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  • The Country without a Post Office: Poems

    Agha Shahid Ali

    Paperback

    "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

  • Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals

    Agha Shahid Ali

    Paperback

    "Ali's ghazals are contemporary and colloquial, deceptively simple, yet still grounded in tradition....Highly recommended."—Library Journal

  • Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems

    Agha Shahid Ali

    Paperback

    "An incomparable work, an unmatched achievement."—Anthony Hecht

  • Inferno: A New Verse Translation

    Dante Alighieri, Michael Palma

    Paperback

    "Palma's wonderfully readable translation comes close to perfection. I'm tempted to call it a miracle."—X. J. Kennedy

  • Fullblood Arabian

    Osama Alomar, C. J. Collins, Lydia Davis

    Paperback

    A New Directions Poetry Pamphlet by one of the most well-respected Arabic poets writing today, with an introduction by Lydia Davis