Elizabeth Alexander remembers her husband in new memoir
Clip: 5/5/2015 | 6m 42s
Jeffrey Brown talks to Elizabeth Alexander, a poet and professor.
In a new memoir, “The Light of the World,” Elizabeth Alexander writes of love and catastrophe -- falling in love with the man who would become her husband and the father of her sons, and his sudden death at age 50. Jeffrey Brown talks to Alexander, a poet and professor, about sharing his passions and capturing his absence.
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Elizabeth Alexander remembers her husband in new memoir
Clip: 5/5/2015 | 6m 42s
In a new memoir, “The Light of the World,” Elizabeth Alexander writes of love and catastrophe -- falling in love with the man who would become her husband and the father of her sons, and his sudden death at age 50. Jeffrey Brown talks to Alexander, a poet and professor, about sharing his passions and capturing his absence.
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