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Agha Shahid Ali is among the handful of post-independence Indian poets to have gained international recognition as a writer of great originality and technical accomplishment. In this volume of new poems, the last to be published within his lifetime, Agha Shahid Ali follows the trail of his previous collection titled The Country Without a Post Office in order to excavate the devastation wrought upon Kashmir, his childhood home—the place about which he felt most ...
Here is a haunted and haunting volume that establishes Agha Shahid Ali as a seminal voice writing in English. Commenting on the American edition, first published in 1997, Edward Said observed: ‘The extraordinary formal precision and virtuosity of these poems, as well as their often searing imagery, derives from Agha Shahid Ali’s responses to Kashmir’s agony. But this is poetry whose appeal is universal, its voice unerringly eloquent: A marvellous ...
In Call Me Ishmael Tonight the poet offers a new form-the American Ghazal-written as salutation to his eminent poet contemporaries in the USA. In this he also courageously faces the fact of his own mortality. In Rooms are Never Finished the poet follows the trail of his previous collection titled the Country Without a Post Office in order to excavate the devastation wrought upon Kashmir, his childhood home-the place about which he felt most deeply. He links a ...