Book: 'The Country without a Post Office: Poems' by Agha Shahid Ali

[lyryk]

Widely regarded as Kashmir’s national poet, Agha Shahid Ali was born in Kashmir in 1949 and died in the US in 2001. His work has been included in a range of anthologies with disparate topics, varying from Harold Bloom’s Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems to Hoshang Merchant’s Yaarana: Gay Writing from South AsiaI’ll focus here on one

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[magnetic_pole]

Such rich, suggestive language. (The collection title drew me right in and got me thinking.) Thanks, L! M.

[lyryk]

Glad you liked it, Maggie!

[lyras]

Thank you. I'm always on the lookout for poetry, and had never heard of him before. I love the mood of these excerpts.

[lyryk]

I'm always on the lookout for poetry too. Happy you found the poem appealing. :-)