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Recipient, 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship
With her strong voice and precise language, Meena Alexander has crafted this visceral, worldly collection of poems. The experience she brings to the reader is sensual in many senses of the word, as she invokes bright colors, sounds, smells, and feelings. Her use of vivid imagery from the natural worldâbirds, lilies, horsesâup against that from the world of humansâoppression, slavery, and violenceâties her work to the earth even as she works a few mystical poetic transformations.
In Alexanderâs world, the songs of a bird can become the voice of a girl in a café and the red juice of mulberries can be as shocking as blood. When she focuses her attention on the cloth of a girlâs sari, the material of a womanâs life, or the blood in her veins, she speaks to the particular experience of women in the world. The women are vividly presentâsometimes they are hidden or veiled, juxtaposed with open gardens in full bloom. It is difficult not to come away from Quickly Changing River without a new sense of the power and frailty of being alive.
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About: Recipient, 2008 Guggenheim FellowshipWith her strong voice and precise language, Meena Alexander has crafted this visceral, worldly collection of poems.
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