In Praise of Fragments
Meena Alexander
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Belletristik / Lyrik, Dramatik
Beschreibung
In Praise of Fragments is a collection of various and inter-related works, including a sequence of poems written about Venetian Jewish poet Sarra Copia Sulam (1592–1641), lyric essays about Venice, a suite of poems about Hyderabad, where Alexander lived for many years, and a series of brief sketches of memoir about her childhood in Kerala, the subject of her groundbreaking memoir Fault Lines. The writings are accompanied by a series of sumi ink drawings by Alexander and an afterword by Leah Suffrant.
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Sudan, family, grief, last book, Southern India, meditation, children, memoir, motherhood, United States, painting, woman, migration, Northeast Africa, Africa, diary, visual art, Hyderabad, myth, journal, drawings, ink, mysticism, home, Venice, India, South Asian, immigrant, grandmother, Kerala, reflection, Greek myth, Telangana, Italy, South Asia, death, globalism, ancestors, Sarra Copia Sullam, ancestry, desert, women, New York, childhood, cancer, terminal illness, Jewish