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Elizabeth Alexander Stats: The most read book by Elizabeth Alexander on Book Notification is The Light of the World, a Non-Fiction book.

Below is a complete list of Elizabeth Alexander books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of Collections in Publication Order

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1
The Venus Hottentot
1990
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2
Body of Life
1997
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3
Antebellum Dream Book
2001
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4
American Sublime
2005
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5
American Blue
2006
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6
Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies & Little Misses of Color (With: Marilyn Nelson)
2007
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7
Praise Song for the Day
2009
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8
Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010
2010
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List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

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1
The Black Interior
2004
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2
Power and Possibility
2007
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The Light of the World
2015
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4
The Trayvon Generation
2022
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List of American Poets Project Books in Publication Order

Highlights classic and modern American poetry, featuring works by renowned poets in carefully selected editions.

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1
Walt Whitman (By: Walt Whitman)
1892
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2
Edgar Allan Poe (By: Richard Wilbur)
1909
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3
Theodore Roethke ( By: Theodore Roethke)
1969
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4
A. R. Ammons (By: David Lehman, A.R. Ammons)
1977
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5
William Carlos Williams (By: William Carlos Williams)
1984
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6
Edna St. Vincent Millay (By: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
1991
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7
Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems (By: Carl Sandburg)
1996
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8
Yvor Winters (By: Thom Gunn, Yvor Winters)
1999
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9
Karl Shapiro (By: John Updike, Karl Shapiro)
2003
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10
Poets of World War II (By: Various Various, Harvey Shapiro)
2003
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11
American Wits (By: John Hollander)
2003
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12
John Greenleaf Whittier (By: John Greenleaf Whittier)
2004
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13
Kenneth Fearing (By: Robert Polito, Kenneth Fearing)
2004
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14
Muriel Rukeyser (By: Muriel Rukeyser)
2004
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15
John Berryman (By: Kevin Young, John Berryman)
2004
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16
Poets of the Civil War ( By: J.D. McClatchy)
2005
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17
Emma Lazarus (By: Emma Lazarus)
2005
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18
Edith Wharton ( By: Edith Wharton)
2005
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19
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (With: Gwendolyn Brooks)
2005
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20
Cole Porter (By: Robert Kimball, Cole Porter)
2006
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21
Louis Zukofsky (By: Louis Zukofsky, Charles Bernstein)
2006
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22
Kenneth Koch (By: Ron Padgett, Kenneth Koch)
2007
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23
American Sonnets (By: David Bromwich)
2007
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24
James Agee (By: James Agee, Andrew Hudgins)
2008
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25
Poems from the Women's Movement (By: Honor Moore)
2009
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26
Ira Gershwin (By: Robert Kimball, Ira Gershwin)
2009
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27
Lyrics of the First Great Popular Songs (By: Stephen Collins Foster, Ken Emerson)
2010
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28
Countee Cullen (By: Major Jackson, Countee Cullen)
2010
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29
Amy Lowell (By: Honor Moore)
2012
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List of Poets on Poetry Books in Publication Order

Offers lively, pointed critiques and personal insights on poetry.

