The Light of the World(Reprint) A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize in Letters: Biography Finalist) by ElizabethAlexander Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2016 by Grand Central Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4555-9986-8, ISBN: 1-4555-9986-7
"A deeply resonant memoir for anyone who has loved and lost that is at once "remarkably uplifting" (Washington Post) and "crushing, lovely, painful, and above all powerful" (New York Journal of Books), from acclaimed poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander.* Pulitzer Prize Finalist* National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist* A New Yorker, NPR, Boston Globe, Publisher's Weekly, Newsday, Library Journal, People.com, Shelf Aw ..."
Crave Radiance(Reprint) New and Selected Poems 1990-2010 by ElizabethAlexander Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2012 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-630-9, ISBN: 1-55597-630-1
"The first career retrospective by the award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander, now available in paperbackWe crave radiance in this austere world,light in the spiritual darkness.Learning is the one perfect religion,its path correct, narrow, certain, straight. ―from "Allegiance"Over twenty years, Elizabeth Alexander has become one of America's most exciting and important poets, and her selection as the ..."
"In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just twenty-three years old, completed a series of sixty small tempera paintings with text captions about the Great Migration. Within months of its making, Lawrences Migration series was divided between The Museum of Modern Art (even numbered panels) and the Phillips Memorial Gallery (odd numbered panels). The work has since become a landmark in the history of African-American art, a monument in the collect ..."
"Lawrence's landmark series on African American migration in contextIn 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, made a series of 60 small tempera paintings on the Great Migration, the decades-long mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North that began in 1915–16. The child of migrant parents, Lawrence worked partly from his own experience and partly from long research in his neighborhood library. The res ..."