Research Catalog

Title

Antebellum dream book : poems / by Elizabeth Alexander.

Author

Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962-

Publication

Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2001.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

92 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

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.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Dreams in literature
• Poetry > Women authors
• American poetry > African American authors
• American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Fugue -- Elegy -- Overture: Watermelon City -- Early Cinema -- Paul Says -- Hosea Williams -- Georgia Postcard -- Visitor -- Geraniums -- Islands Number Four -- Nat Turner Dreams of Insurrection -- Race -- Gravitas -- Baby -- Lament -- Crash -- Nat King Cole on the Amalfi Drive -- The Toni Morrison Dreams -- "The female seer will burn upon this pyre" -- War -- Hostage -- Tour Guide -- Untitled -- Clean -- Peccant -- Papi Lindo vs The Beautiful Man -- Saber-Toothed -- Conch Chowder -- Pig -- Rollerblade, Inc. -- The Creole Cat -- Opiate -- Movie Star -- Receta Culinaria -- Tomato -- After the Gig: Mick Jagger -- Postpartum Dream #2: Folk Art -- Postpartum Dream #8 -- Postpartum Dream #12: Appointment -- Evidence -- The Party -- Orange -- Life as Dinner Party -- Visitation -- Feminist Poem Number One -- Your Ex-Girlfriend -- Gift -- Narrative: Ali -- Neonatology.

ISBN

155597354X (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2001088670

OCLC

47990136

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library