By Elizabeth Alexander
"PULITZER PRIZE IN LETTERS: BIOGRAPHY FINALIST"
"NATIONAL ebook CRITICS CIRLE AWARDS AUTOBIOGRAPHY FINALIST"
New York instances Bestseller
First girl Michelle Obama's favourite booklet of 2015
A New Yorker, NPR, Boston Globe, Publisher's Weekly, Newsday, Library magazine, People.com, Shelf know-how, The Root, and St. Louis Dispact Best ebook of 2015 Pick
New York instances ebook assessment Editor's Choice
An Amazon's top booklet of the Month, April 2015
IndieBound Indie subsequent number one choose, might 2015
A deeply resonant memoir for somebody who has enjoyed and misplaced, from acclaimed poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander.
within the gentle OF the realm, Elizabeth Alexander reveals herself at an existential crossroads after the unexpected dying of her husband. Channeling her poetic sensibilities right into a wealthy, lucid expense, Alexander tells a love tale that's, itself, a narrative of loss. As she displays at the great thing about her married lifestyles, the trauma because of her husband's demise, and the solace present in taking good care of her teenage sons, Alexander universalizes a truly own quest for which means and attractiveness within the wake of loss. the sunshine OF the realm is straight away an eternally compelling memoir and a deeply felt meditation at the benefits of affection, kin, artwork, and neighborhood. it's also a lyrical occasion of a lifestyles well-lived and a paean to the helpful present of human companionship. in the event you have enjoyed and misplaced, or for an individual who cares what issues such a lot, the sunshine OF the realm is needed studying.
Read or Download The Light of the World: A Memoir PDF
Best death books
A Good Ending: A Compassionate Guide to Funerals, Pastoral Care, and Life Celebrations
Wow, that used to be an exceptional funeral. reviews like this usually are not an coincidence, however the results of care and making plans, contends David Sparks in an exceptional finishing. This useful publication provides recommendation and ideas for each step alongside the best way, from assisting the death individual, to making plans a funeral, existence party, or memorial, and to being with these left to mourn.
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 2: Purgatorio (Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri)
The second one quantity of Oxford's new Divine Comedy provides the Italian textual content of the Purgatorio and, on dealing with pages, a brand new prose translation. carrying on with the tale of the poet's trip throughout the medieval different global less than the information of the Roman poet Virgil, the Purgatorio culminates within the regaining of the backyard of Eden and the reunion there with the poet's long-lost love Beatrice.
Presents biographical and important details at the poet Mark Strand, discussing a few of his hottest works, together with the tale of Our Lives, how it Is, Elegy for My Father, and darkish Harbor
- Dying to Forget (The Station, Book 1)
- Alef, Mem, Tau: Kabbalistic Musings on Time, Truth, and Death (Taubman Lectures in Jewish Studies)
- Here If You Need Me: A True Story
- The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir
- Death, Dying and Loss in the 21st Century
- Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest
Extra info for The Light of the World: A Memoir
Sample text
30 ] ara 3 Nourishment The Grand Valley of the Baliem includes not only the broad central plain but also the slopes and hills which climb up both sides to its high mountain walls. It is a vast and magnificently tended garden. In it the Dani spend most of their working lives, and from it they receive abundant and diverse nourishment. The Dani have names for over seventy different kinds of sweet potatoes which are cultivated in the Baliem Valley. By the time a child is ten or twelve he recognizes most kinds by their blossom, vine and root.
The Baliem is basically an area of limestone, and the more durable stone necessary for making axes and adzes is situated in deposits well beyond the boundaries of specifically Dani culture. There are, in fact, quarries some fifty or so miles to the north, where a linguistically related but politically unamliated group lives and manufactures stone implements for surrounding social and cultural groups. These tools are traded to the Dani for goods that the quarry people in turn lack or desire in greater abundance.
Each watchtower is the responsibility of those men who have gardens in its immediate vicinity. Here a watchtower which was felled in an earlymorning enemy raid is rebuilt. While some of the members of the watchtower group gather poles and vines, others begin to raise the first poles into place. p. 37 : 84, 85. The poles are lashed into a stable column with heavy vines. p. 37 : 86. As the younger men work on the watchtower, the older men relax in the shade of its shelter, smoking and gossiping, their spears close at hand.