Fault Lines

Selected works

Poetry

Early work

  • The Bird’s Bright Ring (1976) (long poem)
  • I Root My Name (Calcutta: United Writers, 1977) (collection)
  • Without Place (Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1977) (long poem)
  • In the Middle Earth (New Delhi: Enact, 1977) (performance piece)[25]

Collections

  • Alexander, Meena (1981). Stone Roots. Arnold-Heinemann, India. ISBN 978-0862491093.
  • Alexander, Meena (1988). House of a Thousand Doors: Poems and Prose Pieces. Three Continents Press. ISBN 9780894105548.[6][41]
  • Alexander, Meena (1996). River and Bridge. TSAR Publications. ISBN 978-0920661567.[42]
  • Alexander, Meena (2002). Illiterate Heart. TriQuarterly. ISBN 978-0810151178.[43][44][45]
  • Alexander, Meena (2004). Raw Silk. TriQuarterly. ISBN 978-0810151567.[46]
  • Alexander, Meena (2008). Quickly Changing River. TriQuarterly. ISBN 978-0810124509.[47]
  • Alexander, Meena (2013). Birthplace with Buried Stones. TriQuarterly/ Northwestern University. ISBN 978-0-8101-5239-7.[48][31]
  • Alexander, Meena (2018). Atmospheric Embroidery. TriQuarterly. ISBN 978-0810137608.[49]
  • Alexander, Meena (2020). In Praise of Fragments. Nightboat Books. ISBN 978-1643620121.

Chapbooks

  • Alexander, Meena (1989). The Storm: A Poem in Five Parts. New York: Red Dust. ISBN 9780873760621.
  • Alexander, Meena (1992). Night-Scene, the Garden. New York: Red Dust. ISBN 978-0873760744.[50]
  • Alexander, Meena (2011). Otto poesie da «Quickly changing river» (in Italian). Translated by Fazzini, Marco. Sinopia di Venezia. ISBN 9788895495330.[51]
  • Impossible Grace: Jerusalem Poems (Al-Quds University, 2012)[24]
  • Shimla (2012)
  • Alexander, Meena (2015). Dreaming in Shimla: Letter to my Mother. Indian Institute of Advanced Study. ISBN 978-9382396314.[25]

Poetry and essays

  • Alexander, Meena (1996). The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience. South End Press. ISBN 978-0-89608-545-9.[38][52][53]
  • Alexander, Meena (2009). Poetics of Dislocation. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0472070763.[25][1][52][54]

Novels

  • Alexander, Meena (1991). Nampally Road. Mercury House. ISBN 978-0-916515-82-9.[55][56][57][58]
  • Alexander, Meena (1996). Manhattan Music. Mercury House. ISBN 978-1-56279-092-9.[59][60][61][57][53]

Memoirs

  • Alexander, Meena (1993). Fault Lines. Feminist Press. ISBN 1-55861-058-8.[62][63][64][57][53][65]
  • Alexander, Meena, wa Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ (2003). Fault Lines (2nd ed.). The Feminist Press. ISBN 978-1558614543.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)[66][67]

Criticism

  • Alexander, Meena (1979). The Poetic Self: Towards a Phenomenology of Romanticism. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press. ISBN 9780391017542.
  • Alexander, Meena (1989). Women in Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley. Basingstoke: Macmillan Education. ISBN 9780333391693.

Edited works

  • Alexander, Meena, ed. (2005). Indian Love Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 9781400042258. (US) ISBN 9781841597577 (UK)
  • Alexander, Meena, ed. (2018). Name Me A Word: Indian Writers Reflect on Writing. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300222586.

Prefaces and introductory notes

  • Introduction to Truth Tales: Stories by Contemporary Indian Women Writers (Feminist Press, 1990)[11]
  • Foreword to Miriam Cooke and Roshni Rustomji-Kerns (eds), Blood into Ink, Twentieth Century South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War (Westview Press, 1994)
  • "Bodily Inventions: A Note on the Poems", Special Issue of The Asian Pacific American Journal vol. 5 no. 1, Spring/Summer 1996
  • Preface to Cast Me Out If You Will!: Stories and Memoir Pieces by Lalithambika Antherjanam (Feminist Press, 1998)
  • Foreword to Indian Love Poems (Knopf, 2005)[25]

Appearances in poetry anthologies

  • Gopi Kottoor, ed. (2000). A New Book of Indian Poems in English. Writers Workshop. ISBN 9788175957282.
  • Anand Kumar, ed. (2017). Travelogue : The Grand Indian Express. Authorspress. ISBN 978-9381030776.

Appearances in periodicals

Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
"Acqua Alta" 2008 Alexander, Meena. Quickly Changing River (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2008) Kejriwal, Rohini (19 November 2017). "Five poems (or five ways) to go to the sea in November". Scroll.in. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
"Lady Dufferin's Terrace" 2011 Alexander, Meena (5 September 2011). "Lady Dufferin's Terrace". The New Yorker. Alexander, Meena (2013). Birthplace with Buried Stones. TriQuarterly/ Northwestern University. ISBN 978-0-8101-5239-7.
"Experimental Geography" 2013 Alexander, Meena (16 September 2013). "Weekly Poem: 'Experimental Geography'". PBS NewsHour. Alexander, Meena (2013). Birthplace with Buried Stones. TriQuarterly/ Northwestern University. ISBN 978-0-8101-5239-7.
"Kochi by the sea" 2018 Alexander, Meena (12–19 February 2018). "Kochi by the sea". The New Yorker. Vol. 94, no. 1. pp. 44–45.
"Where Do You Come From?" 2018 Alexander, Meena (4 July 2018). "Where Do You Come From?". Poetry Foundation.
"Grandmother’s Garden, Section 18" 2020 Alexander, Meena (23 January 2020). "Poem: Grandmother's Garden, Section 18". The New York Times Magazine.

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