{"product_id":"american-sublime-poems","title":"American Sublime: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant new collection by Elizabeth Alexander, whose \"poems bristle with the irresistible quality of a world seen fresh\" (Rita Dove, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eToo many people have seen too much\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eand lived to tell, or not tell, or tell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ewith their silent, patterned bodies, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003etheir glass eyes, gone legs, flower-printed flesh . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-from \"Notes From\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her fourth remarkable collection, Elizabeth Alexander voices the outcries, dreams, and histories of an African American tradition that goes back to the slave rebellion on the Amistad and to the artists' canvases of nineteenth-century America. In persona poems, historical narratives, jazz riffs, sonnets, elegies, and a sequence of ars poetica, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Sublime\u003c\/i\u003e is Alexander's most vivid and varied collection and affirms her place as one of America's most lively and gifted writers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Alexander is an unusual thing, a sensualist of history, a romanticist of race. She weaves biography, history, experience, pop culture and dream. Her poems make the public and private dance together.\" --\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Elizabeth Alexander","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793350393898,"sku":"9781555974329","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/american-sublime-poems-3095689.jpg?v=1762150079","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/american-sublime-poems","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}