# Blessing The Boats

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- Authors: [Lucille Clifton](https://www.bookquiver.com/lucille-clifton)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4160-901-9
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2023-03-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Blessing the Boats draws 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.