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Her work has been anthologized in over twenty collections.Elizabeth Alexander, Poet of Iron - Nicholas Stix, Uncensored“Her best poems –especially in her first, reputation-making book , The Venus Hottentot –do not accept that there is an antagonism between African-American ;folk ; culture and ;high ; culture.” Reminds me of the woman sitting . Black Venus 2010: . Her previous works include The Venus Hottentot , . YaleNews | ;African-American Art Today ; is topic of free lecture . She is the author of four books of poems, The Venus Hottentot, Body of Life, Antebellum Dream Book. Elizabeth Alexander ;s " The Venus Hottentot " during the 1990s The Venus Hottentot was published by the University of Virginia Press as part of its Callaloo Poetry series. Elizabeth Alexander- Poets.org - Poetry , Poems , Bios & More. Michelle said: Out of this collection, the title poem really serves as the benchmark. From Dutch . That was a time. The book takes its title from a poem about Sarah Baartman, the "Venus Hottentot " who was a woman from . . Source: The Venus Hottentot (Graywolf Press, 2004) Sara Baartman & the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story & a Biography. Alexander has published six books of poetry . The Venus Hottentot by Elizabeth Alexander : The Poetry Foundation Home > Poems & Poets > The Venus Hottentot. degree from Yale, M.A. 1990 - Rainbow Remnants in . The Venus Hotten... Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010 (Graywolf Press, 2010); American Sublime (2005), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Antebellum Dream Book (2001); Body of Life (1996); and The Venus Hottentot (1990).Two Poems by Elizabeth Alexander from " The Venus Hottentot "Two Poems by Elizabeth Alexander from " The Venus Hottentot ". Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus offers the authoritative account of one woman's life and