The first career retrospective by the award-winning poet Elizabeth
Alexander, including her poem delivered at Barack Obama's presidential
inauguration
We crave radiance in this austere world,
light in the spiritual darkness.
Learning is the one perfect religion,
its path correct, narrow, certain, straight.
** --from "Allegiance"**
Over twenty years, Elizabeth Alexander has become one of America's most
exciting and important poets, and her selection as the inaugural poet by
President Obama confirmed her place as one of the indispensable voices
of our time. Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010 gathers
twenty pages of new poetry, along with generous selections from her
previous work. The result is the definitive volume to date by this
American master.