Body of Life [Paperback]

Elizabeth Alexander (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 13, 1997

poetry by the author of THE VENUS HOTTENTOT

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About the Author

Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher born in New York City and raised in Washington, DC. Alexander has degrees from Yale University and Boston University and completed her Ph.D. in English at the University of Pennsylvania. She has published five books of poems, including The Venus Hottentot (1990), Body of Life (1996), Antebellum Dream Book (2001), and American Sublime (2005), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and an American Library Association's "Notable Books of the Year." Most recently she published her first young adult collection (co-authored with Marilyn Nelson), Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color (2008 Connecticut Book Award). Her two collections of essays are The Black Interior (2004) and Power and Possibility (2007). Alexander is also the 2007 winner of the first Jackson Prize for Poetry, awarded by Poets and Writers. She currently teaches in the Department African American Studies at Yale University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 85 pages
• Publisher: Tia Chucha Press; 1st edition (January 13, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1882688120
• ISBN-13: 978-1882688128
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,792,440 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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