Sylvia Plath is setting my hair …
Elizabeth Alexander
We pull off …
Poetry, I tell my students, …
My first week in Cambridge a car full of white boys …
I am the last woman off of the plane …
According to Mister Hedges, the custodian …
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Each day we go about our business, …
Fish-man comes with trout and fresh crabs: …
Sometimes I thinkSometimes I think In a 2001 interview, Elizabeth Alexander noted, “As for the ‘banner headline’, ‘Race’, I always loved the way that my grandfather, and to a lesser extent my parents, used the word race to talk about ‘the race’ — meaning, of course, black people — as a thing that they could imagine, a body of people that we could imagine, that you could almost get your arms around, that the race was something tangible and palpable.” about Great-Uncle Paul who left Tuskegee, …
Hard to picture, but these Goliath trees …
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