Blessing The Boats

An award-winning collection from one of America`s most beloved twentieth-century poets `The love readers feel for Lucille Clifton - both the woman and her poetry - is constant and deeply felt` Toni Morrison Lucille Clifton was one of the most distinguished American poets of the twentieth century. This award-winning collection of her poems showcases the simplicity and song-like grace with which she addressed the whole of human experience: birth, death, children, dreams, spirituality, womanhood, illness, sexuality and racial injustice.