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In 2013, her posthumously published collection \u003cem\u003eThe Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 \u003c\/em\u003e(BOA, 2012), was awarded the Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"blessing-the-boats-new-and-selected-poems-1988-2000","title":"Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLucille\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eClifton, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeb Del Sol Review of Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003edonor\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e                     \u003cem\u003eto lex\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewhen they tell me that my body\u003cbr\u003emight reject \u003cbr\u003ei think of thirty years ago\u003cbr\u003eand the hangers i shoved inside \u003cbr\u003ehard trying to not have you. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ei think of the pills, the everything \u003cbr\u003ei gathered against your \u003cbr\u003einconvenient bulge; and you\u003cbr\u003emy stubborn baby child,\u003cbr\u003ehunched there in the dark \u003cbr\u003erefusing my refusal. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003esuppose my body does say no\u003cbr\u003eto yours.   again, again i feel you\u003cbr\u003ebuckled in despite me, lex, \u003cbr\u003efastened to life like the frown\u003cbr\u003eon an angel's brow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":9644921029,"sku":"9781880238882","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/BlessingtheBoats_frontcover.jpg?v=1527683185"},{"product_id":"good-woman","title":"Good Woman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Lucille Clifton is one of the four or five most authentic and profound living American poets. Her ear is fine-tuned to the subtle relationship of verbal music to image and metaphor; and her imagination avails itself of that osmosis by which the mythic is realized in the quotidian, the humble and everyday is illuminated by the spiritual.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—Denise Levertov\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003efebruary 13, 1980\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003etwenty-one years of my life you have been\u003cbr\u003ethe lost color in my eye. my secret blindness,\u003cbr\u003eall my seeings turned grey with your going.\u003cbr\u003emother, i have worn your name like a shield.\u003cbr\u003eit has torn but protected me all these years,\u003cbr\u003enow even your absence comes of age.\u003cbr\u003ei put on a dress called woman for this day\u003cbr\u003ebut i am not grown away from you\u003cbr\u003ewhatever i say.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrice: $18.50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd 1987\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":8418492933,"sku":"9780918526595","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/GOODWOMAN2.jpg?v=1527683268"},{"product_id":"mercy","title":"Mercy","description":"\u003ch4\u003eWinner of the National Book Award\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLucille Clifton understands that other people's joy, grief, and loss stand in direct relationship with her own. Amid turns sad, exuberant and angry, her voice has always been one of great empathy and wisdom -- as she says, \"the only mercy is memory.\" In \u003cem\u003eMercy\u003c\/em\u003e, her eleventh book of poetry, the National Book Award-winner speaks to the tenuous relationship between mothers and daughters, the open wounds of terrorism and racial prejudice, and the redemptive gifts of faith and art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Excerpt from \"surely i am able to write poems\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e surely i am able to write poems\u003cbr\u003e celebrating grass and how the blue\u003cbr\u003e in the sky can flow green or red\u003cbr\u003e and the waters lean against the\u003cbr\u003e chesapeake shore like a familiar,\u003cbr\u003e poems about nature and landscape\u003cbr\u003e surely     but whenever i begin \u003cbr\u003e \"the trees wave their knotted branches\u003cbr\u003e and...\" why is there under that poem always\u003cbr\u003e an other poem?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ©BOA Editions, Ltd 2004\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Available editions:\u003cbr\u003e -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e Cloth ISBN: 1-929918-54-2\u003cbr\u003e Price: $22.00 \u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: August 2004 \u003cbr\u003e Paperback ISBN: 1-929918-55-0\u003cbr\u003e Price: $14.95 \u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: August 2004\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":9802213253,"sku":"1929918550","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cloth","offer_id":8418658949,"sku":"1-929918-54-2","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/MERCY.jpg?v=1527683295"},{"product_id":"next-new-poems","title":"Next: New Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eClifton's poems about birth and death, sexuality and spirituality, and the quality of the non-white experience in America and elsewhere give voice to the universal human heart.  Poignant or humorous, harsh or loving, these new poems also reflect Clifton's continuing belief in the language of poetry as a bridge of human reconciliation, a belief in the power of song, a belief in tongues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eleukemia as a dream\/ritual \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eit is night in my room. \u003cbr\u003ethe woman beside me is dying. \u003cbr\u003ea small girl stands\u003cbr\u003eat the foot of the bed. \u003cbr\u003eshe is crying and carrying wine\u003cbr\u003eand a wafer. \u003cbr\u003eher name is the name i would have given\u003cbr\u003ethe daughter i would have liked to have had.\u003cbr\u003eshe grieves for herself and\u003cbr\u003enot for the woman. \u003cbr\u003eshe mourns the future and \u003cbr\u003enot the past. \u003cbr\u003eshe offers me her small communion.\u003cbr\u003ei roll the wafer and wine on my tongue.\u003cbr\u003ei accept my body. i accept my blood.\u003cbr\u003eeat she whispers. drink and eat.