ARGONAUT BOOKS

'Blessing the Boats' draws together poems from across Lucille Clifton's career, showcasing the stunning simplicity and grace with which she addressed the whole of human experience: birth, death, children, family, illness, sexuality and injustice in antebellum and contemporary America. Hers is a poetry that is passionate and wise, not afraid to rage or whisper; a poetry that speaks unparalleled candour and empathy to the personal, the political and the spiritual. Reviews Seductive with the simplicity of an atom, which is to say highly complex, explosive underneath an apparent...Read More