Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems
by Agha Shahid Ali
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Read in April, 2008
Convoluted poetry - and not in the good way. I really enjoyed the closing poem, the title poem, and some of the Darwish translation - in tone, content, and structure - but otherwise the melding of eastern/western-isms makes it almost impossible to discern and interpret either without extensive appendices (which, of course, this volume doesn't find necessary). A firm understanding of Karbala tradition and Kashmiri history is a prerequisite, as they can't clearly be extrapolated from the text. And...more
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About being somewhere, but not really being there. Almost all the poems are about mourning, so they're better read on a rainy day or late in the day.
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