How To Carry Water: Selected Poems Of Lucille Clifton

"Clifton is simply a pillar of contemporary American poetry. Her body of work, about Black experience, motherhood and spirituality, is collected in a 700-page doorstopper, a treasure but not a book you can take on the go. This new career-spanning selection of her poetry is the book Clifton’s readers have been waiting for. Edited by Aracelis Girmay, a breathtaking poet in her own right, this is the Clifton collection that will be the standard text for decades. In it – and I’m only exaggerating a little – you’ll find all the answers, as well as all the questions."