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Blessing The Boats: Lucille Clifton

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Blessing the Boats is a book of poetry from Lucille Clifton. The book is split into different sections from different time periods of her life. Each section of poetry tends to have similarities, including theme and the recurrence of foxes. Ms. Clifton’s writing style is very minimalist - style-wise and with her language. Most perceptible, she has a knack for lowercase letters and no punctuation. A majority of her poems include racism, sexism, religion, and her own life experiences. She is very unapologetic in her writing, no matter if she’s writing about abortions or her dreams about Jesus. Personally, I find that very encouraging, especially as she was a woman of color in an unforgiving time period. She does not try to make her opinions pretty
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