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Book SynopsisIn Praise of Fragments is a collection of various and inter-related works, including a sequence of poems written about Venetian Jewish poet Sarra Copia Sulam (1592–1641), lyric essays about Venice, a suite of poems about Hyderabad, where Alexander lived for many years, and a series of brief sketches of memoir about her childhood in Kerala, the subject of her groundbreaking memoir Fault Lines. The writings are accompanied by a series of sumi ink drawings by Alexander and an afterword by Leah Suffrant.
Trade Review"From Venice to Hyderabad via Washington Heights, the poet’s last initiatory journeys: delicate and powerful evocations of a family history, of a Venetian Jewish woman writer, of herself till the end connecting words and worlds."—Marilyn Hacker
