Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems ."Anthony Hecht In this stunningly inventive collectiona finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in poetryAli 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.
| Title | : | Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems |
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (263 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393324168 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2003-03-17 |
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"An incomparable work, an unmatched achievement."Anthony Hecht In this stunningly inventive collectiona finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in poetryAli 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.
Editorial : From Publishers Weekly The direct inspiration for Ali's new volume was his mother's death and the subsequent journey back to his homeland of Kashmir with her body. In his prose introduction, mother and motherland are strangely, strongly linked, and Ali, who has made a career of lyric ponderings of the permutations of exile and expatriate life, is left to negotiate the landscape of loss, its contours altered by the intrusion of the intensely personal. Ali has always been the one "with laments found lost on my lips," the post-colonial poet mourning dead aspects of his native culture while championing the complexity of his tripartite heritage. In The Country Without a Post Office, these themes were galvanized by the eruption of internecine war in Indian-held Kashmir, and by Ali's adoption of the tightly repetitive, traditional Arabic form of the ghazal. This latest volume balances formal elegy with a deliberate refusal to "finish rooms," figured perhaps most poignantly by the refusal to c
Three and a half stars bumped up to 4 because the art's nice.
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