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1. The Light of the World: A Memoir

   Elizabeth Alexander

   “Art tries to capture that which we know leaves us, as we move in and out of each other’s lives, as we all must eventually leave this earth. Great artists know that shadow, work always against the dying light.

   Elizabeth Alexander on what lends art its extraordinary power:

2. Power and Possibility: Essays, Reviews, and Interviews

   Elizabeth Alexander

   “You have to tell your own story simultaneously as you hear and respond to the stories of others.”

   Elizabeth Alexander on writing, the ethic of love, language as a vehicle for the self, and the inherent poetry of personhood:

3. Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010

   Elizabeth Alexander

   “…and are we not of interest to each other?”

   Elizabeth Alexander on what poetry does for the human soul — so very lovely and so very true:

4. The Light of the World: A Memoir

   Elizabeth Alexander

   “Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss.”

   Poet Elizabeth Alexander’s exquisite meditation on love, loss, and the boundaries of the the thing we call a soul: