Title: Antebellum Dream Book
First published: 2001
Description: 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.
Subjects: American poetry, History and criticism, Poetry, African Americans, Women, Dreams in literature, Women authors, African American authors, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3551.L3494 A84 2001