Books by Meena Alexander

* Meena Alexander was compiling this book during the last year and last months of her life.* The poems on the life of Sarra Copia Sulam are accompanied by Alexander's own original artwork.* Meena Alexander is an important writer in the disciplines of contemporary poetry, Women's and Gender Studies, Asian American literature and studies in globalism, migration and immigration as well trauma studies.* In the sequence "Grandmother's Garden" Alexander returns to the subjects of her groundbreaking memoir Fault Lines, which dealt with displacement and sexual trauma.

Sets the work of contemporary American poetry within the streams of migration that have made the nation what it is in the 21st century. This book outlines the dilemmas that face modern immigrant poets, including how to make a place for oneself in a new society and how to write poetry in a time of violence worldwide.