Illiterate Heart

by Meena Alexander

Book Overview

Winner, 2002 PEN Open Book Award
Recipient, 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship

Meena Alexander's poetry emerges as a consciousness moving between the worlds of memory and the present, enhanced by multiple languages. Her experience of exile is translated into the intimate exploration of her connections to both India and America. In one poem the thirteenth-century Persian poet Rumi visits with her while she speaks on the phone in her New York...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810151189
• ISBN13: 9780810151185
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Triquarterly Books
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 9.1"