... 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.

Alexander...eloquently writes about the importance of bearing witness to the violence directed against Black people in the United States.

Poet and memoirist Alexander...deftly blends family history and cultural criticism in this bittersweet essay collection on race, memory, and memorialization.

... vigorous and inspiring.

An artful book-length essay on generational trauma in Black youth.