PBS NewsHour

Elizabeth Alexander remembers her husband in new memoir

Clip: 05/05/2015 | 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.

Aired: 05/05/15

Rating: NR

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