How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton

How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America-s 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 Clifton-s characteristic style-a voice that the late Toni Morrison described as -seductive with the simplicity of an atom, which is to say highly complex, explosive underneath an apparent quietude.- Selected and introduced by award-winning poet Aracelis Girmay, this volume of Clifton-s poetry is simultaneously timeless and fitting for today-s tumultuous moment.