Agha Shahid Ali
Kashmiri-American poet who elegized his homeland in luminous verse, reviving the ghazal form in English. The Country Without a Post Office is his most celebrated collection, a lyric of Kashmir's tragedy.
Works
- Bone Sculpture
- In Memory of Begum Akhtar
- A Nostalgist's Map of AmericaPoetry of exile, Kashmir, and the immigrant American experience
- The Country Without a Post OfficeGhazals about Kashmir, displacement, and absence during turmoil
- Call Me Ishmael TonightPoetry collection drawing on classical literary references and personal memory
- Rooms Are Never Finished
- The Half-Inch HimalayasGhazals and poems exploring loss, distance, and spiritual longing