Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems Revised Edition Contributor(s): Ali, Agha Shahid (Author), Agha, Shahid Ali (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393324168 ISBN-13: 9780393324167 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $17.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2003 Annotation: In this inventive collection, a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in poetry 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Poetry | Asian - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss |
Dewey: 821.914 |
Series: Poems |
Physical Information: 0.38" H x 5.48" W x 8.3" (0.36 lbs) 108 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Indian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): 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. |