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How to Carry Water

Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton

Lucille Clifton Aracelis Girmay

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English
BOA Editions, Limited
04 January 2022
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.
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Imprint:   BOA Editions, Limited
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 228mm,  Width: 152mm, 
ISBN:   9781950774159
ISBN 10:   1950774155
Series:   American Poets Continuum Series
Pages:   278
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Lucille Clifton (19362010) was an award winning poet, fiction writer, and author of children's books. Her poetry collection, Blessing the Boats: New & Selected Poems 1988-2000 (BOA, 2000), won the National Book Award for Poetry. In 1988 she became the only author to have two collections selected in the same year as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir (BOA, 1987), and Next: New Poems (BOA, 1987). In 1996, her collection The Terrible Stories (BOA, 1996), was a finalist for the National Book Award. Among her many other awards and accolades are the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Frost Medal, and an Emmy Award. In 2013, her posthumously published collection The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 (BOA, 2012), was awarded the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry.

Reviews for How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton

"""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"


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

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