Rooms Are Never Finished
Poems
11 March 2003
Description
"An incomparable work, an unmatched achievement."—Anthony Hecht
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.
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
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
The Country without a Post Office: Poems
Paperback, 1998
"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
A Nostalgist's Map of America: Poems
Paperback, 1993
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.
