A Nostalgist's Map of America: Poems
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A Nostalgist's Map of America: Poems
Book Details
- Author
- Agha Shahid Ali
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- United States
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780393309249
- ISBN-10
- 039330924X
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ISBN: 039330924X
Author: Ali, Agha Shahid
Condition: New
With his prologue poem "Eurydice," Agha Shahid Ali's Nostalgist introduces the motifs of journey and exile, myth and politics, history and loss, that animate this collection. Mapping America as he travels westward, the Nostalgist is an exile from his native Kashmir, and even from his first American home; his is the unique perspective of the outsider. These jeweled, intricate poems, like the multilayered "In Search of Evanescence," locate and reflect the America that must be "unseen to be believed."Somewhere between cartographer and stargazer, the Nostalgist links images of water, desert, and myth, returning to Tucson in the monsoons, or seeing Chile in his rearview mirror, all the while creating an intense and vital vision.
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