num_pages: 132
description: Lucille Clifton, one of America's most important and distinguished poets, employs brilliantly honed language, stunning images, and sharp rhythms to address the whole of human experience. Hers is a poetry that is passionate and wise, not afraid to confront our most salient issues."Although her work is often spare and simple, it is always beautifully and painstakingly crafted into poems that tell the truth, poems that insist on residing within the reader, poems by a poet who seeks and achieves the ability to be a vehicle for those who may not otherwise speak." —Web Del Sol Review of Books
language: English
title: Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000
titlecomplete: Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000
genres: African American Literature, African American, Classics, Race, Womens, Nonfiction, Feminism, Female Authors, Poetry, Cultural
ratings_count: 1966
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: National Book Award
category: Poetry
publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.