What to Read After American Sublime
Readers who loved American Sublime by Elizabeth Alexander keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where American Sublime is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after American Sublime
Hip Logic
Black feeling, Black talk, Black judgement
leadbelly
Domestic work
Winter hours
Homegirls and Handgrenades
Against forgetting
The Black Interior
American Smooth
Blood dazzler
Bellocq's Ophelia
Blessing the Boats
Thomas and Beulah
No Name in the Street
Selected poems
The City in Which I Love You
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Krik? Krak!
The complete poems, 1927-1979
Notes of a Native Son
Are you my mother?
Drown
Jazz
The fire next time