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Allegra Jordan

Allegra Jordan

Executive in Residence in the Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs
Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs
allegra.jordan@duke.edu
Box 90968, Durham, NC 27708-0968
Pratt School of Engineering, 305 Teer Engineering Building Box 90271, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Books

String the Bow: A Variation on Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy

Book · July 27, 2026 THREE POLITICALLY HOMELESS EXILES flee to sanctuary after Athens' democracy falls. One is in shock. One thirsts for vengeance. The youngest brings untested courage. What future can they hope to mother-forth? String the Bow, a play to be read aloud with ... Link to item Cite

The Light of Borrowed Splendor A Poem in Seven Prayers

Book · July 20, 2021 The poems wrestle with the interplay between history and harm, love and loss, hope and despair, and ultimately lead the reader back to the mountain on which the book began, where we can hear The love that never stops echoing Across the ... ... Cite

A Splendorful Path A Five-Hundred-Year Peace Map in Six Words

Book · September 20, 2020 " Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called it a vision of the future through the lens of "the dissenter's hope." How do we get there? Are we crazy to think we can reach it? This short book plots the path in six words: Why bother? Lament. Hope. ... Cite

Love's Red Door Renewing Your Community with a Respite Park

Book · June 2020 In having fun, and not trying to fix each other, spirits are refreshed and renewed in ways that work the world over. This series of essays sets out the blueprint for one such respite park, Rick's Place. ... Cite

We Interrupt These Wars Poems of Grace in the Face of the Unbearable and Irreversible

Book · October 4, 2019 Life has its 10,000 sorrows and 10,000 joys. Yet we can be too loyal to our sorrows and let them crowd out the beauty of life. This collection explores the creativity of joy and mercy in the face of the unbearable and irreversible. ... Cite

The End of Innocence A Novel

Book · August 26, 2014 In this enthralling story of love, loss, and divided loyalties, two students fall in love on the eve of WWI and must face a world at war—from opposing sides. ... Cite