Nostalgist's Map of America

Agha Shahid Ali

ISBN 10: 039330924X / ISBN 13: 9780393309249

Published by Norton November 1991, 1991

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nostalgist's Map of America
• Publisher: Norton November 1991
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039330924X
• ISBN 13: 9780393309249
• Binding: Paper Back
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Mapping America as he travels westward, the Nostalgist is an exile from his native Kashmir, and even from his first American home; his is the unique perspective of the outsider. These jeweled, intricate poems, like the multilayered "In Search of Evanescence," locate and reflect the America that must be "unseen to be believed."

Somewhere between cartographer and stargazer, the Nostalgist links images of water, desert, and myth, returning to Tucson in the monsoons, or seeing Chile in his rearview mirror, all the while creating an intense and vital vision.

About the Author

Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) taught at the University of Utah, at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.