Will Alexander; Asia & Haiti

Series No.: NAP 17

ISBN: 1-55713-189-9, Pages: 144

American Literature, Poetry

A Sun & Moon title.

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Asia & Haiti presents two long poems by Los Angeles poet Will Alexander, which, in the broadest sense, are about the cultures, economics, politics, history, and social concerns of the title regions. But Alexander's poetry, densely imagistic and fiercely intelligent, takes these concerns into arpeggios of linguistic realms. At the same time, this poetry presents a remarkable re-writing of a history. Caught up in the vortex of surrealist vision and tornadoes of language, his words call up an American equivalent of the great Negritude poet Aimé Césaire.