A Nostalgist's Map of America: Poems

Ali, Agha Shahid

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ISBN 10: 039330924X ISBN 13: 9780393309249

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1991

Language: English

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Title

A Nostalgist's Map of America: Poems

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Publication Date

1991

Language

English

ISBN 10

039330924X

ISBN 13

9780393309249

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

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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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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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