| Raw Silk Contributor(s): Alexander, Meena (Author) |
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ISBN: 0810151561 ISBN-13: 9780810151567 Publisher: Triquarterly Books OUR PRICE: $49.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2004 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2004052056 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.16" W x 9.28" (0.65 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |