Quickly Changing River: Poems

by Meena Alexander

Book Overview

Recipient, 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship

With her strong voice and precise language, Meena Alexander has crafted this visceral, worldly collection of poems. The experience she brings to the reader is sensual in many senses of the word, as she invokes bright colors, sounds, smells, and feelings. Her use of vivid imagery from the natural world--birds, lilies, horses--up against that from the world of humans--oppression, slavery, and violence--ties...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810124513
• ISBN13: 9780810124516
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Triquarterly Books
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 8.5"