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Alexander, Elizabeth & Van Clief-Stefanon, Lyrae: Poems in Conversation & A Conversation

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When Alexander and Stefanon scrutinize the variegated surfaces of Romare Beardens art, the intensity of their gazes gives way to speech. In the blues of Reclining Nude, Stefanons speaker discovers I could hear / her holding / her breath. Alexander finds images that transmute into sounds: Flowered dresses. / A womans holler. River or guitar. In the hands of these poets, ekphrasis is an act of inquiry, a mode of poetic transformation as well as cultural analysis. For both, the lacunae inherent in acts of reading and looking are openings for empathy, uncertainty, discourseBarbara Fischer

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