A deeply moving collection from a poet who crosses borders; New York City poet Meena Alexander was born in Allahabad, India and divided her childhood between India and the Sudan. From her cross-cultural perspective, Alexander writes with moving intensity of post-September 11 events as she evokes violence and civil strife, love, despair, and a hard-won hope. This autobiographical cycle of poems reflects the surrealism of such a life, and is shot through with the frissons of pleasure and pain, of beauty and tension, that mark a truly global identity.
| ISBN: | 9780810151581 |
| Publication date: | 31st July 2004 |
| Author: | Meena Alexander |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 112 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |