The Country without a Post Office
Poems
2 September 1998
Description
"Translucent elegies 'for the city that is leaving forever' (Srinagar) from one of its sons, who also happens to be one of America's finest younger poets."—John Ashbery
Reviews
"Extraordinary formal precision and virtuosity. . . . This is poetry whose appeal is universal, its voice unerringly eloquent. A marvelous achievement." — Edward Said
"Combining humane elegance and moral passion, Ali speaks for Kashmir in a large, generous, compassionate, powerful and urgent voice. . . . Few poets in this country have such a voice or such a topic." — Hayden Carruth
Also By: Agha Shahid Ali 
Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals
E Book, 2015
"Ali's ghazals are contemporary and colloquial, deceptively simple, yet still grounded in tradition....Highly recommended."—Library Journal
Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems
E Book, 2015
"An incomparable work, an unmatched achievement."—Anthony Hecht
The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems
Hardback, 2009
Beginning with the impassioned, never-before-published title poem, here is the poet.
Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals
Paperback, 2005
"Ali's ghazals are contemporary and colloquial, deceptively simple, yet still grounded in tradition....Highly recommended."—Library Journal
Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems
Paperback, 2003
"An incomparable work, an unmatched achievement."—Anthony Hecht