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by Shahid Ali Agha

W. W. Norton and Co.

Due/Published November 2001, 96 pages, cloth

ISBN 0393041492

In his previous collection, The Country Without a Post Office, Agha Shahid Ali excavated the devastation wrought upon Kashmir, his childhood home. Here he reveals a more personal devastation: his mother's death and the journey with her body back to Kashmir. The result is a poetry of stunning formal inventiveness, infused with passion and grief.

Author Biography: Agha Shahid Ali has a home in Brooklyn and teaches at the University of Utah.