Blessing the Boats

An award-winning collection from one of America's most distinguished twentieth-century poets

Blessing the Boatsdraws 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.

ISBN: 9780241609019 | Published: 6 June 2023 | Paperback | 128 pages