How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton ed. by Aracelis Girmay

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How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton ed. by Aracelis GirmayHow to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser known works by one of Americas most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered poems that have never been collected. These poems celebrating black womanhood and resilience shimmer with intellect, insight, humor, and joy, all in Cliftons characteristic stylea voice that the late Toni Morrison described as seductive with the simplicity of an atom, which is to say

and unafraid of the consequences of speaking the truth to power about the political atrocities she has witnessed and personal traumas she has withstood

Koch describes his inventive methods for teaching these children how to create poems and gives numerous examples of their work

Silver is a collection that reflects Phillips’s guiding principle—“part physics

from Antigone and Houdini to Huitzilopochtli and Jesus

there is a new excitement about rediscovering poetry’s ancient musical and performative roots

-Rita Banerjee

explores the creation of a trans language for selfhood within an exilic state of “ecstatic grief

” Her poems provide a way out and in: they slide in the making

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” Neuberg challenges us with an intrepid call to arms—to confront and implore us to look

the shape of these elegies

poetry is as physical or bodily an art as dancing

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