American sublime : poems / Elizabeth Alexander.

I. American blue
Emancipation
Little slave narrative #1: master
Ellipsis
Smile
Kitchen portraits, 1971
Tina Green
When
Five elegies
Morning, Gordontown
Claustrous euphobia
The end
Matrimonio
Krishna denies eating mud
Ode
Stray
Fried apples
The dream that I told my mother-in-law
Black poets talk about the dead
Notes from
The African picnic
First word of the mass for the dead
Autumn passage
II: Ars poetica
Ars poetica #10: crossing over
Ars poetica #1,002: rally
Ars poetica #17: first Afro-American esperantist
Ars poetica #28: African leave-taking disorder
Ars poetica #3: ablutions
Ars poetica #85: Modjadji V the rain queen dies in South Africa at 64
Ars poetica #23: "whassup G?"
Ars poetica #21: graduate study of literature
Ars poetica #227: provenance
Ars poetica #92: Marcus Garvey on elocution
Ars poetica #56: "bullfrogs was falling out of the sky"
Ars poetica #16: lot
Ars poetica #13: the idea of ancestry
Ars poetica #2: christening
Ars poetica #336: rose-colored glasses
Ars poetica #66: how to
Ars poetica #37: patriarchy
Ars poetica #100: I believe
Ars poetica #88: sublime
III: Amistad
Amistad
The blue whale
Absence
boy haiku
Poro society
Approach
Connecticut
Other cargo
Education
The Yale men
Teacher
Translator
Physiognomy
Constitutional
Mende vocabulary
The girls
Kere's song
Judge Judson
In cursive
God
Waiting for cinque to speak
The Amistad trail
Conque redux
The last quatrain
IV: American sublime
American sublime
Tanner's Annunciation.