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Product details
- ISBN 9781960145253
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 17 Oct 2024
- Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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A Blessing the Boats Selection with a Foreword by Aracelis Girmay
Charleen McClure’s d-sorientation wanders the landscape of loss with a weathered eye and a clenched fist. Delving deep into personal hauntologies, McClure’s speakers are dislocated—their observations and interrogations are quietly desperate as they navigate history, relationships, and dig for their roots. The lexicon of McClure’s poetry is one of intimacy and outrage, one that challenges the reader to consider their own belonging.
Through bold lyric poems that beat with brutality yet glow with softness, McClure’s debut collection is a compass, pointing the reader towards reclamation.
Charleen McClure writes and lives a few miles off the Chattahoochee River. A Fulbright scholar, she was a 2020 recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. McClure made her film debut in All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (A24, 2023), written and directed by Raven Jackson. Her first poetry collection is a Blessing of the Boats Selection from BOA Editions, Ltd. publishing in September of 2024.
