Fault Lines - by Meena Alexander (Paperback)

Fault Lines is a powerful and evocative memoir by Meena Alexander, an acclaimed Indian poet, that explores writing, memory, and place in a post-9/11 world.

With poetic insight and devastating honesty, Alexander examines how trauma and recovery shaped her entire landscape of memory - of her family, her writing process, and her very self.

This new edition features a commemorative afterword celebrating Alexander's legacy. Alexander's writing is imbued with a poetic grace shot through with an inner violence, like a shimmering piece of two-toned silk (Ms.

Magazine).

Evocative and moving (Publishers Weekly), Fault Lines does not begin or end, but unfolds and shatters, threatening to repeat these motions infinitely, like the geodesic patterns viewed through a kaleidoscope (Paperback Paris). Meena Alexander's acute poetic sensibility makes this memoir a joy to read, grounded enough to evoke the earthier loam of violence and reality (Bapsi Sidhwa).

With a pulsing account of her growing pains as a poet and meditations on her experiences as a 'dark female body,' Alexander enacts the process of decolonizing the imagination as ongoing, fractured, never fixed, but always sensual, full of 'the fluid stuff of desire' (Vidhu Aggarwal). In Fault Lines, Alexander tells us - and herself - that 'we need a speech that acknowledges rage.' Now more than ever, we need her voice.

With a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's keen eye for language and a passionate advocate's commitment to social justice, Meena Alexander's Fault Lines is an unforgettable memoir that will leave readers with a newfound appreciation for the power of poetry to heal and transform.