Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems

by Agha Shahid Ali

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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.

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Agha Shahid Ali was a finalist for the National Book Award for Rooms Are Never Finished. He taught at the University of Utah, the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He received Guggenheim and Ingram-Merrill fellowships, among others. He was born in New Delhi and grew up in Kashmir. He show more died in December 2001 show less

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Poetry, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
821.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesBritish Poetry1900-1900-19991945-1999
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PR9499.3 .A39 .R66Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish LiteratureEnglish literature: Provincial, local, etc.
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