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Power and Possibility Elizabeth Alexander

Power and Possibility By Elizabeth Alexander

Power and Possibility by Elizabeth Alexander


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A collection of essays, reviews, and essays, which focuses on African American artistic production, particularly poetry, and the cultural contexts in which it is created and experienced. It is divided into the following sections: Black Arts 101; Black Feminist Thinking; and, Talking.

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Power and Possibility: Essays, Reviews and Interviews by Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander is considered one of the country's most gifted contemporary poets, and the publication of her essays in The Black Interior in 2004 established her as an astute critic and cultural commentator as well. Arnold Rampersad has called Alexander one of the brightest stars in our literary sky...a superb, invaluable commentator on the American scene. In this new collection of her essays, reviews, and essays, Alexander again focuses on African American artistic production, particularly poetry, and the cultural contexts in which it is created and experienced. The book's first section, Black Arts 101, takes up the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sterling Brown, Lucille Clifton, Gwendolyn Brooks and Rita Dove (among others); artist Romare Bearden, dancer Bill T. Jones, and dramatist August Wilson. A second section, Black Feminist Thinking, provides engaging meditations ranging from Considering My Grandmother's Hair and A Very Short History of Black Women and Food to essays on the legacies of Toni Cade, Audre Lorde, and June Jordan. The collection's final section, Talking, includes interviews, a commencement address Black Graduation and the essay Africa and the World.

About Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander is an award-winning poet whose collections include Antebellum Dream Book, Body of Life, and The Venus Hottentot. She is currently a fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University and a faculty member at the Cave Canem Poetry Workshop.

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CIN0472069373VG
9780472069378
0472069373
Power and Possibility: Essays, Reviews and Interviews by Elizabeth Alexander
Used - Very Good
Paperback
The University of Michigan Press
20070830
200
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