Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 08:48:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: bhaatasari <gajjala+-AT-pitt.edu>
Subject: meena alexander reading (fwd)




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Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 12:52:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert A Cessna <rac4-AT-columbia.edu>
To: Robert A Cessna <rac4-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: meena alexander reading (fwd)



FROM THE SOUTHERN ASIAN INSTITUTE>
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>Meena Alexander
>reads from her new novel
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>MANHATTAN MUSIC
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>Thursday May 29, 1997
>7:30-8:30 pm
>Reading and Book signing
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>Barnes and Noble
>2289 Broadway -AT- 82nd Street
>(212)362-8835
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>`Alexander's writing is imbued with a poetic grace shot through with an
>inner violence... With her gift of heightened poetic sensibility she can
>take a tragic, violent situation and juxtapose it with a description of
>terrible beauty.' --`MS.'
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>The rich tapestry of `Manhattan Music' deals with the lives of Indian
>immigrants in present day New York City. 
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