Birthplace with buried stones [electronic resource] : poems / Meena Alexander.

Includes bibliographical references.

Morning ritual -- Lychees -- Red bird -- Bryant park -- Near Sendai -- Bamboo -- Suite 19, Viceregal Lodge -- Landscape with ghost -- Lady Dufferin's terrace -- Lady Dufferin writes to her mother -- June air -- Sun, stone -- In the garden of freemasons -- Landscape with kurinji flowers -- Damage -- Cantata for a riderless horse -- Mother, windblown -- Boy from rum -- Nocturnal with ghostly landscape on St. Lucy's Day -- Jerusalem poems -- Teatro Olimpico -- Nocturne -- Cobblestones and heels -- Indian hospice -- Garden in Nazareth -- Impossible grace -- Mamilla Cemetery -- House of clouds -- Song for Isaac -- La prima volta -- Autobiography -- Water crossing -- Summer splendor -- Migrant memory -- For my father, Karachi 1947 -- Birthplace with buried stones -- Question time -- Afterwards, your loneliness -- Plot of tiger lilies -- Lost garden -- Stump work -- Star drift -- Graduation 1949 -- Reading Imru' al-Qays on the subway -- On Indian Road -- Elegy -- Stone bridge -- Snow -- Sita's abduction with shadow puppets -- Red boat.

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