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The World Has Need of You

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You do make a difference, the poet is saying, you are needed, there really is an "invisible tug between you and everything."

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Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000

Clifton’s poems owe a great deal to oral tradition. Her work is wonderfully musical and benefits greatly from being read aloud: “It is hard to remain human on a day/ when birds perch weeping/ in the trees and the squirrel eyes/ do not look away but the dog ones do/ in pity.

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Oneness