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American Sublime

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Cover design: Julie Metz / Cover art: Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Annunciation. Philadelphia Museum of Art: Purchased with the W.P. Wilstach Fund, 1899.

Finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize 

In her fourth remarkable collection, Elizabeth Alexander voices the outcries, dreams, and histories of an African American tradition that goes back to the rebellion on the slave schooner Amistad and to the artists’ canvases of nineteenth-century America.

Price: $14.00 USD
Poetry 1-55597-432-5, 96 pages, Paper

In persona poems, historical narratives, jazz riffs, sonnets, elegies, and a sequence of ars poetica, American Sublime is Alexander’s most vivid and varied collection and affirms her place as one of America’s most lively and gifted writers.

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