A Nostalgist's Map of America: Poems - Softcover

Ali, Agha Shahid

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9780393309249: A Nostalgist's Map of America: Poems
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ISBN 10: 039330924X ISBN 13: 9780393309249
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991

Synopsis

With his prologue poem "Eurydice," Agha Shahid Ali's Nostalgist introduces the motifs of journey and exile, myth and politics, history and loss, that animate this collection.

Mapping America as he travels westward, the Nostalgist is an exile from his native Kashmir, and even from his first American home; his is the unique perspective of the outsider. These jeweled, intricate poems, like the multilayered "In Search of Evanescence," locate and reflect the America that must be "unseen to be believed."

Somewhere between cartographer and stargazer, the Nostalgist links images of water, desert, and myth, returning to Tucson in the monsoons, or seeing Chile in his rearview mirror, all the while creating an intense and vital vision.

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About the Author

Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) taught at the University of Utah, at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
039330924X
ISBN 13 
9780393309249
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
105
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