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A review by megha_singhal
The Country Without a Post Office: Poems by Agha Shahid Ali
4.0
This was increasingly really tough for me to read, to quote another reviewer, because Agha Shahid Ali writes in blood and not in ink.
It is an exceptional collection of his poetry, one that I foresee I will revisit several times. Notable ones that stood out for me - Farewell ("My memory is again in the way of your history/ Your history gets in the way of my memory") , I See Kashmir from New Delhi at Midnight, The Pastoral ("Is history deaf there, across the oceans?") and The Country Without a Post Office.
Another thing quite remarkable about Ali is that he purely writes Urdu in English and I am strangely so here for it?
It is an exceptional collection of his poetry, one that I foresee I will revisit several times. Notable ones that stood out for me - Farewell ("My memory is again in the way of your history/ Your history gets in the way of my memory") , I See Kashmir from New Delhi at Midnight, The Pastoral ("Is history deaf there, across the oceans?") and The Country Without a Post Office.
Another thing quite remarkable about Ali is that he purely writes Urdu in English and I am strangely so here for it?