What did it mean to write as a woman in the Romantic era? How did women writers test and refashion the claims or the grand self, the central "I," we typically see in Romanticism?In this powerful and original study Meena Alexander examines the work of three women: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) the radical feminist who typically thought of life as "warfare" and revolted against the social condition of women; Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) who lived a private life enclosed by the bonds of femininity, under the protection of her poet brother William and his family; Mary Shelley (1797-1851), the daughter that Wollstonecraft died giving birth to, mistress then wife of the poet Percy Shelley, and precocious author of Frankenstein. Contents: Introduction: Mapping a Female Romanticism; Romantic Feminine; True Appearances; Of Mothers and Mamas; Writing in Fragments; Natural Enclosures; Unnatural Creation; Revising the Feminine; Versions of the Sublime^R

Mira Kannadical returns to India after graduate school in England to teach, but when she moves into a house on Nampally road in Hyderabad, she must come to terms with the conflicts and contradictions of life in modern India

Product Description: poem-play, rich in poetic realism

Product Description: Passionate, fierce, and lyrical, Meena Alexander’s memoir traces her evolution as a postcolonial writer from a privileged childhood in India to a turbulent adolescence in the Sudan and then to England and New York City. In this tenth-anniversary edition of Fault Lines, this Alexander challenges the assumptions of life as a South Asian American woman writer in a post-9-11 world...read more

Product Description: Contents Overture Another Voice Piecmeal Shelters Piecemeal Shelters Art of Pariahs Language and Shame Alphabets of Flesh Passion Skin Song Whose House is This? House of a thousand Doors Hotel Alexandria Sidi Syed's Architecture Tangled Roots Poem by the Wellside Bobating Her Garden Erupting Words Aunt Chinna Coda from Night-Scene Translating Violence Bordering Ourselves Her Mother's Words Ashtamudi Lake Translating Violence Desert Rose Estrangement Becomes the Mark of the Eagle Accidental Markings Great Brown River The Storm: A Poem in Five Parts Making Up Memory That Other Body 'A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse...read more

Product Description: "Meena Alexander's imagination thrives in the active cross-fertilization of cultures and genres. In this new collection we are privy to the full and variegated display of her poetry." -MARILYN CHIN "The river and bridge are ultimatey the same...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Sandhya Rosenblum, an Indian immigrant married to an American Jewish man, attempts to make sense of her life in a time of turbulence, exploring issues of ethnic intolerance, interracial affairs and marriages, and what it means to be an American today

Product Description: "There have been no women in our part of the country whose names posterity found it worthwhile to cherish," writes Lalithambika Antherjanam (1909-1985) in "Come Back", her fictional account of an Indian woman activist's life. In Cast Me Out If You Will, however, Antherjanam's stories bring to life the experiences of women living at all levels of Indian society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Winner, 2002 PEN Open Book AwardRecipient, 2008 Guggenheim FellowshipMeena 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. (view table of contents)

A definitive compilation of poetry reflecting the diverse cultures and history of the Indian subcontinent ranges from the two-thousand-year-old Kama Sutra to the works of poets from modern-day India and the Indian diaspora, including poems by such notables as Mahadeviyakka, Rabindranath Tagore, and Vikram Seth. 10,000 first printing.

Recipient, 2008 Guggenheim FellowshipWith 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 world—birds, lilies, horses—up against that from the world of humans—oppression, slavery, and violence—ties her work to the earth even as she works a few mystical poetic transformations.In Alexander’s 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 girl’s sari, the material of a woman’s life, or the blood in her veins, she speaks to the particular experience of women in the world. The women are vividly present—sometimes 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. Aletheia (Girl in River Water) First I saw your face,The your whole body lying still Hands jutting, eyelids shut  Twin nostrils flare, sheerEfflorescebce when memory cannot speak-a horde of body parts glistening.

Product Description: Poetics of Dislocation sets the work of contemporary American poetry within the streams of migration that have made the nation what it is in the twenty-first century. There are few poets better qualified to muse on that context than Meena Alexander, who spent her life studying at prestigious institutions around the globe before settling in the United States to work on her acclaimed body of poetry...read more

Product Description: How do we make sense of debt? What does it mean to live in a world of debt—whether you are a college student in the US, a struggling farmer in India, a homeowner, or a country? WSQ investigates what happens when debt overwhelms moral obligations, de-moralizing both debtor and creditor...read more