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Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000
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(I'm not rating this book because I feel it's beyond my rating. I just want to share some thoughts and encourage y'all to read her).
It was an emotional labour to read this one. Partly because I can deeply relate to some of the poems. Her voice is a strong voice of women. But even more, because to some of them I'll never be able to relate (for example because I happened to be born white). It was deeply harrowing to experience her life through the poems. Her words cut deep.
I even started to translate some - it's freakin hard. She's super sparesome with words, I need all my creativity to find such condensed, layered Hungarian equivalents.
Why don't we read much more Lucille Clifton here in Europe tho?
It was an emotional labour to read this one. Partly because I can deeply relate to some of the poems. Her voice is a strong voice of women. But even more, because to some of them I'll never be able to relate (for example because I happened to be born white). It was deeply harrowing to experience her life through the poems. Her words cut deep.
I even started to translate some - it's freakin hard. She's super sparesome with words, I need all my creativity to find such condensed, layered Hungarian equivalents.
Why don't we read much more Lucille Clifton here in Europe tho?
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