shopping cart
Call us: 800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.
Interviews | July 4, 2009

Jill Owens: IMG Powells.com Interview: Luis Alberto Urrea

2 comments By Jill Owens

luisalbertourreaLuis Alberto Urrea is a poet, novelist, journalist, and essayist who has been writing about the relationship between the United States and Mexico,... Continue »
  1. $17.49 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

    Into the Beautiful North

    Luis Alberto Urrea
Ships free on qualified orders.
$17.00
TRADE PAPER, NEW
Ships in 1 to 3 days
Add to Wishlist
Qty Store Section
1 Burnside Poetry- A to Z
8 Local Warehouse Poetry- African American
1 Remote Warehouse Poetry- A to Z
Click here to hide store locations


More copies of this ISBN:

This title in other formats:

Other titles in the American Poets Continuum series:

  1. Broken Hallelujahs
  2. Carpathia
  3. Cool Auditor
  4. Each in His Season
  5. For the Kingdom: Poems
  6. Fuel
  7. Gratitude: Poems
  8. John Logan: The Collected Poems
  9. Love Song with Motor Vehicles
  10. Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone
  11. Sharp Stars
  12. Slope of the Child Everlasting
  13. Struggling Times
  14. The Book of Names: New and Selected Poems
  15. The Heat of Arrivals
  16. The Heaven-Sent Leaf
  17. The Moon Makes Its Own Plea
  18. These Upraised Hands: Poems
  19. Trillium: Poems
  20. Wordworks: Poems Selected and New
  21. Yin: New Poems
  22. Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
  23. Next: New Poems
  24. Isabella Gardner: The Collected Poems
  25. The Sunken Lightship: Poems
  26. The City in Which I Love You: Poems
  27. Quilting: Poems 1987-1990
  28. John Logan: The Collected Fiction
  29. Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard: Poems
  30. What We Carry
  31. Red Suitcase: Poems
  32. Song
  33. The Night Path
  34. At My Ease: Uncollected Poems of the Fifties and Sixties
  35. Radiography
  36. Diana, Charles and the Queen
  37. Plus Shipping: Poems
  38. Cabato Sentora
  39. We Didn't Come Here for This : a Memoir in Poetry (99 Edition)
  40. The Vandals: Poems
  41. To Get Here
  42. Living is What I Wanted: Last Poems
  43. Dusty Angel
  44. The Tiger Iris
  45. White City
  46. Tell Me
  47. Rancho Notorious
  48. Jam
  49. A. Poulin, Jr.: Selected Poems
  50. Book of My Nights
  51. Small Gods of Grief
  52. Tulip Farms and Leper Colonies
  53. Double Going: Poems
  54. What He Took
  55. The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande: Poems
  56. Mules of Love: Poems
  57. Dumb Luck: Poems
  58. Life Watch
  59. Is
  60. Precipitates
  61. The Orchard
  62. Curious Conduct
  63. Mercy
  64. Model Homes
  65. American Children
  66. Splendor:
  67. The Burning of Troy
  68. Darling Vulgarity
  69. Persistence of Objects: Poems (06 Edition)
  70. Peeping Tom's Cabin: Comic Verse 1928-2008
  71. Disclamor
  72. Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death
  73. Sleeping with Houdini
  74. Nomina
  75. The Fortieth Day
  76. Elephants & Butterflies
  77. Voices
  78. And

Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000 (American Poets Continuum #59)

by Lucille Clifton

Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000 (American Poets Continuum #59) Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

This long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets writing today includes new poems written during the past four years as well as generous selections from Lucille Clifton's award-winning collections Next: New Poems, Quilting, The Book of Light and The Terrible Stories. Clifton employs brilliantly honed language, stunning images and sharp rhythms to address the whole of human experience: birth, death, children, family, illness, sexuality, spirituality and injustice in antebellum and contemporary America. Hers is a poetry that is passionate and wise, not afraid to rage or whisper.
back to top

About the Author

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.
back to top

Table of Contents

new poems (2000) — from next (1988) — from quilting (1991) — from the book of light (1993) — from The Terrible Stories (1996)
back to top
back to top

Product Details

ISBN:
9781880238882
Subtitle:
New and Selected Poems 1988-20
Author:
Clifton, Lucille
Publisher:
BOA Editions
Location:
Rochester, N.Y. :
Subject:
American poetry
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Afro-american authors
Subject:
Single Author - African American
Subject:
African Americans
Subject:
Afro-American women poets
Subject:
American - African American
Subject:
African-American women
Subject:
General Poetry
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
American poets continuum series ;
Series Volume:
59
Publication Date:
April 2000
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
145
Dimensions:
9.06x6.04x.41 in. .46 lbs.
back to top

Other books you might like

  1. $9.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    A Poetry Handbook

    Mary Oliver
  2. $9.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    Native Guard

    Natasha Trethewey
  3. $7.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems

    Billy Collins
  4. $7.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    Sun Under Wood

    Robert Hass
  5. $9.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems

    Mary Oliver
  6. $6.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    Love Is Not a Consolation: It Is a Light

    Primus St John
back to top

Related Aisles

  • back to top

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.