American Sublime Poems

Name: American Sublime Poems
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ISBN: 9781555974329

ISBN-10: 1555974325

ISBN-13: 9781555974329

Edition: 2005

Authors: Elizabeth Alexander

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A brilliant new collection by Elizabeth Alexander, whose "poems bristle with the irresistible quality of a world seen fresh" (Rita Dove, "The Washington Post) "Too many people have seen too much "and lived to tell, or not tell, or tell "with their silent, patterned bodies, "their glass eyes, gone legs, flower-printed flesh . . . -from "Notes From" In 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…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication date: 10/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Emancipation


Little slave narrative #1 : master


Ellipsis


Smile


Kitchen portrait, 1971


Tina Green


When


Five elegies


Morning, Gordontown


Claustrous Euphobia


The end


Matrimonio


Krishna denies eating mud


Ode


Stray


Fried apples


The dream that I told my mother-in-law


Black poets talk about the dead


Notes from


The African picnic


First word of the mass for the dead


Autumn passage


Ars Poetica #10 : crossing over


Ars Poetica #1,002 : rally


Ars Poetica #17 : first Afro-American esperantist


Ars Poetica #28 : African leave-taking disorder


Ars Poetica #3 : ablutions


Ars Poetica #85 : Modjadji V the rain queen dies in South Africa at 64


Ars Poetica #23 : "whassup G?"


Ars Poetica #21 : graduate study of literature


Ars Poetica #227 : provenance


Ars Poetica #92 : Marcus Garvey on elocution


Ars Poetica #56 : "bullfrogs was falling out of the sky"


Ars Poetica #16 : lot


Ars Poetica #13 : the idea of ancestry


Ars Poetica #2 : christening


Ars Poetica #336 : rose-colored glasses


Ars Poetica #66 : how to


Ars Poetica #37 : patriarchy


Ars Poetica #100 : I believe


Ars Poetica #88 : sublime


Amistad


The blue whale


Absence


Boy haiku


Poro Society


Approach


Connecticut


Other cargo


Education


The Yale men


Teacher


Translator


Physiognomy


Constitutional


Mende vocabulary


The girls


Kere's song


Judge Judson


In cursive


God


Waiting for Cinque to speak


The Amistad trail


Cinque Redux


The last quatrain


American sublime


Tanner's Annunciation