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Elizabeth Alexander: The Black Interior
April 21, 2004
Elizabeth Alexander poet, screen writer

Poet Elizabeth Alexander explores a wide spectrum of contemporary African-American artistic life through literature, paintings, film and popular media, and discusses its place in current culture. In a collection that includes her much-heralded essay on Rodney King, she looks at "black life and creativity behind the public face of stereotype and limited imagination."

Culture & Identity | Literature & Philosophy | People & Places
Literary | prejudice | Rodney King | African American | Fiction | Poetry | North American | Race
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Image of Power and Possibility: Essays, Reviews, and Interviews (Poets on Poetry)
Author: Elizabeth Alexander
Publisher: University of Michigan Press (2007)
Binding: Paperback, 208 pages
Image of Antebellum Dream Book
Author: Elizabeth Alexander
Publisher: Graywolf Press (2001)
Binding: Paperback, 96 pages
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