{"product_id":"at-the-gate-uncollected-poems-1987-2010","title":"At the Gate: Uncollected Poems 1987-2010","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt the Gate\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e gathers more than seventy previously unpublished poems by the iconic American poet Lucille Clifton written over the last two decades of her life.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDiscovered in digital archives by poet and scholar Kazim Ali, these poems span a prolific and reflective period in Clifton’s career as she shifted from typewriters to word processors and desktop computers. 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. In profound and ongoing attunement with Clifton’s oeuvre, scholar, poet, and editor Kazim Ali brings to us an essential text by one of the great practitioners of our time.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—aracelis girmay, author of \u003cem\u003ethe black maria\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eyour life\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ei am making a mirror\u003cbr\u003eof your life.\u003cbr\u003ei am turning two fishboys\u003cbr\u003eslick as stone.\u003cbr\u003ethey will pour from me\u003cbr\u003elike each other’s cup.\u003cbr\u003ethey will call your absence\u003cbr\u003efather.\u003cbr\u003elater their faces will dry\u003cbr\u003einto twins. they will\u003cbr\u003eask in one voice\u003cbr\u003etheir father’s right name.\u003cbr\u003emake poems, i will tell them,\u003cbr\u003emake poems.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47926107406565,"sku":null,"price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47926107439333,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":48876373541093,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/files\/AtTheGate_CVR_1600px_RGB_LG.jpg?v=1760730302","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/at-the-gate-uncollected-poems-1987-2010","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}