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South India originated and the United States of America living woman Poet Meena Alexander was one of the greatest Postcolonial poets and in her writings, the profound presence of the language of fragmentation and dislocation can be found. The most important feature of her poems is the creation of questions through fictionalizing the real-life characters and making them undergo the same realistic experiences. Furthermore, the pain of being a foreign-originated woman in such a racist continent of North America, as well as the discriminations woman poets always have to face are depicted clearly in her poems. This research article is the detailed discussions containing lines and examples of the poems written by Meena Alexander as well as her memoir called “Fault lines: a memoir”. In this study, the existence of the fragmented and dislocated mixture of different lingual and cultural features in her writings is discussed. This apart, the different dilemmas and trauma and the postcolonial global problems are analytically discussed in this study. In the conclusion phase, the philosophical approach, the data collection, and analysis method, and the future scope of this research is analyzed and a plan for the success of the research is made.