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A Nostalgist's Map of America: Poems
Mapping America as he travels westward, the Nostalgist is an exile from his native Kashmir, and even from his first American home; his is the unique perspective of the outsider. These jeweled, intricate poems, like the multilayered "In Search of Evanescence," locate and reflect the America that must be "unseen to be believed."Somewhere between cartograp...more
Paperback, 112 pages
Published
November 17th 1992
by W. W. Norton & Company
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Poems of loss and dispossession. Each one a song floating in on the sea.
Mourning while moving is a way to describe the overarching theme of this book. But to say this is a bit reductive. This, Shahid's most cohesive manuscript, does not disappoint. I want to write a book this good. I've bought four copies: one for myself and have given away three. This is a book to be shared.
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Agha Shahid Ali (आगा शाहीद अली) was an American poet of Kashmiri ancestry and upbringing.
His poetry collections include A Walk Through the Yellow Pages, The Half-Inch Himalayas, A Nostalgist's Map of America, The Country Without a Post Office, Rooms Are Never Finished (finalist for the National Book Award, 2001). His last book was Call Me Ishmael Tonight, a collection of English ghazal...more
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His poetry collections include A Walk Through the Yellow Pages, The Half-Inch Himalayas, A Nostalgist's Map of America, The Country Without a Post Office, Rooms Are Never Finished (finalist for the National Book Award, 2001). His last book was Call Me Ishmael Tonight, a collection of English ghazal...more
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