Meena Alexander

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Meena Alexander


Born
in Allahabad, India
February 17, 1951

Died
November 21, 2018

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Meena Alexander was an internationally acclaimed poet, scholar, and writer. Born in Allahabad, India, and raised in India and Sudan, Alexander lived and worked in New York City, where she was Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and at the CUNY Graduate Center in the PhD program in English. She was the author of numerous collections of poetry, literary memoirs, essays, and works of fiction and literary criticism.

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Indian Love Poems (Everyman...

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Nampally Road

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Atmospheric Embroidery: Poems

4.03 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions
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The Shock of Arrival: Refle...

4.09 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions
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Raw Silk: Poems

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In Praise of Fragments

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Manhattan Music: A Novel

3.44 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions
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Birthplace with Buried Ston...

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Illiterate Heart: Poems

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“The act of writing, it seems to me, makes up a shelter, allows space to what would otherwise be hidden, crossed out, mutilated. Sometimes writing can work toward a reparation, making a sheltering space for the mind. Yet it feeds off ruptures, tears in what might otherwise seem a seamless, oppressive fabric.”
Meena Alexander, The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience

“I see his eyes where petals part
tired, remote, another coast.”
Meena Alexander, House of a Thousand Doors
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“In the poem, there is always that present moment which is terribly important through which memory works.”
Meena Alexander

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