How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton (Hardcover)

How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton By Lucille Clifton, Aracelis Girmay (Editor) Cover Image

How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton (Hardcover)

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Selected poems from celebrated poet Lucille Clifton's 50-year career selected by Whiting Award-winning poet Aracelis Girmay.
Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) 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.
Product Details ISBN: 9781950774142
ISBN-10: 1950774147
Publisher: BOA Editions
Publication Date: September 8th, 2020
Pages: 278
Language: English
Series: American Poets Continuum