Blessing the Boats - From New Poems (2000), "libation" Summary & Analysis

Lucille Clifton

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From New Poems (2000), "the times"

From New Poems (2000), "signs"

From New Poems (2000), "moonchild"

From New Poems (2000), "dialysis"

From New Poems (2000), "donor"

From New Poems (2000), "libation"

From New Poems (2000), "jasper texas 1998"

From New Poems (2000), "Alabama 9/15/63"

From New Poems (2000), "what i think when i ride the train"

From New Poems (2000), "praise song"

From New Poems (2000), "august"

From New Poems (2000), "study the masters"

From New Poems (2000), "lazarus, first day"

From New Poems (2000), "lazarus, second day"

From New Poems (2000), "lazarus, third day"

From New Poems (2000), "birthday 1999"

From New Poems (2000), "grief"

From New Poems (2000), "report from the angel of eden"

From next (1988), "album"

From next (1988), "why some people be mad at me sometimes"

From next (1988), "sorrow song"

From next (1988), "female"

From next (1988), "my dream about being white"

From next (1988), "my dream about the cows"

From next (1988), "my dream about time"

From next (1988), "my dream about falling"

From next (1988), "my dream about the second coming"

From next (1988), "my dream about God"

From next (1988), "my dream about the poet"

From next (1988), "the death of thelma sales"

From next (1988), "lives"

From next (1988), "the message of thelma sayles"

From next (1988), "the death of fred clifton"

From next (1988), "shapeshifter poems"

From quilting (1991), "quilting"

From quilting (1991), "white lady"

From quilting (1991), "the birth of language"

From quilting (1991), "sleeping beauty"

From quilting (1991), "poem in praise of menstruation"

From quilting (1991), "peeping tom"

From quilting (1991), "wild blessings"

From quilting (1991), "photograph"

From quilting (1991), "lot's wife 1988"

From quilting (1991), "poem to my uterus"

From quilting (1991), "to my last period"

From quilting (1991), "wishes for sons"

From quilting (1991), "How art though fallen From Heaven/O Lucifer, son of the Morning?..."

From quilting (1991), "remembering the birth of lucifer"

From quilting (1991), "whispered to lucifer"

From quilting (1991), "eve's version"

From quilting (1991), "lucifer understanding at last"

From quilting (1991), "the garden of delight"

From quilting (1991), "adam thinking"

From quilting (1991), "eve thinking"

From quilting (1991), "the story thus far"

From quilting (1991), "lucifer speaks in his own voice"

From quilting (1991), "blessing the boats"

From the book of light (1993), "imagining bear"

From the book of light (1993), "the women you are accustomed to"

From the book of light (1993), "song at midnight"

From the book of light (1993), "here yet be dragons"

From the book of light (1993), "the yeti poet returns to his village to tell his story"

From the book of light (1993), "crabbing (the poet crab speaks)"

From the book of light (1993), "the earth is a living thing"

From the book of light (1993), "if i should"

From the book of light (1993), "further note to clark"

From the book of light (1993), "final note to clark"

From the book of light (1993), "note, passed to superman"

From the book of light (1993), "leda 1"

From the book of light (1993), "leda 2"

From the book of light (1993), "leda 3"

From the book of light (1993), "far memory 1"

From the book of light (1993), "far memory 2"

From the book of light (1993), "far memory 3"

From the book of light (1993), "far memory 4"

From the book of light (1993), "far memory 5"

From the book of light (1993), "far memory 6"

From the book of light (1993), "far memory 7"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "telling our Stories"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "fox"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "the coming of fox"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "dear fox"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "leaving fox"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "one year later"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "a dream of foxes"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "amazons"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "lumpectomy eve"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "1994"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "hag riding"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "rust"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "slaveships"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "memphis"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "memory"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "what did she know, when did she know it"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "lorena"

From The Terrible Stories (1996), "heaven"

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From New Poems (2000), "libation" Summary

This poem is subtitled "north Carolina, 1999," referring probably to a visit the poet has made to a slave plantation. She has brought some gin and pours it out on the ground, a religious ceremony for honoring a deity; in this case, the one honored is a man grown old in slavery, having lived his life and sacrificed everything for the slaveholders, at the end of his life ending up with nothing but tears and thirst.

The first verse mentions that she offers the gin to the ground, imagining the old man, crying in secret so the overseer will not see. The second verse mentions teeth lost, and the ache where the tooth would be, and the subsequent verse points out that the ache for the tooth is similar to the ache he feels...

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