The Country Without a Post Office: Poems - Hardcover

Ali, Agha Shahid

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393040577 ISBN 13: 9780393040579

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1997

Synopsis

A collection of poems deals with the politics, history, and ravages of uprising in the author's homeland

About this title

About the Author:

Agha Shahid Ali is director of the writing program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His poems have appeared in Paris Review, Kenyon Review, The Nation, Grand Street, and elsewhere. His most recent collection was A Nostalgist's Map of America (Norton).

Review:

A strong and vibrant work, particularly in these tragic times. -- John Ashbery

After The August Wedding In Lahore, Pakistan
At The Museum
The City Of Daughters: A Poem About Kashmir
The Correspondent
The Country Without A Post Office
Death Row
Farewell
A Fate's Brief Memoir
First Day Of Spring
The Floating Post Office
A Footnote To History
Ghazal (3)
Ghazal (4)
Ghazal (5)
Hans Christian Ostro
A History Of Paisley
I Dream I Am The Only Passenger On Flight 423 To Srinagar
I See Kashmir From New Delhi At Midnight
The Last Saffron
Lo, A Tint Cashmere! Lo, A Rose!
Muharram In Srinagar, 1992
A Pastoral
Return To Harmony 3
Some Vision Of The World Cashmere
Son Et Lumiere At Shalimar Garden
A Villanelle
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Agha Shahid Ali's Kashmir, in his poems, is our own lost but inalienable homeland. . . . But the grace and wit, the perceptions and illuminations they serve, their accent, are his own. -- W. S. Merwin

Combining humane elegance and moral passion, Ali speaks for Kashmir in a large, generous, compassionate, powerful and urgent voice. . . . Few poets in this country have such a voice or such a topic. -- Hayden Carruth

Extraordinary formal precision and virtuosity. . . . This is poetry whose appeal is universal, its voice unerringly eloquent. A marvelous achievement. -- Edward Said

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0393040577
• ISBN 13: 9780393040579
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96