{"product_id":"signals-across-vast-distances-elizabeth-alexander-9781324118008","title":"Signals Across Vast Distances: Essays and Tales","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"We send signals across vast distances, hoping to connect.\" In luminous prose, Elizabeth Alexander embraces that hope, offering resources--life wisdom, historical perspective, poetry, and art--to embolden us to \"reach beyond ourselves.\" Her close readings of visionary poets, interwoven with extraordinary visual art, 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 college-age son--deeply move us. She shines a light on our nation's painful history of inequity, recounting in her Class Day speech to Yale students the thwarted dream destroyed in 1831 of a Black college in New Haven; she calls for a reckoning of centuries of injustice in historical memory and memorializing. She asks, What will we each do to make the dream of freedom, for everyone, real? Every page conveys her hope that we recognize the abundant resources we carry within: language, history, community, family, our bodies, our stories, love itself. \u003cem\u003eSignals Across Vast Distances\u003c\/em\u003e empowers us--in Alexander's closing words--to \u003cem\u003elead with love\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Alexander\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1324118008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324118008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Elizabeth Alexander","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48437635547391,"sku":"9781324118008","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_115ae82a-398d-4be2-b8e5-788ef0ac7d11.jpg?v=1777163058","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/signals-across-vast-distances-elizabeth-alexander-9781324118008","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}