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1
Four Poets on Poetry (By: Don Cameron Allen)
1959
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2
Modern Russian Poets on Poetry (By: Carl R. Proffer)
1976
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3
Goatfoot Milktongue Twinbird: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry, 1970-76 (By: Donald Hall)
1978
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4
Walking Down the Stairs: Selections from Interviews (By: Galway Kinnell)
1978
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5
Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation (By: William Stafford)
1978
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6
To Make a Prairie: Essays on Poets, Poetry, and Country Living (By: Maxine Kumin)
1980
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7
Open Between Us (By: David Ignatow, Ralph J. Mills)
1980
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8
Thinking About Morality ) (By: William K. Frankena)
1980
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9
Talking All Morning (By: Robert Bly)
1980
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10
Pot Shots at Poetry (By: Robert Francis)
1981
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11
The Old Poetries and the New (By: Richard Kostelanetz)
1981
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12
A Company of Poets (By: Louis Simpson)
1981
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13
Don't Ask (By: Philip Levine)
1981
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14
Living Off the Country: Essays on Poetry and Place (By: John Meade Haines)
1982
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15
The Weather for Poetry: Essays, Reviews, and Notes on Poetry, 1977-81 (By: Donald Hall)
1982
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16
Claims for Poetry (By: Donald Hall)
1982
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17
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 (By: Philip Larkin)
1983
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18
Parti-Colored Blocks for a Quilt (By: Marge Piercy)
1983
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19
Collected Prose (By: James Wright, Anne Wright)
1983
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20
Writing Like a Woman (By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker)
1983
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21
Old Snow Just Melting: Essays and Interviews (By: Marvin Bell)
1983
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22
A Ballet for the Ear: Interviews, Essays, and Reviews (By: A. Poulin Jr., John Logan)
1983
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23
Platonic Scripts (By: Donald Justice)
1984
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24
Effluences from the Sacred Caves: More Selected Essays and Reviews (By: Hayden Carruth)
1984
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25
A Local Habitation: Essays on Poetry ) (By: John Frederick Nims)
1985
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26
No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose (By: Anne Sexton)
1985
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27
You Must Revise Your Life (By: William Stafford)
1986
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28
A Concert of Tenses: Essays on Poetry (By: Tess Gallagher)
1986
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29
Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982--88 (By: Donald Hall)
1988
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30
Reviews and Essays, 1936-55 (By: James Reidel, Weldon Kees)
1988
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31
Halflife: Improvisations and Interviews, 1977-87 (By: Charles Wright)
1988
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32
Curiosities (By: William Matthews)
1989
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33
Poetry Beat: Reviewing the Eighties (By: Tom Clark)
1990
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34
Speaking of Writing: Selected Hopwood Lectures (By: Nicholas Delbanco)
1990
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35
Wonderful Words, Silent Truth ( By: Charles Simic)
1990
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36
Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry (By: James McCorkle)
1990
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37
Poems Are Hard to Read (By: William Meredith)
1990
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38
Predecessors, Et Cetera: Essays (By: Amy Clampitt)
1991
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39
The Line Forms Here (By: David Lehman)
1992
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40
Suicides and Jazzers (By: Hayden Carruth)
1993
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41
Words to Create a World (By: Daniel Hoffman)
1993
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42
Plow Naked (By: Fred Chappell)
1993
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43
Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs, and an Interview (By: Thom Gunn)
1993
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44
Tales Out of School: Selected Interviews (By: Robert Creeley)
1993
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45
Eloquence and Mere Life: Essays on the Art of Poetry (By: Alan Williamson)
1994
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46
Richer Entanglements: Essays and Notes on Poetry and Poems (By: Gregory Orr)
1994
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47
The Unemployed Fortune-Teller ( By: Charles Simic)
1995
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48
The Judge Is Fury: Dislocation and Form in Poetry (By: Mary Kinzie)
1995
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49
Death to the Death of Poetry (By: Donald Hall)
1995
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50
Poetry Now - Poets on Poetry (By: Kerrie Pateman)
1995
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51
Poetry's Old Air (By: Marianne Boruch)
1995
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52
The Big Question (By: David Lehman)
1995
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53
Robert Lowell's Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur (By: Richard W. Tillinghast)
1995
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54
Quarter Notes: Improvisations and Interviews (By: Charles Wright)
1996
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55
The Art of Poetry (By: Kenneth Koch)
1996
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56
The Spiral of Memory (By: Joy Harjo, Laura Coltelli)
1996
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57
Trying to Say It: Outlooks and Insights on How Poems Happen (By: Philip Booth)
1996
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58
A World That Will Hold All the People (By: Suzanne Gardinier)
1996
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59
The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose (By: Elizabeth Spires, Josephine Jacobsen)
1997
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60
A Commonplace Book (By: Douglas Crase)
1997
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61
Guns and Boyhood in America: A Memoir of Growing Up in the 50s (By: Jonathan Holden)
1997
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62
The Long Schoolroom: Lessons in the Bitter Logic of the Poetic Principle (By: Allen Grossman)
1997
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63
Women and Poetry: Truth, Autobiography, and the Shape of the Self (By: Carol Muske-Dukes)
1997
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64
The Glass Anvil (By: Andrew Hudgins)
1997
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65
Orphan Factory ( By: Charles Simic)
1997
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66
Five looks at Elizabeth Bishop (By: Anne Stevenson)
1998
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67
Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation (By: William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon)
1998
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68
Poetry and Consciousness (By: C.K. Williams)
1998
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69
An Introduction to Rhyme (By: Peter Dale)
1998
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70
Made with Words ( By: May Swenson)
1998
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71
All the Rage (By: William Logan)
1998
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72
An Introduction to Geoffrey Hill (By: W.S. Milne)
1998
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73
Between the Iceberg and the Ship: Selected Essays (By: Anne Stevenson)
1998
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74
The Poetry of Everyday Life (By: John Hollander)
1998
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75
Soul Barnacles: Ten More Years with Ray (By: Tess Gallagher, Greg Simon)
