This Sunday night’s poet is Elizabeth Alexander. Her Antebellum Dream Book, like several of her other books, is practically a tour of American Black history, and contains a wonderful poem about one of my fellow Kentuckians, “Narrative: Ali.” It’s too long to include here, and I don’t want to excerpt it, so instead here’s “Elegy,” another poem about an American original:
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