Quickly Changing River Poems |
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Author:
| Alexander, Meena |
ISBN: | 978-0-8101-2450-9 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2008 |
Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
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Imprint: | TriQuarterly Books |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $44.95 |
Book Description:
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Recipient of 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 world--birds, lilies, horses--up against that from the world of humans--oppression, slavery, and violence--ties her...
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Recipient of 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 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.