Atmospheric Embroidery

Poems

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Pub Date 15 Jun 2018 | Archive Date 12 Apr 2018

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In this haunting collection of poems we travel through zones of violence to reach the crystalline depths of words -- Meena Alexander writes So landscape becomes us, / Also an interior space bristling with light. At the heart of  this book is the poem cycle ‘Indian Ocean Blues’, a sustained meditation on the journey of the poet as a young child from India to Sudan. There are poems inspired by the drawings of children from war torn Darfur and others set in New York City in the present. These sensual lyrics of body, memory and place evoke the fragile, shifting nature of dwelling in our times.
 

In this haunting collection of poems we travel through zones of violence to reach the crystalline depths of words -- Meena Alexander writes So landscape becomes us, / Also an interior space bristling...


Advance Praise

"Alexander's language is precise, her syntax is pellucid, and her poems address all of the senses, offering a simultaneous richness and simplicity."—A. E. Stallings

"In Atmospheric Embroidery, Meena Alexander takes us on her magic carpet ride of language and image. Reading her is the pleasure of displacement, but also the sadness of inescapable loss. She makes me cry. She makes me happy." —Nell Painter, author of The History of White People and Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

"Alexander's language is precise, her syntax is pellucid, and her poems address all of the senses, offering a simultaneous richness and simplicity."—A. E. Stallings

"In Atmospheric Embroidery, Meena...


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ISBN 9780810137608
PRICE US$17.95 (USD)
PAGES 104

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In this poetry collection, Meena Alexander doesn't shy away from some of the hardest images there are, including violence and death. But the poet writes in a way that does these images justice, putting context along with artistry.

These poems are also ones that focus just as much on sound as subject. I could easily image these being performed out loud and be just as enjoyable as reading them alone in your room, particularly the title poem of the collection.

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