Blessing the Boats New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 [Paperback]

The long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets working today.Lucille Clifton won the 2007 Ruth Lilly Poetry Award. Her book, Blessing the Boats (BOA Editions), won the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry. Two of Clifton's BOA poetry collections were chosen as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. Clifton's awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and an Emmy Award.Selections from Clifton’s previous collections have been widely anthologized and adapted for everything from college curriculums to rock music. Clifton was recently named a Chancellor for The Academy of American Poets. BOA’s best-selling and most honored author: The Terrible Stories : #1-880238-37-3 (7,844 copies) Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 : #0-918526-81-8 (14,157 copies) Next: New Poems : # 0-918526-81-8 (8,108 copies) Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980:: #0-981526-59-0 (14,748 copies) This includes 20 new poems.