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd 1987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAvailable editions: \u003cbr\u003e--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003cbr\u003ePrice: $12.50 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8418728645,"sku":"0918526612","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/NEXT2.jpg?v=1527683304"},{"product_id":"the-terrible-stories","title":"The Terrible Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\r\n\tNational Book Award for Poetry Finalist Lucille Clifton is one of the most distinguished American poets writing today. In \u003cem\u003eThe Terrible Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, her tenth collection of verse, Clifton covers new terrain--cancer and mastectomy, the life of King David, encounters with a vixen fox who is both shaman and muse. Brilliantly honed language, stunning images and sharp rhythms address the whole of human experience: birth, death, children, family, sexuality and spirituality, and community in antebellum and contemporary American culture. Hers is a poetry passionate and wise, ranging from the personal to the biblical to the mythical, not afraid to rage or whisper. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cstrong\u003ebathsheba\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003c\/strong\u003e how it was     it was\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tas if all of the blood in my body\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tgorged\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tinto my loin\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tso that even my fingers grew stiff\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tbut cold and the heat of my rod\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\twas my only burning\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tdesire \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tdesire my only fire\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tand whether i loved her\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\ti could not say but\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\ti wanted her whatever she was\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\twhether a curse \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tof the wife of uriah \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t© BOA Editions, Ltd 1996\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tAvailable editions: \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPaperback ISBN: 1-880238-37-3\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPrice: $12.50 \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPublishing Date: January 1996\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8419221061,"sku":"1880238373","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/THE_TERRIBLE.jpg?v=1527683614"},{"product_id":"voices-poems-1","title":"Voices","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eVoices\u003c\/em\u003e, National Book Award-winner Lucille Clifton continues her celebrated aesthetic of writing compact poems that reveal powerful, sometimes disturbing truths. These include poems written for and about her mother and father, aunts, uncles and nephews, and extended family. Spare muscular language combine with copious silences to create the trademark Clifton poem – one is which the speaker always understands that the joy, grief and loss others have experienced stands in direct relationship with her own. One of Clifton's aesthetic strengths is her ability to write inventive dramatic monologues. Voices includes several dramatic monologues spoken by animals. Additionally, the food products Aunt Jemima syrup and Cream of Wheat get their say. Here is Cream of Wheat's take on who he truly might be, as he imagines himself, Jemima and Uncle Ben (from Uncle Ben's Rice) sharing a late night stroll through the supermarket aisles:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ecream of wheat\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e sometimes at night\u003cbr\u003e we stroll the market aisles\u003cbr\u003e ben and jemima and me     they\u003cbr\u003e walk in front     remembering this and that\u003cbr\u003e i lag behind\u003cbr\u003e trying to remove my chef's cap\u003cbr\u003e wondering about what ever pictured me\u003cbr\u003e then left me personless\u003cbr\u003e Rastus\u003cbr\u003e i read in an old paper\u003cbr\u003e i was called rastus\u003cbr\u003e but no mother ever\u003cbr\u003e gave that to her son     toward dawn\u003cbr\u003e we return to our shelves\u003cbr\u003e our boxes     ben and jemima and me\u003cbr\u003e we pose and smile     i simmer     what \u003cbr\u003e is my name  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"National Book Award-winner Clifton has long enjoyed national acclaim for her careful, colloquial, compact renditions of African-American voices...and these poems look even further back, to the origin of writing. 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Glaser\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeword by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAfterword by Kevin Young\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2013 Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe culmination of a 40-year career by one of America’s most revered poets, \u003cem\u003eThe Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010\u003c\/em\u003e combines all of Lucille Clifton’s published collections with 69 previously unpublished poems. The unpublished pieces feature early poems from 1965-1969, a collection-in-progress entitled \u003cem\u003eBook of Days\u003c\/em\u003e, and a poignant selection of final poems. An insightful Foreword by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, and a comprehensive Afterword by noted poet Kevin Young, frame Clifton’s lifetime body of work, providing a definitive statement about this major American poet’s career. 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Editors:\u003c\/strong\u003e This volume represents all the poems Lucille Clifton published in book form during her lifetime. It also includes groupings of previously uncollected poems placed in the book roughly when they were written: first, a small selection of “Early Poems” from the many Clifton wrote and kept but did not gather in her first full-length book, \u003cem\u003eGood Times\u003c\/em\u003e (1969); second, we have included a recently discovered typescript,\u003cem\u003e Book of Days\u003c\/em\u003e, that Clifton seems to have completed during 2006; and, finally, a grouping of “Last Poems \u0026amp; Drafts” that include late work and fragments, in various states of completion, found among her papers housed at Emory University. In all cases we have maintained the unique typography (and handwriting) found in her uncollected work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“birth-day\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003etoday we are possible.