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9781555975685

Crave Radiance New and Selected Poems 1990-2010

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  • ISBN13:

    9781555975685

  • ISBN10:

    1555975682

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-09-28
  • Publisher: Graywolf Press

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The first career retrospective by the award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander, including her poem delivered at Barack Obama's presidential inauguration We crave radiance in this austere world, light in the spiritual darkness. Learning is the one perfect religion, its path correct, narrow, certain, straight. from "Allegiance"Over twenty years, Elizabeth Alexander has become one of America's most exciting and important poets, and her selection as the inaugural poet by President Obama confirmed her place as one of the indispensable voices of our time.Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 19902010gathers twenty pages of new poetry, along with generous selections from her previous work. The result is the definitive volume to date by this American master.

Author Biography

Elizabeth Alexander is the author of five previous books of poetry, including American Sublime, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and two books of essays, including The Black Interior. She is the chair of the African American Studies Department at Yale University.

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Praise for Elizabeth Alexander:

“Alexander is an unusual thing, a sensualist of history, a romanticist of race. She weaves biography, history, experience, pop culture and dream. Her poems make the public and private dance together.” —Chicago Tribune

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