Name: The Country Without a Post Office
ISBN: 9780393317619

Agha Shahid Ali

"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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The Country Without a Post Office

Neeti Choudhari

It is so beautiful and heartbreaking that I can't even...

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Amidst rain and fire and ruin, in a land of ‘doomed addresses’, a poet evokes the tragedy of his birthplace. The Country Without a Post Office is a haunted and haunting volume that established Agha Shahid Ali as a seminal voice writing in English. In it are stunning poems of extraordinary formal precision and virtuosity, intensely musical, steeped in history, myth and politics, all merging into Agha Shahid Ali’s finest mode, that of longing.

The Country Without a Post Office Poems

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