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Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton
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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?
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August 12, 2023 – Started Reading
August 12, 2023 – Shelved
August 25, 2023 – Finished Reading

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