Description: In this inventive collection, a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in poetry 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.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes: "Ali commands a range of feelings available to few poets now writing in English An incomparable work, an unmatched achievement."