Raw Silk: Poems
by Meena Alexander
Northwestern University Press, 2004
Cloth: 978-0-8101-5156-7 | Paper: 978-0-8101-5158-1 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-6668-4
Library of Congress Classification PR9499.3.A46R39 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
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