Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 (Paperback)

from SqueakyChu

I thought I'd like this book at first glance. I saw it had been written by an African American woman, and it was the winner of the National Book Award. I was wrong. I read the poems aloud, but I got very little out of most of them. They sounded fine, but seemed to be way over my head. There were...

from whitewavedarling

I read quite a bit of poetry, though I rarely end up sitting down and reading a collection by a single author at once without jumping between collections, journals, etc. This was an exception. I had read Clifton before, but only poems that were dropped into larger anthologies, and while I'd enjoy...

from whitewavedarling

I read quite a bit of poetry, though I rarely end up sitting down and reading a collection by a single author at once without jumping between collections, journals, etc. This was an exception. I had read Clifton before, but only poems that were dropped into larger anthologies, and while I'd enjoy...