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Meena Alexander

Born

in Allahabad, India

February 17, 1951

Died

November 21, 2018

Website

http://www.meenaalexander.com/

Genre

Poetry, Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs

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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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Average rating: 3.94 · 967 ratings · 103 reviews · 48 distinct works • Similar authors

	Indian Love Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) 4.08 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fault Lines: A Memoir (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series) by Meena Alexander, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Preface by) 3.70 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1993 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nampally Road 3.65 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Atmospheric Embroidery: Poems 4.03 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience 4.09 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Raw Silk: Poems 3.66 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Praise of Fragments by Meena Alexander (Author, Illustrator), Leah Suffrant (Afterword) 4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Manhattan Music: A Novel 3.41 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Birthplace with Buried Stones: Poems 4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Illiterate Heart: Poems really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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

tags: decolonization, writing

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“I see his eyes where petals part
tired, remote, another coast.”
― Meena Alexander, House of a Thousand Doors

tags: poetry

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“In the poem, there is always that present moment which is terribly important through which memory works.”
― Meena Alexander

tags: important, memory, moment, poem, present, quote, works

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