Elizabeth Alexander, "The Light of the World"
May 17, 2015
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as posted by the channelAn essayist, playwright, and chair of Yale’s department of African American studies, Alexander is perhaps best known as the award-winning poet whose “Praise Song for the Day” graced Obama’s first inauguration. Her memoir is an eloquent elegy for her late husband, the Eritrean-born painter Ficre Ghebreyesus, who died suddenly at age fifty. Now raising their two sons alone, Alexander pays tribute to art and family, the enduring compensations for loss.
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