The first career retrospective by the award-winning poet Elizabeth
Alexander, now available in paperback
*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 Barack 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.