The Country Without a Post Office: Poems (Agha Shahid Ali)

by Agha Shahid Ali
The Country Without a Post Office: Poems (Agha Shahid Ali)  
published April 1998 by W. W. Norton & Company
binding Paperback
isbn 0393317617   (isbn13: 9780393317619)
pages 96
description A haunted and haunting volume that establishes this Kashmiri-American poet as a seminal voice writing in English. In this new collection, his most amb...more
date added
03-12-07



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Steven
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Among the grave subjects traveled through in this collection of Mr. Ali’s poems, which all stem from the political wars in his homeland of Kashmir, the most disturbing and affecting one for me is his inability to speak of his love and desire for other men. It’s ironic that, in his poems, Mr. Ali criticizes the government of his country for silencing the letters and voices of its people, examines the chasm between history and memory and repeatedly asks what is learned from the past, yet...more
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"My history gets in the way of your memory"
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