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Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010 by Elizabeth Alexander

remigves's review

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

wildflower37's review

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challenging dark hopeful slow-paced

3.5

This book is closer to a 3-star rating for me, but because it includes Praise Song for the Day (the inaugural poem for Obama’s first term), I raised it to a 4. I appreciate so many of Alexander’s phrases throughout the book. Many of her poems are narrative style, which is not my preference. So, overall, lots to appreciate in this volume.
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