"When I was a child I saw the sea burn. How often I have thought that sentence but with no page to set it on, no place…"

"It seems to me that in its rhythms the poem, the artwork, can incorporate scansion of the actual, the broken steps, t…"

"Migrancy, a central theme for many of us in this shifting world, forces a recasting of how the body is grasped, how l…"

"Through speech, the entanglement of thoughts and feelings might be unwound, the truth permitted to shine, however fit…"

"The act of writing, it seems to me, makes up a shelter, allows space to what would otherwise be hidden, crossed out, …"

"As the condition of migration and cultural displacement comes to be seen as a metaphor of our times, Meena Alexander'…"

"At once violent, erotic, and somber, Manhattan Music is infused with the power of myth and poetry and the inner life,…"

"Meena Alexander sings of countries, foreign and familiar places where the heart and spirit live, and places for which…"

"Meena Alexander has written a fierce new complexity into questions of identity, diaspora, tradition, language, and co…"

"Meena Alexander's acute poetic sensibility makes this memoir a joy to read. At the same time, the writing is grounded…"