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Will Alexander on Intuition

Will Alexander Interview - Poetry.LA

“[The Congo] is the heartbeat of the world, and it’s never recognized as a central heartbeat,” says Will Alexander about the focus of his most recent collection, Refractive Africa (New Directions, 2021), a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, in this Poetry.LA interview with Douglas Manuel about the intuition he follows for his writing. “I’m not colonized by cognitive expertise,” says Alexander.

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Will Alexander
Refractive Africa
New Directions
2021
Pulitzer Prize
Poetry.LA interview series
Douglas Manuel
2022

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