Atmospheric Embroidery

Download or read book Atmospheric Embroidery written by Meena Alexander and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 present-day New York City. These sensual lyrics of body, memory, and place evoke the fragile, shifting nature of dwelling in our times.