Antebellum Dream Book by Elizabeth Alexander

Antebellum Dream Book

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Antebellum Dream Book by Elizabeth Alexander

Graywolf Press

Antebellum Dream Book

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In surprising turns through different American cities, mindsets, and eras, and through the strange rhythms of dreaming, the celebrated poet Elizabeth Alexander composes her own kind of improvisational jazz. Antebellum Dream Book offers a music of resistances as well as soaring flights of fancy: the conflicts of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and after; a mother's struggle to see through a postpartum fog; a vision in which the poet takes on the narrative voice of Muhammad Ali. The New York Times Book Review has said that "Alexander creates intellectual magic in poem after poem." In this stunning collection, she furthers her reputation as a vital and vivid poetic voice keenly attuned to our ideas of race, gender, politics, and motherhood.

Book Details
Publisher:
Graywolf Press
ISBN:
9781555973544
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Authors:
Elizabeth Alexander
Published Date:
2001-09-01
Language:
English
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About Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander delivered the inaugural poem Praise Song for the Day at President Obama's inauguration in 2009. Born in New York City, she received a BA from Yale University, an MA from Boston University, and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Her collections include The Venus Hottentot (1990), American Sublime (Graywolf Press, 2005), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990–2010 (Graywolf Press, 2010). She is president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and formerly chaired the African American Studies department at Yale University.

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