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American Blue Elizabeth Alexander

American Blue par Elizabeth Alexander

American Blue Elizabeth Alexander

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Résumé

Elizabeth Alexander is a leading American poet whose work has been inspired by history, literature, art and music to the 'rich infinity' of the African-American experience. This title covers subjects ranging from slave rebellions, the Civil Rights movement, Muhammed Ali and Toni Morrison, to the lives of jazz musicians and the 'Venus Hottentot'.

American Blue Résumé

American Blue: Selected Poems Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander is a leading American poet whose work has been inspired by a wide range of influence, from history, literature, art and music to the 'rich infinity' of the African-American experience. Her's is a vital and vivid poetic voice on race, gender, politics and motherhood. American Blue is her first British publication. Many of her poems bring history alive and singing into the present in highly musical, sharply contemporary narratives, which use many different forms and voices to cover subjects ranging from slave rebellions, the Civil Rights movement, Muhammed Ali and Toni Morrison to the lives of jazz musicians and the 'Venus Hottentot', a 19th-century African woman exhibited at carnivals.

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'Alexander has an instinct for turning her profound cultural vision into one that illuminates universal experience.' - Clarence Major. '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. Race is present in her poems in the way that sex, class, age, even weather are present in all of our lives' - Rita Dove, Washington Post. '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. 'Alexander uses exquisite care and delicacy to explore turbulent times and feelings, Bravo!' - Ntozake Shange. 'Alexander explores tensions inherent in gender and race and expresses the ambivalence of motherhood in jazz-inflected tones' - Elle.

À propos de Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander is a leading American poet whose work has been inspired by a wide range of influence, from history, literature, art and music, dreams and stories to the rich infinity of the African American experience. In January 2009 she read the inaugural poem for the swearing-in of President Barack Obama. She was born in New York City and grew up in Washington, DC. She is a poet, essayist, playwright, teacher and scholar of African-American literature and culture, and has given readings and lectures on African-American literature and culture in many countries. She has published four poetry collections in the States: The Venus Hottentot (1990), Body of Life (1996), Antebellum Dream Book (2001) and American Sublime (2005), a Pulitzer finalist. Her first British publication, American Blue: Selected Poems (2006), draws on all these. Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies & Little Misses of Color, a collaboration with poet Marilyn Nelson and artist Floyd Cooper, was published by Worksong in 2007. She has also published two collections of essays, a play, and a memoir, The Light of the World (2015). Elizabeth Alexander is currently the Director of Creativity and Free Expression at the Ford Foundation. She is the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, and previously served as on the faculty of Yale University for 15 years, including her tenure as chair of the African American Studies Department.

Informations supplémentaires

GOR005863549
9781852247300
1852247304
American Blue: Selected Poems Elizabeth Alexander
Elizabeth Alexander
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
20060427
144
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