Fault Lines
- 376 pages
- 14 hours of reading
In this evocative memoir, now a foundational text in postcolonial studies, an acclaimed Indian poet explores writing, memory, and place in a post-9/11 world.
Meena Alexander Books
February 17, 1951 – November 21, 2018
Meena Alexander was an internationally acclaimed poet, scholar, and writer whose work crossed cultural boundaries. Her writing, shaped by experiences in India, Sudan, and New York City, delves into themes of identity, migration, and cross-cultural expression. Alexander masterfully wove personal experience with profound literary insight, forging a distinctive voice that resonated with readers globally. Her literary legacy endures through her poetry collections, literary memoirs, and essays, which provoke reflection and offer a fresh perspective on the complexities of human existence.
Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series: Indian Love Poems
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
According to the Kama Sutra, the erotic handbook written two thousand years ago, when the wheel of ecstasy is in motion “there is no textbook at all, and no order.” 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, ranging from the Kama Sutra and earlier works up to present-day India and the poets of the Indian diaspora.Indian Love Poems features works from the classical languages of Sanskrit and Tamil and such later languages as Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam, Bengali, and English. Emerging from many Indian cultures and eras, the poems collected here reflect a variety of erotic and spiritual passions, and celebrate the powerful role of desire–both male and female–in the intricate dance of existence. From the twelfth-century female poet Mahadeviyakka to the twentieth-century Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore to such contemporary poets as Kamala Das and Vikram Seth, this glittering tapestry of lyric voices beautifully and sensually evokes the transfiguring force of love.
Rückkehr nach Hyderabad - bk899; Droemer Knaur; Meena Alexander; pocket_book; 1993
