Bookshelf

Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.

The Blue Velvet Dress Says I Told You So: Poems + Paintings by Heidi Wong ’20

July 1, 2021

Tags Alumni Book

(Los Angeles: 777, 2019).
Combining lavish paintings and powerful poetry, this book, the author’s second, deals with humanitarian and existential issues ranging from equality, loss, neglect, and legacy. “While the book possesses heavy feminist overtones, Heidi moves toward humanitarian issues on a much larger scale using allegory that allows the work to be accessible to anyone struggling or healing.”