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American sublime : poems / Elizabeth Alexander.
LIBRA Special PS3551.L3494 A44 2005
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Van Pelt Library PS3551.L3494 A44 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 93 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- St. Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- A fourth collection of poems by the author recalls over a century of African American traditions, knitting together a blend of history, biography, personal experience, pop culture, and dreamscape.
- Contents:
- I. American blue
- 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
- II: Ars poetica
- 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
- III: Amistad
- 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
- IV: American sublime
- American sublime
- Tanner's Annunciation.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962- American sublime.
- ISBN:
- 1555974325
- 9781555974329
- OCLC:
- 61757563
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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