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Agha Shahid Ali on poetry

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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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Agha Shahid Ali
1998
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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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Naomi Shihab Nye (editor), Paul B. Janeczko (editor)
1999
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Agha Shahid Ali | The Country Without a Post Office [With Subtitles]

This poem is one of the best masterpieces by Agha Shahid Ali. It was originally called as “Kashmir Without a Post Office.”

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Agha Shahid Ali
2018
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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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Agha Shahid Ali
2003
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Prayer Rug

We are almost present in this poem, kneeling on the prayer rug, filled with faith and joy.

In respect of copyright, we cannot display the poem here. Click the link to read it.

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Agha Shahid Ali
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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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Agha Shahid Ali
1991
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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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Agha Shahid Ali
2010
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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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Agha Shahid Ali
2013
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