1999
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76
The Route as Briefed (By: James Vincent Tate)
1999
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77
Bardic Deadlines: Reviewing Poetry, 1984-95 (By: Geoffrey Paul O'Brien)
1999
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78
Responsive Reading (By: Edward Hirsch)
1999
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79
Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (By: Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus)
2000
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80
Poetry at One Remove (By: John Koethe)
2000
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81
Dancing at the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic (By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker)
2000
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82
Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams (By: Rachel Hadas)
2000
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83
The Straight Line: Writing on Poetry and Poets (By: Ron Padgett)
2000
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84
The Gazer Within (By: James Marshall, Larry Levis, Andrew Miller, David St John, John Venable)
2001
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85
The Poetry Blues: Essays and Interviews (By: Stanley Plumly, William Matthews, Sebastian Matthews)
2001
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86
Further Requirements: Interviews, Broadcasts, Statements and Book Reviews, 1952-85 (By: Philip Larkin)
2001
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87
Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry (By: Linda Gregerson)
2001
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88
Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry (By: Mark Jarman)
2002
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89
A Boundless Field: American Poetry at Large (By: Stephen Yenser)
2002
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90
The Castle of Perseverance (By: Thomas M. Disch)
2002
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91
So Ask: Essays, Conversations, and Interviews (By: Philip Levine)
2002
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92
Song for Uncle Tom, Tonto, and Mr. Moto: Poetry and Identity (By: David Alan Mura)
2002
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93
A Fly in the Soup: Memoirs (By: Charles Simic)
2003
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94
The Metaphysician in the Dark (By: Charles Simic)
2003
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95
Barrier of a Common Language: An American Looks at Contemporary British Poetry (By: Dana Gioia)
2003
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96
The Answers Are Inside the Mountains: Meditations on the Writing Life (By: William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon)
2003
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97
Fables of Representation (By: Paul Hoover)
2004
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98
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Selected Prose (By: John Ashbery)
2004
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99
Poetry and What is Real (By: Richard W. Tillinghast)
2004
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100
Memory Piano ( By: Charles Simic)
2006
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101
The Passionate Spectator: Essays on Art and Poetry (By: John Yau)
2006
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102
The Failure of Poetry, The Promise of Language (By: Laura (Riding) Jackson, John Nolan)
2007
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103
Power and Possibility
2007
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104
Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes (By: Ed Dorn, Joseph Richey, Peter Michelson)
2007
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105
Atlas: Selected Essays, 1989-2007 (By: Alfred Corn)
2008
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106
Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry (By: Reginald Shepherd)
2008
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107
On Burning Ground (By: Sandra M. Gilbert)
2009
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108
Set in Motion: Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues (By: A.R. Ammons, Zofia Burr)
2009
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109
Poetics of Dislocation (By: Meena Alexander)
2009
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110
The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self (By: Annie Ridley Crane Finch)
2010
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111
Coming After: Essays on Poetry (By: Alice Notley)
2010
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112
A Martian Muse (By: Reginald Shepherd, Robert Philen)
2010
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113
The Lover of a Subversive Is Also a Subversive (By: Martín Espada)
2010
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114
Orange Alert (By: Mohammed Kazim Ali)
2010
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115
Unauthorized Voices (By: Marilyn Hacker)
2010
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116
Two Minds of a Western Poet (By: David Mason)
2011
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117
The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose (By: Lawrence Joseph)
2011
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118
Noise That Stays Noise: Essays (By: Cole Swensen)
2011
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119
Available Surfaces: Essays on Poesis (By: T.R. Hummer)
2012
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120
Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory (By: Natasha Sajé)
2014
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121
Yes, There Will Be Singing (By: Marilyn Krysl)
2014
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122
Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems (By: Boojkdl ajdp, David Baker)
2014
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123
The Necropastoral (By: Joyelle McSweeney)
2014
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124
From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry (By: David Wojahn)
2015
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125
Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand (By: Bruce Bond)
2015
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126
Resident Alien: On Border-crossing and the Undocumented Divine (By: Kazim Ali)
2015
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127
The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks (By: Aaron Shurin)
2016
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128
How Long Have You Been With Us?: Essays on Poetry (By: Khaled Mattawa)
2016
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129
Condition Red: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (By: Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus)
2017
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130
The Little Death of Self: Nine Essays toward Poetry (By: Marianne Boruch)
2017
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131
The Mirror Diary: Selected Essays (By: Garrett Hongo)
2017
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132
Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition: Toward a 21st Century Poetics (By: Rigoberto González)
2017
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133
Ecstatic Émigré: An Ethics of Practice (By: Claudia Keelan)
2018
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134
Someone Shot My Book (By: Julie Carr)
2018
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135
The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance (By: Philip Metres)
2018
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136
The Underground Poetry Metro Transportation System for Souls: Essays on the Cultural Life of Poetry (By: Tony Hoagland)
2019
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137
From the Valley of Bronze Camels (By: Jane Miller)
2022
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138
A Beat Beyond (By: Major Jackson, Amor Kohli)
2022
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139
Working Time: Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel (By: Lucy Jane Miller)
2022
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140
To Go Into the Words (By: Norman Finkelstein)
2023
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141
Ghosts and the Overplus (By: Christina Pugh)
2024
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142
Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It) (By: Nathaniel Perry)
2024
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143
How to Draw a Circle (By: Dan Beachy-Quick)
2024
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List of Elizabeth Alexander Anthologies in Publication Order

