Signals Across Vast Distances
Essays and Tales
Will be published approx. on 15. September 2026
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-1-324-11800-8 (ISBN)
Description
"We send signals across vast distances, hoping to connect." In luminous prose, Elizabeth Alexander shows how hope offers resources-life wisdom, historical perspective, poetry and art-to embolden us to "reach beyond ourselves." Her close readings of visionary poets reveal how poetry and art can sustain us. Her stories of connection-as a daughter, wife, widow and mother; as an aspiring dancer; on the dais at President Obama's inauguration; in the hospital with her son-deeply move us. Shining a light on America's painful history of inequity, Alexander calls for a reckoning of centuries of injustice. She asks, what will we each do to make the dream of freedom, for everyone, real? Every page charges us to recognise the abundant resources we carry within ourselves: language, history, community, family, our bodies, our stories, love itself. Signals Across Vast Distances empowers us-in Alexander's closing words-to lead with love.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
12 color illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-324-11800-8 (9781324118008)
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Elizabeth Alexander is a prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author, renowned poet, educator, scholar, and cultural advocate. Her memoir, The Light of the World, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award. She composed and recited "Praise Song for the Day" for President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration and is currently president of the Mellon Foundation, the nation's largest funder of the arts, culture, and humanities. She lives and works in New York City.