The Half-Inch Himalayas is a stellar collection of early work by the poet Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001). His most recent volumes of poetry are Rooms Are Never Finished and The Country Without a Post Office. He is also the editor of Ravishing Disunities: Real Ghazals in English.
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With these two books, Wesleyan continues to present some of the more interesting new poets emerging today. Agha's well-organized collection traces his physical and spiritual journey from New Delhi to America. While the poet's craft is considerable, readers will be drawn in primarily by his subject. The few poems focusing on present-day America become contrived, making use of too easily surreal images, but the final poemssix short piecesare haunting, strikingly honest dreams of home and concern for the safety of friends and relatives show Agha at his finest. Stringer's poems are more surreal, less directly personal. They use images of waterseas, lakes, floodsto convey pure desperation. The speaker seems to change places with an unidentified "you," trying on masks to find a trapped, abandoned self. These poems keep the reader's attention, as we join the poet in his frantic search to solve his own mystery. Rochelle Ratner, formerly Poetry Editor, "Soho Weekly News," New York
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"Wondrous Poems.... [B]y an original, passionate mind." -- David Ignatow
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Beautifully nostalgic, luminous, intelligent.,
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This review is from: The Half-Inch Himalayas (Wesleyan Poetry Series) (Paperback)
I cannot forget the feel of these poems; they have taken on a life of their own in my mind. What a beautiful, empathy-filled voice! Ali renders in elegant, modest verse the complexities and, strangely, the beauty of an exilic, postcolonial existence. An arrow through the heart of modern cosmopolitanism.
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like eating pomegranates in a warm rain,
By brigid o'shaughnessy (San Francisco, California United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Half-Inch Himalayas (Wesleyan Poetry Series) (Paperback)
wonderful simple poems of such incredible elegance. softer than his later poems, he is as likely to speak of the southwestern desert as of kashmir. his poems are like water, a necessity. i am really glad i searched this little volume of poems out, his ability to say so much in so few words always impresses me.
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