RaveGulf CoastHow to Carry Water...offers what Conners called a more \'streamlined version\' of Clifton’s vast and varied poetic legacy ... How to Carry Water assembles many of the poems that diehard Clifton fans would consider essential ... It also brings to the surface an assortment of less familiar poems that resonate more potently with the challenges, aspirations, ambivalences, and commitments of a more recent cultural atmosphere ... Girmay, at the end of her lyrical foreword to How to Carry Water (reason enough to buy the new collection), addresses this tension in Clifton’s evolving legacy...the poet’s radical grit, strangeness, and brilliance.