\u003cbr\u003e The morning, green and laundry-sweet,\u003cbr\u003e opens itself and we enter\u003cbr\u003eblind and mewling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e everything waits for us:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe snow kingdom\u003cbr\u003e sparkling and silent\u003cbr\u003e in its glacial cap,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe cane fields\u003cbr\u003eshining and sweet\u003cbr\u003e in the sun-drenched south.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e as the day arrives\u003cbr\u003ewith all its clumsy blessings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewhat we will become\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eThe love readers feel for Lucille Clifton—both the woman and her poetry—is constant and deeply felt. The lines that surface most frequently in praise of her work and her person are moving declarations of racial pride, courage, steadfastness . . . The personal courage of the woman cannot be gainsaid, but it should not function as a substitute for [acknowledging Clifton’s] piercing insight and bracing intelligence. My general impression of the best of her work: seductive with the simplicity of an atom, which is to say highly complex, explosive.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Toni Morrison, from the Foreword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e[\u003cem\u003eThe Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010\u003c\/em\u003e] may be the most important book of poetry to appear in years. Clifton was a major force in the last quarter of the 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century, writing unparalleled poems about African American experience while also creating an inimitable but influential style that combined lyrical concision with smooth, vernacular speech. Clifton died in 2010, leaving an unfillable hole in the world of poetry, though this book, from BOA Editions, is a fitting monument.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eIf you only read one poetry book in 2012, \u003cem\u003eThe Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010\u003c\/em\u003e ought to be it.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—NPR Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eClifton would hardly be the first writer the world needed time to get into proper focus. She died at 73 in 2010 and this book—collecting all her published poems and 69 previously unpublished—will go a long way toward sharpening the focus on her work so that she won\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003et be among those who have to wait centuries for history to get it right. A great book to be sure.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—The Buffalo News\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePublication Date: August 28, 2012\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-1-934414-90-3\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2012\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Cloth","offer_id":8420209349,"sku":"9781934414903","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/Lucille_Front.jpg?v=1527683364"},{"product_id":"how-to-carry-water-selected-poems-of-lucille-clifton","title":"How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited with a Foreword by Aracelis Girmay, \u003ci\u003eHow to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA special thank you to the Lannan Foundation and to all of our \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/pages\/lucille-clifton-challenge-grant\" title=\"Learn more about the Lucille Clifton Challenge Grant\"\u003eClifton Challenge Grant\u003c\/a\u003e supporters and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/boaeditions\/lucille-cliftons-selected-poems\/description\" title=\"Help us publish How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton\"\u003eKickstarter\u003c\/a\u003e backers for making this book possible!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for Lucille Clifton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cscript src=\"\/\/lithub.com\/b\/v1\/bookmarks.js?ver=1.5\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"bm-reviews\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tracy K. Smith, former U.S. Poet Laureate\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Reginald Dwayne Betts, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“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. 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Many were originally drafted for publication, but set aside—until now.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdited by Ali, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethis collection\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e includes a contextual Foreword and detailed notes that illuminate Clifton’s late writing process and the editorial journey of these poems—deepening and expanding the themes that defined Clifton’s celebrated body of work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAt the Gate\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a profound and necessary addition to Clifton’s legacy—one that reaffirms her place as a poet of the body, the spirit, and the deep truths that we must endure—her voice as intimate, fearless, and luminous as ever.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eAt the Gate \u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“This fresh brush with Clifton’s voice is nothing shy of a miracle—like a visitation from the other worlds the mighty poet herself taught so many of us to believe were real. And Kazim Ali’s meticulous framing of the drafts, variants and references making up these uncollected poems is a glorious window into how one of the essential voices of the late 20th and early 21st centuries made and understood her work.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Tracy K. Smith, 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003cem\u003eAt the Gate\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis an astonishing concentration of language opened, attended to, dreaming. Sharpening into clarity, whispering, raging, shifting—line to line, poem to poem—across planes, these poems are traces of Black feminist paths to relation. How we have needed them. And so it feels miraculous that a new book of Lucille Clifton’s poems should come to us now. 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