#MeenaAlexander (17/02/1951 - 2018), Indian American poet, scholar, and writer. [source : Wikipedia]
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"Revenant", Meena Alexander
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I had thought this was for a loved one, but Meena herself succumbed to cancer in 2018.
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"BIRTHPLACE WITH BURIED STONES"
– Meena Alexander
I first came across this poem as an opening to one of my advisors' essays on the social text. I've been moved since.
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Standing apart I looked at her and said –
We have poetry
So we do not die of history.
I had no idea what I meant.
-Meena Alexander, "Question Time" (2013)
(Inspired by a questioner at a reading who demanded, "What use is poetry?")
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