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Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems

Agha Shahid Ali

In this stunningly inventive collection--a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in poetry--Ali excavates the devastation wrought upon his childhood home, Kashmir, and reveals a more personal devastation: his mother's death and the journey with her body back to Kashmir.

Book Details

  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date: Mar 1st, 2003
  • Pages: 108
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Revised - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.30in - 5.48in - 0.38in - 0.36lb
  • EAN: 9780393324167
  • Categories: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshAsian - GeneralSubjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss

About the Author

Ali, Agha Shahid: - Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) taught at the University of Utah, at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Praise for this book

"Ali commands a range of feelings available to few poets now writing in English An incomparable work, an unmatched achievement."