American sublime : poems / Elizabeth Alexander.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962-
Language:English
Published: St. Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, [2005], ©2005.
Physical Description:93 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
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.