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We invite you to come hear her read from her new collection.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.25pt'><em><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010</span></em><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'> gathers twenty pages of new poetry, including her inaugural poem "Praise Song for the Day," along with generous selections from her previous work. The result is the most definitive volume to date by this American master.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.25pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>"Alexander is an unusual thing, a sensualist of history, a romanticist of race. She weaves biography, history, experience, pop culture and dream. Her poems make the public and private dance together." -- Chicago Tribune <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.25pt'><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Elizabeth Alexander'</span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>s collections of poetry include <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>American Sublime</span></em>, <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Antebellum Dream Book</span></em>, <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The Venus Hottentot</span></em>, and <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Body of Life</span></em>. 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