		0	_aAmerican poets continuum series _v; v. 60
505	0		_aNew poems (2000) -- from Next (1988) -- from Quilting (1991) -- from The book of light (1993) -- from The terrible stories (1996).
520			_aCulling 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.
586			_aNational Book Award, 2000
650			_aAfrican Americans _x-Poetry
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