In 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.