If you think about some of the language of the civil rights movement, we shall overcome

is hopeful, but after that comes someday.

Well, I think what we're seeing now is that we have not yet arrived at that day.

Elizabeth Alexander is here to talk about the Trayvon generation, her meditation on race,

justice, and their intersections with art.

I'm certainly not saying that Keats himself was a predator, but he isn't just the innocent

young man in love with Fanny Brawl.

Lucosta Miller joins us to help us see a great poet more clearly, and to talk about her

new book, Keats, A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph.

Plus our critics will be here to talk about books they've recently reviewed.

This is the Book Review Podcast.

It's April 15th.

I'm John Williams.

Elizabeth Alexander joins us now.

She is a Pulitzer Prize finalist poet, the author of the memoir, The Light of the World.

And I'm willing to bet that you remember her reading her poem, Praise Song for the Day,

which she wrote for Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009.

Her new book is the Trayvon Generation.

In the Book Review, Mitchell S. Jackson calls it a profound and lyrical meditation on race,

class, justice, and their intersections with art.

Elizabeth, thanks so much for being here to talk about it.

I'm glad to be here.

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