In surprising turns through different American cities, mindsets, and eras, and through the strange rhythms of dreaming, the celebrated poet Elizabeth Alexander composes her own kind of improvisational jazz. Antebellum Dream Book offers a music of resistances as well as soaring flights of fancy: the conflicts of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and after; a mother's struggle to see through a postpartum fog; a vision in which the poet takes on the narrative voice of Muhammad Ali. The New York Times Book Review has said that Alexander creates intellectual magic in poem after poem. In this stunning collection, she furthers her reputation as a vital and vivid poetic voice keenly attuned to our ideas of race, gender, politics, and motherhood.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 09/01/2001
ISBN: 9781555973544
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 8.86h x 5.93w x 0.49d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/23/2001 pg. 68
Booklist 09/01/2001 pg. 44
Essence 11/01/2001 pg. 86
Black Issues Book Review 11/01/2001 pg. 44
Library Journal 11/01/2001 pg. 118
Booklist 12/15/2001 pg. 712
Library Journal 01/01/2002 pg. 108