In Memory of Begum Akhtar

Name: In Memory of Begum Akhtar
Author: Agha Shahid Ali

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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.

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