The Light of the World : A Memoir (CD-Audio)

from Olivermagnus

In the spring of 2012, four days after his 50th-birthday party, Ficre Ghebreyesus had a heart attack while exercising on a treadmill in the home he shared with his wife, Elizabeth Alexander. Ficre was an artist, chef, poet, father, and beloved husband. This memoir documents mesmerizing essays fro...

from CarrieWuj

This is a beautiful book -- an elegy in poetry and prose and color and mysticism. Elizabeth Alexander is a poet -- she wrote "Praise Song for the Day" for Obama's first inauguration. Here she writes a memoir of the time surrounding her husband's sudden, unexpected death of a heart attack at age 5...

from Narshkite

The most beautiful love story I have ever read. This book is a memoir of Alexander's late husband who died suddenly just after his 50th birthday. I am still surprised that my primary emotion when reading was not grief over Ficre's death, but happiness over knowing that such a man existed, that he...

from benjaminsiegel

Wow. And, ouch.

from froxgirl

Although it is difficult to believe that any marriage could be as perfect as that of the author and her late husband Ficre Ghebreyesus, the reader can willingly suspend belief in order to absorb her message of the need to live in each moment appreciatively and slowly. Alexander, a Black poet and ...