Poetics of Dislocation Quotes

“In order to enter that zone we must finally let go of the embodied distances that place grants. But what does this do to what we commonly think of as the past?

I think of cyberspace, which is no place at all, as akin to the dark imaginary out of which poems come, their rhythms, their discrete music punctuating the inner life.”
― Meena Alexander, Poetics of Dislocation

“And in terms of identity, surely one could argue versions of such a crisis have been with us for a very long time. There is nothing new in exile. It is as ancient as the notion of home.”
― Meena Alexander, Poetics of Dislocation