How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton

Lucille Clifton author Aracelis Girmay editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:BOA Editions, Limited

Published:4th Nov '21

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    • Selected poems from celebrated poet Lucille Clifton’s 50-year career selected by Whiting Award-winning poet Aracelis Girmay.

    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.

    • Winner of Robert Frost Medal 2010 (United States)
    • Winner of Lannan Literary Award for Poetry 1996 (United States)
    • Winner of National Book Award 2000 (United States)
    • Winner of Hurtson/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry 2012 (United States)
    • Winner of Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize 2007 (United States)

    ISBN: 9781950774159

    Dimensions: unknown

    Weight: unknown

    278 pages

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