Venus Hottentot

Name: Venus Hottentot
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ISBN: 9781555973926

ISBN-10: 1555973922

ISBN-13: 9781555973926

Edition: 2004

Authors: Elizabeth Alexander

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Elizabeth Alexander's highly praised first collection is available once again I didn't want to write a poem that said "blackness is," because we know better than anyone that we are not one or ten or ten thousand things Not one poem -from "Today's News" Originally published in 1990 to widespread acclaim, The Venus Hottentot introduces Elizabeth Alexander's vital poetic voice, distinguished even in this remarkable first book by its examination of history, gender, and race with an uncommon clarity and music. These poems range from personal memory to cultural history to human personae: John Coltrane, Frida Kahlo, Nelson Mandela, and "The Venus Hottentot," a nineteenth-century African woman…

Book details

List price: $14.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication date: 1/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 64
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.220
Language: English



The Venus Hottentot


West Indian Primer


Ode


Ladders


Zodiac


The Dirt-Eaters


Who I Think You Are


House Party Sonnet: '66


Nineteen


Omni - Albert Murray


Robeson at Rutgers


Van Der Zec


Bearden


Deadwood Dick


John Col


Painting


Monet at Giverny


Farewell to You


Penmanship


Letter: Blues


Boston Year


Kevin of the N. E. Crew


Four Bongos: Take a Train


"Radio Days"


Miami Footnote


"Ala"


A Poem for Nelson Mandela


Today's News


Preliminary Sketches: Philadelphia