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ISBN-10: 1950774155
ISBN-13: 9781950774159
Publisher: BOA Editions
Publish Date: 09/21/2021
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 5.91" W, 0.87" H

How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton

Editor: Aracelis Girmay

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Price: $20.00

Overview

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

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"Clifton was one of America's great poets, whose work throughout her lifetime was committed to chronicling and celebrating black lives. The honesty, joy, wisdom, and hope she brought to this task is regenerative."

-Tracy K. Smith, former U.S. Poet Laureate


"Clifton's earliest poems could have been written yesterday, and her later works could have been written decades ago. Each poem is always its own world. Her poems touch on the political, the personal, the spiritual."

-Reginald Dwayne Betts, The New York Times


"Open up to any page and Clifton delivers a word. Whether the subject is roaches, family, death, or surviving, she has a psalm for all occasions. She can create the most complicated magic out of the simplest words."

-Danez Smith, The Week

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ISBN-10: 1950774155
ISBN-13: 9781950774159
Publisher: BOA Editions
Publish Date: 09/21/2021
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 5.91" W, 0.87" H
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