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1
Ploughshares Spring 1996
1996
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Ploughshares Spring 2002
2002
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Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania
2005
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Reel Verse
2019
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Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander was born on May 30th, 1962 and is currently 63 years old. Elizabeth Alexander was born in New York City.

Elizabeth Alexander is the author of 8 Collections. The first collection published was The Venus Hottentot, in 1990. The most recently published collection was Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010 which was released in 2010. There are no upcoming collections.

Elizabeth Alexander has also written 4 Non-Fiction Books, including The Black Interior and Power and Possibility.

Elizabeth Alexander: Awards & Accolades

Alexander's book, The Trayvon Generation was nominated for the Goodreads Awards, Best Nonfiction, in 2022.

Elizabeth Alexander: Lists & Other Mentions

  • The Light of the World was an Ex Libris: 100 Books to Read and Reread Selection in 2020.
  • The Trayvon Generation was a Time Magazine: 100 Must-Read Books Selection in 2022 and a New York Times: 100 Notable Books Selection in 2022.

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Elizabeth Alexander: F.A.Q

When was Elizabeth Alexander Born? How old is Elizabeth Alexander?

Elizabeth Alexander was born on May 30th, 1962. Elizabeth Alexander is currently 63 years old.

Where was Elizabeth Alexander Born?

Elizabeth Alexander was born in New York City, .

What was the first book Elizabeth Alexander wrote?

The first book written by Elizabeth Alexander was The Venus Hottentot, published in 1990.

What was the most recent book Elizabeth Alexander wrote?

Their most recently released work was The Trayvon Generation on April 5th, 2022.

What is the most popular book by Elizabeth Alexander?

Based on the number of readers on Book Notification, the most popular Elizabeth Alexander book is The Light of the World. Here are their most popular books:
  1. The Light of the World (7)

Are there upcoming new books by Elizabeth Alexander?

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How many books has Elizabeth Alexander written?

Elizabeth Alexander has written 13 books excluding contributions to anthologies. 1 book in the American Poets Project Series, 4 Non-Fiction Books, 8 Collections, 1 book in the Poets on Poetry Series.

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