The next selection for The Rumpus Poetry Club is Crave Radiance, new and selected poems, by Inaugural Poet Elizabeth Alexander.

This is a hardcover book with a cover price of $28, so it’s a particularly good deal for our members. We’re shipping Crave Radiance on Friday, October 1.

From the jacket copy:

Over twenty years, Elizabeth Alexander has become one of America’s most exciting and important poets, and her selection as the inaugural poet by President Obama confirmed her place as one of the indispensible voices of our times. Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems gathers twenty pages of new poetry along with generous selections from her previous work. The result is the definitive volume to date by this American master.

We’ll be publishing a note from poetry board member Brian Spears on why he chose this book shortly.

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