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In this haunting collection of poems we travel through zones of violence to reach the crystalline depths of words--Meena Alexander writes `So landscape becomes us, / Also an interior space bristling with light`. At the heart of this book is the poem cycle 'Indian Ocean Blues', a sustained meditation on the journey of the poet as a young child from India to Sudan. There are poems inspired by the drawings of children from war torn Darfur and others set in New York City in the present. These sensual lyrics of body, memory and place evoke the fragile, shifting nature of dwelling in our times.