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Author:
Elizabeth Alexander
Publisher:
Grand Central Publishing
Date:
April 5, 2022
The poet and author of The Light of the World offers a meditation on the power of art and culture to illuminate America's unresolved problem with race and racism, expanding upon her viral New Yorker essay from which this book takes its title.
What The Reviewers Say
... a profound and lyrical meditation on race, class, justice and their intersections with art.
... in Elizabeth Alexander’s beautiful, relevant book, The Trayvon Generation, the poet redefines the proximity of Black identity to loss as an opportunity to create new rituals and a new paradigm.
How do you mark your pages when you read a book? Whatever you use, have a lot of them on hand because nearly every other paragraph of The Trayvon Generation contains a sentence or three that you’ll want to remember, to reread, or turn over in your mind.
... expands like a blanket of rain across a parched horizon.
