| Country Without a Post Office: Poems Contributor(s): Ali, Agha Shahid (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393317617 ISBN-13: 9780393317619 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1998 Annotation: "Combining humane elegance and moral passion, (Agha Shahid) 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Asian - General |
| Dewey: 821 |
| LCCN: 96038242 |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 5.53" W x 8.23" (0.33 lbs) 98 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian - Ethnic Orientation - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of poems by Kashmiri-American Agha Shahid Ali finds that contemporary history has forced him to return to his homeland, not with the ease of a tourist, but as a witness to the savagery visited upon Kashmir since the 1990 uprisings. These poems evoke the tragedy of his birthplace. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ali, Agha Shahid: - 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. |