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American sublime : poems
- Title
- American sublime : poems / Elizabeth Alexander.
- Author
- Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962-
- Publication
- St. Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2005.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- 93 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- African Americans > Poetry
- Contents
- I. American blue -- Emancipation -- Little slave narrative #1: master -- Ellipsis -- Smile -- Kitchen portraits, 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 -- Conque redux -- The last quatrain -- IV: American sublime -- American sublime -- Tanner's Annunciation.
- Call Number
- Sc D 06-1410
- ISBN
- 1555974325 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2005926522
- OCLC
- 61757563
- Author
- Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962-
- Title
- American sublime : poems / Elizabeth Alexander.
- Imprint
- St. Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2005.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 06-1410