The Toni Morrison Dreams | Critical Overview

As of 2005, Alexander has produced three books of poetry. The first, The Venus Hottentot, published in 1990, is, according to a reviewer for Publishers Weekly (July 23, 2001), “a stellar debut.” However, that work was followed by the less impressive Body of Life (1996), which the same reviewer calls “a relative slump.” Antebellum Dream Book, in this reviewer’s opinion is first rate, its poems are “aggressively vivid” and “impressive.” This reviewer also points out that this book is published by the well-funded Graywolf Press, affording the...

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