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She was, I believe, the youngest poet in Rebel Angels and at least began as a formalist. I must admit I haven't kept up with her work.

Sam, do you have any of her work available?

HERE'S A LINK to bio and three poems from the Academy of American Poets.



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She has a home page, with a link marked "Poems."
http://www.elizabethalexander.net/home.html

I think that some of her stuff is interesting. I'll read more. Thanks Maryann.

A review notes that her last book contains sonnets, and a review of her prvious book called it "a return to form - in fact, to many forms."

I've read about five: prosaic.

Nothing here knocking me sideways.

Bob

sunshades, looking for the way the sun is red
noise,

Hard to find a worse enjambment. Am I in a bad mood?

Shameless

Robert-

Well, if you're in a bad mood, so am I. What's up with people from Yale publishing whatever kind of crap they want cos they're from Yale? It's sickening. And her stuff is full of that kind of enjambment.

I'm quite harsh about enjambment but I thought there was a good feeling for sound and some intelligent ideas. I haven't read much yet. I rather liked her Stravinsky poem.

I've read about six or seven. All fur coat and no knickers as my old granny used to say. I agree with Janet that the Stravinsky one is better than the others I've read. I'm trying to imagine a context in which I would say 'naked buttocks'.

Charlotte Bronte said, 'Wow, sisters, what a man!
He laid me face down on the ottoman.
Now Don't you and Em'ly
Go telling the fem'ly,
But he smacked me upon my bare bottom, Ann!'

Pity they don't ask Conquest to read at Obama's thingy. By the way my Daily Telegraph has a picture of the man smoking with a hat on. Quite made me warm to him.

Sam, Rafael Campo (born 1964), Rachel Wetzsteon (1967) and Greg Williamson (1964), all in Rebel Angels, are younger than Alexander. (And better poets, in my opinion.)