Poetry
Early work
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The Bird’s Bright Ring (1976) (long poem)
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I Root My Name (Calcutta: United Writers, 1977) (collection)
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Without Place (Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1977) (long poem)
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In the Middle Earth (New Delhi: Enact, 1977) (performance piece)[25]
Collections
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Alexander, Meena (1981). Stone Roots. Arnold-Heinemann, India. ISBN 978-0862491093.
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Alexander, Meena (1988). House of a Thousand Doors: Poems and Prose Pieces. Three Continents Press. ISBN 9780894105548.[6][41]
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Alexander, Meena (1996). River and Bridge. TSAR Publications. ISBN 978-0920661567.[42]
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Alexander, Meena (2002). Illiterate Heart. TriQuarterly. ISBN 978-0810151178.[43][44][45]
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Alexander, Meena (2004). Raw Silk. TriQuarterly. ISBN 978-0810151567.[46]
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Alexander, Meena (2008). Quickly Changing River. TriQuarterly. ISBN 978-0810124509.[47]
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Alexander, Meena (2013). Birthplace with Buried Stones. TriQuarterly/ Northwestern University. ISBN 978-0-8101-5239-7.[48][31]
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Alexander, Meena (2018). Atmospheric Embroidery. TriQuarterly. ISBN 978-0810137608.[49]
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Alexander, Meena (2020). In Praise of Fragments. Nightboat Books. ISBN 978-1643620121.
Chapbooks
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Alexander, Meena (1989). The Storm: A Poem in Five Parts. New York: Red Dust. ISBN 9780873760621.
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Alexander, Meena (1992). Night-Scene, the Garden. New York: Red Dust. ISBN 978-0873760744.[50]
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Alexander, Meena (2011). Otto poesie da «Quickly changing river» (in Italian). Translated by Fazzini, Marco. Sinopia di Venezia. ISBN 9788895495330.[51]
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Impossible Grace: Jerusalem Poems (Al-Quds University, 2012)[24]
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Shimla (2012)
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Alexander, Meena (2015). Dreaming in Shimla: Letter to my Mother. Indian Institute of Advanced Study. ISBN 978-9382396314.[25]
Poetry and essays
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Alexander, Meena (1996). The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience. South End Press. ISBN 978-0-89608-545-9.[38][52][53]
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Alexander, Meena (2009). Poetics of Dislocation. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0472070763.[25][1][52][54]
Novels
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Alexander, Meena (1991). Nampally Road. Mercury House. ISBN 978-0-916515-82-9.[55][56][57][58]
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Alexander, Meena (1996). Manhattan Music. Mercury House. ISBN 978-1-56279-092-9.[59][60][61][57][53]
Memoirs
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Alexander, Meena (1993). Fault Lines. Feminist Press. ISBN 1-55861-058-8.[62][63][64][57][53][65]
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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
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Alexander, Meena (1979). The Poetic Self: Towards a Phenomenology of Romanticism. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press. ISBN 9780391017542.
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Alexander, Meena (1989). Women in Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley. Basingstoke: Macmillan Education. ISBN 9780333391693.
Edited works
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Alexander, Meena, ed. (2005). Indian Love Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 9781400042258. (US) ISBN 9781841597577 (UK)
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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
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Gopi Kottoor, ed. (2000). A New Book of Indian Poems in English. Writers Workshop. ISBN 9788175957282.
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Anand Kumar, ed. (2017). Travelogue : The Grand Indian Express. Authorspress. ISBN 978-9381030776.
Appearances in periodicals
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Year
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First published
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Reprinted/collected
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"Acqua Alta"
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2008
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Alexander, Meena. Quickly Changing River (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2008)
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Kejriwal, Rohini (19 November 2017). "Five poems (or five ways) to go to the sea in November". Scroll.in. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
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"Lady Dufferin's Terrace"
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2011
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Alexander, Meena (5 September 2011). "Lady Dufferin's Terrace". The New Yorker.
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Alexander, Meena (2013). Birthplace with Buried Stones. TriQuarterly/ Northwestern University. ISBN 978-0-8101-5239-7.
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"Experimental Geography"
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2013
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Alexander, Meena (16 September 2013). "Weekly Poem: 'Experimental Geography'". PBS NewsHour.
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Alexander, Meena (2013). Birthplace with Buried Stones. TriQuarterly/ Northwestern University. ISBN 978-0-8101-5239-7.
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"Kochi by the sea"
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2018
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Alexander, Meena (12–19 February 2018). "Kochi by the sea". The New Yorker. Vol. 94, no. 1. pp. 44–45.
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"Where Do You Come From?"
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2018
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Alexander, Meena (4 July 2018). "Where Do You Come From?". Poetry Foundation.
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"Grandmother’s Garden, Section 18"
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2020
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Alexander, Meena (23 January 2020). "Poem: Grandmother's Garden, Section 18". The New York Times Magazine.
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