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Author:	Elizabeth Alexander	Publisher:	Graywolf Pr
ISBN-10:	155597354X	Subject:	POETRY
ISBN-13:	9781555973544	Topic:	--
Format:	Paperback	Language:	English
Publication Year:	2001	Condition:	Good
Special Attributes:	--

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Many forms are utilized in this collection of poems on various topics including motherhood and African-American history. While this collection contains several poems in honor of African American celebrities, such as Muhammad Ali, Toni Morrison, and Richard Pryor, its most powerful moments come when the subject is more anonymous. Elizabeth Alexander's gorgeous verses take us into the soul of a prisoner, a neighborhood and, most memorably, a new mother. Alexander shows a remarkable talent for fluctuating between the social and the individual--her tiny observations hit with such truth, they open up towards the eternal.
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Length:	92 pages
Height:	9.0 in.
Width:	6.3 in.
Thickness:	0.2 in.
Weight:	6.4 oz.

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Offers a collection of poems with themes ranging from race, memory, and Southern culture to African American celebrities including Richard Pryor, Muhammad Ali, and Nat King Cole.
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"In narratives sweetened by the lyric pulse and pierced through by felicitous turns of irony, Alexander chronicles the world of 'black and tan.' Her poems bristle with the irresistible quality of a world seen fresh." Washington Post Book World - Rita Dove (09/23/2001) "ANTEBELLUM DREAM BOOK sports the page-turning pull of a good story, the intimacy of personal verse, and an unforced braininess that so few smart poets can get right." Washington Post Book World - J. Clayton (10/21/2001) "ANTEBELLUM DREAM BOOK moves as if Alexander breathlessly awoke in the middle of the night and jotted down her somnolent wanderings in verse form...Elizabeth Alexander's poems are deftly pared down, engagingly readable, and impressively generous in their coverage of historical and popular figures...With the exodus of the '90s, critics and writers alike have cheered for the exhausted end of multiculturalism. ANTEBELLUM DREAM BOOK is a welcome respite. It is an exhilarating turn of events to see a young poet like Elizabeth Alexander (along with contemporaries like Kevin Young, Mark McMorris, and Claudia Rankine) who, in the post-Baraka, post-Baldwin, post-Black Power years, is surefootedly treading more complicated territories related to race." Voice Literary Supplement "Alexander is an unusual thing, a sensualist of history, a romanticist of race ('memory is romance/and race is romance'). She weaves biography, history, experience, pop culture and dream. Her poems make the public and private dance together; the '60s appear mediated by the child's memory and the TV screen...To adopt this studied naiveté is to run a risk. Alexander obviously knows this, and her poems move impressively, consciously, in and out of their elected limitations...[T]he lyric subject emerges here as an embodied, historical presence with memories and futures, desires and fears, its identities given, made, inherited and pondered, all in a swift, inventive, flexible demotic." Chicago Tribune Books - Maureen McLane (02/10/2002)

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Product Category : Books
ISBN : 155597354X
Title : Antebellum Dream Book: Poems
EAN : 9781555973544
Authors : Elizabeth Alexander
Binding : Paperback
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Publication Date : 2001-09-01
Pages : 96
List Price (MSRP) : 14.00
Height : 0.4900 inches
Width : 5.9300 inches
Length : 8.8600 inches
Weight : 0.3900 pounds
Keywords : 20th Century, General, United States, Paperback
Condition : Good

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