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Agha Shahid Alibooks

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Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001) was an Indian American Kashmiri poet and teacher. Shahid’s often cathartic poems are marked by a language of longing and moments of transformation even in the face of historical, cultural, and personal upheaval. His collection Rooms Are Never Finished was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2001.

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The Country Without a Post Office: Poems

“Translucent elegies ‘for the city that is leaving forever’ (Srinagar) from one of its sons, who also happens to be one of America’s finest younger poets.”―John Ashbery

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I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: A Book of Her Poems & His Poems Collected in Pairs

In this insightful anthology, the editors grouped almost 200 poems into pairs to demonstrate the different ways in which male and female poets see the same topics.

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Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems

In this stunningly inventive collection―a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in poetry―Ali excavates the devastation wrought upon his childhood home, Kashmir, and reveals a more personal devastation: his mother's death and the journey with her body back to Kashmir.

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A Nostalgist’s Map of America: Poems

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.

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The Veiled Suite—The Collected Poems

The Veiled Suite collects the life’s work of the Kashmiri-American poet, drawing from a remarkable range of sources that span continents and cultures.

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Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals

The beloved Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali presents his own American ghazals. Calling on a line or phrase from fellow poets, Ali salutes those known and loved―W. S. Merwin, Mark Strand, James Tate, and more―while in other searingly honest verse he courageously faces his own mortality.

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