Meena Alexander, Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is the author of several books of poetry, most recently Raw Silk and Illiterate Heart, winner of a 2002 PEN Open Book Award. Her memoir Fault Lines was one of Publishers Weekly's best books of 1993, and her novel Nampally Road was a 1991 Voice Literary Supplement Editor's Choice.
Quickly Changing River is an alluvial force of surprises reaching
near and far, always beckoning us closer and closer to its urgent
and magical source. From the collection's first poem to its last,
'Cosmopolitan' to 'August 14, 2004, ' there's a movement here that
challenges and enchants. Meena Alexander is a truth-teller who
knows how to make language do anything and everything she desires.
--Yusef Komunyakaa
These are poems of rich and satisfying detail-- gingko trees and
water taxis, the pearly feathers of pigeons. But the real strength
of this book goes far beyond detail, however lyrically rendered.
These poems are a sustained elegy for homelessness, for the
displacement at the heart of human life. Meena Alexander is an
eloquent and ambitious poet. -- Eavan Boland
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