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Illiterate heart / Meena Alexander.
Van Pelt Library PR9499.3.A46 I45 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexander, Meena, 1951-2018.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East Indian Americans.
- Immigrants.
- India--Poetry.
- India.
- Immigrants--Poetry.
- East Indian Americans--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 106 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Ill. : Triquarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- 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 Rumi visits with her while she speaks on the phone in her New York apartment, and in another she evokes fellow-poet Allen Ginsberg in the India she herself, has left behind. Drawing on the fascinating images and languages of her dual life, Alexander deftly weaves together contradictory geographies, thoughts, and feelings.
- Contents:
- Provenance 3
- She Hears a Gold Flute 7
- Heat Wave 8
- Port Sudan 10
- Elegy for My Father 12
- Reading Rumi As the Phone Rings 17
- Muse 23
- Choric Meditation 25
- Fragments 27
- House 30
- Civil Strife 31
- Indigo 34
- Mirror of Earth 36
- Glyphs 38
- Valley 39
- Man in a Red Shirt 43
- Translated Lives 45
- Gold Horizon 47
- An Honest Sentence 52
- Indian April 54
- Taxicabwallah 58
- Illiterate Heart 63
- Rites of Sense 71
- Red Parapet 73
- Chennai Afternoon 75
- Low Hills of Bavaria 76
- Giving Names to Stones 78
- Daffodils 80
- Roadside Music 81
- Water Table 83
- Poem in Late October 84
- Diary of Dreams 86
- Black River, Walled Garden 91.
- ISBN:
- 0810151170
- 0810151189
- OCLC:
- 48857982
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