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Cover credits: Cover design: Julie Metz/Cover art: Bob Thompson, Garden of Music,
1960, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary
Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 1987.4, Estate of the Artist courtesy
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, NYC. |
"In narratives sweetened by the lyric pulse and pierced through by
felicitous turns of irony, Alexander chronicles the world of 'black and
tan'. Race is present in her poems in the way that sex, class, age,
even weather are present in all of our lives." —Rita Dove, "Poets Choice," The Washington Post |
Price: $14.00 USD
In surprising turns through different American cities and eras, and
through the strange rhythms of dream, Alexander composes her own kind
of improvisational jazz. It is a music of resistances and flights of
fancy: her father’s engagement in the Civil Rights movement of the
1960s and ’70s; the struggle to see through a postpartum fog; a vision
in which she takes on the narrative voice of the great boxer Muhammad
Ali.
The New York Times Book Review has said that “Elizabeth
Alexander creates intellectual magic in poem after poem.” In this
stunning third collection, she furthers her reputation as a vital and
vivid poetic voice on race, gender, politics, and motherhood
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