Alexis B Austin

For Lincoln: & Other Poems

"Austin Alexis contemplates the way time's passage alters our sense of artists such as Chopin, Haydn, Poe, and Martha Graham as well as, among others, grandparents, Einstein, and presidents Lincoln and Obama. The way the poet cultivates sound, sense, and form, he grows, as he writes George Sand did ...

Privacy Issues

In Privacy Issues, Austin Alexis deals with a multitude of subjects. Seldom a participant, he is rather an empathetic observer of life. Even when the speaker seems to be himself, we are not sure whether he is using this technique to make the poem seem more personal or employing his imagination to ge...

Delivering Human Services: A Learning Approach to Practice: 4th (fourth) edition

Lovers and Drag Queens: Poems

"[A] clear-eyed, queer exploration of urban characters and dilemmas from the perspective of the talented African-American New York Poet, playwright, and fiction writer, Austin Alexis. In free verse and prose poems, Alexis offers an enticing palette of ordinary and outré people who populate New York ...

Delivering human services: An introductory programmed text (Harper series in social work). 1977 Ex-library Edition. 445 pages

"developed to serve social work students in undergraduate and graduate programs"