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.4/5. ‘To say that the love’ ‘Lying beside you’ VIDYA Love in the Countryside VIKATANITAMBA Recollection VALLANA ‘When he had taken off my clothes’ BHAVABHUTI From Uttara Rama Charita ‘Deep in love’ CHAVALI BANGARAMMA My Brother RABINDRANATH TAGORE Black Blossom One Day AKHTAR-UL-IMAN Compromise ISMAIL You BASAVANNA ‘Look here, dear fellow’. (From Meena Alexander Illiterate Heart (TriQuarterly Books/ Northwestern University Press, ) I hear my father’s voice on the phone. He wants me to come from America to see him he does not want to die and be put in the earth, my sweet father: who held me high above the waters of the Red Sea, when I .
Indian Love Poems is a unique gathering of poems from across more than two and a half millennia that attempts to catalog the disordered ecstasies of love, Meena Alexander is an award-winning poet and the author of the memoir Fault Lines. Poet, essayist, novelist and scholar Meena Alexander died in New York City, her home since the s, on November Her poetry remained stepped in her Indian roots as well as embracing her many. Indian Ocean Poems Below is a collection of poems from several of Meena Alexander's works. Use the link below to navigate to the poems. Autobiography Water Crossing Acqua Alta Port Sudan Crossing the Indian Ocean Threshold City Indian Ocean Blues Autobiography (From Meena Alexander, Birthplace with Buried Stones (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, forthcoming Fall ) [ ].
Born in Allahabad, India, poet Meena Alexander was raised in Kerala and Sudan. She earned a BA at Khartoum University and a PhD at Nottingham University. Described as “undoubtedly one of the finest poets of contemporary times” by The Statesman (India), she was the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Atmospheric Embroidery (), Birthplace with Buried Stones (), and. 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. All day I hear the scissor bird cry cut cut cut cut cut It is the bird Kalidasa heard as he stood singing of buried love. Now our boys and girls take flight on rusty bicycles. Will we be cured? I cried And he: We have no tryst with destiny. My hands like yours are stained with the juice of the pomegrante. Please don't ask for my address.
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