6/10/2023 0 Comments Broken Miracles by Kwame Alexander![]() ![]() ![]() I was disappointed, but not discouraged”) the beginning and end of marriage (“and I remember feeling defeated / at not having a key / to my own wife’s apartment”) and myriad lessons about how to live a curious and wholehearted life. ![]() Using poetry, prose, and recipes, Alexander reminiscences about healing his long-distant relationship with his father moving forward following the death of his beloved mother being inspired to become a writer by-and being a college student of-Nikki Giovanni (“My first grade in Nikki’s class was a C‑minus. Again.” In the second introduction, “A Letter to My Daughters,” the author writes, “All the things I wished I could have learned from my mother and was too afraid to ask my father are between these covers.” In the third, “How to Read This Book,” he advises, “Let these humble meditations and musings / carry you close, permanent, abreast-a wave.” The remaining sections of the book include “Looking for Me,” “A Letter to My Mother,” and an eponymous section. “These are just snapshots of a man learning to love. “This is not a traditional memoir,” writes Newbery Medalist Alexander in the first of three introductions. A poetic and epistolary collage focused on familial, romantic, and nourishing love. ![]()
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