“meena alexander”

This is the story of Mira Kannadical who lives simultaneously in a private world of lyrical intensity and a public world of violence and torture. Mira who hopes to lead an ‘ideal’ life after her return home from England finds her India teeming with confusion and unrest. Realising the futility of... More

With her strong voice and precise language, Meena Alexander has crafted this visceral, worldly collection of poems. The experience she brings to the reader is sensual in many senses of the word, as she invokes bright colors, sounds, smells, and feelings. Her use of vivid imagery from the natural wor... More

Meena Alexander's poetry emerges as a consciousness moving between the worlds of memory and the present, enhanced by multiple languages. Her experience of exile is translated into the intimate exploration of her connections to both India and America. In one poem the thirteenth-century Persian poet R... More

A deeply moving collection from the 2002 PEN Open Book Award-winning poet.... More

According to the Kama Sutra," "the erotic handbook written two thousand years ago, when the wheel of ecstasy is in motion " there is no textbook at all, and no order." "Indian Love Poems" is a unique gathering of poems from across more than two and a half millennia that attempts to catalog the disor... More

Sandhya Rosenblum, an immigrant from India married to an American Jewish man, tries to make sense of her life in a time of turbulence. In this sweeping novel set in Manhattan and India, Alexander lyrically and poignantly explores crossing borders, the Indian diaspora, fanaticism, ethnic intolerance,... More

This volume investigates issues like identity politics, culture and literature, gender, education and oppression. In interrogating power in this way, the volume seeks to recover the histories and voices of those from below.... More

Contents"Overture Another Voice"Piecmeal SheltersPiecemeal SheltersArt of PariahsLanguage and ShameAlphabets of FleshPassionSkin SongWhose House is This? House of a thousand DoorsHotel AlexandriaSidi Syed's ArchitectureTangled RootsPoem by the WellsideBobatingHer GardenErupting WordsAunt ChinnaCoda ... More