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Extraordinary formal precision and virtuosity. . . . This is poetry whose appeal is universal, its voice unerringly eloquent. A marvelous achievement.--Edward Said
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"Combining humane elegance and moral passion, (Agha Shahid) Ali speaks for Kashmir in a large, generous, compassionate, powerful and urgent voice. . . . Few poets in this country have such a voice or such a topic".--Hayden Carruth. "Extraordinary formal precision and virtuosity. . . . This is poetry whose appeal is universal, its voice unerringly eloquent. A marvelous achievement".--Edward Said.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
"I am being rowed through Paradise on a river of Hell"
This line in the front of Salman Rushdie's 'Shalimar the Clown' led me to buy this book. The two previous reviewers would, I suspect, have the same reaction to Rushdie's novel which does, graphically, detail the dismemberment of the ancient culture of toleration in Kashmir.
Agha Shahid Ali deals however with loss and the unspeakable pain that cannot be communicated adequately in words, but that poetry can point to. The title and poems evoke the trapped sensation of those experiencing the pain of the voiceless facing arbitrary violence.
I read the book during an armed conflict and each page resonated with what I saw and felt around me. Agha Shahid Ali maybe isn't the world's greatest word-smith but he is honest to what he experienced and remembered of Kashmir. His humour in person was a foil to the aching pain of his poems.
This is an exile's elegy for Kashmir and a brave attempt to give voice to the voiceless pain of the victims of conflict. It felt like a companion in dark times and places. Places where:
"They make a desolation and call it peace"
This line in the front of Salman Rushdie's 'Shalimar the Clown' led me to buy this book. The two previous reviewers would, I suspect, have the same reaction to Rushdie's novel which does, graphically, detail the dismemberment of the ancient culture of toleration in Kashmir.
Agha Shahid Ali deals however with loss and the unspeakable pain that cannot be communicated adequately in words, but that poetry can point to. The title and poems evoke the trapped sensation of those experiencing the pain of the voiceless facing arbitrary violence.
I read the book during an armed conflict and each page resonated with what I saw and felt around me. Agha Shahid Ali maybe isn't the world's greatest word-smith but he is honest to what he experienced and remembered of Kashmir. His humour in person was a foil to the aching pain of his poems.
This is an exile's elegy for Kashmir and a brave attempt to give voice to the voiceless pain of the victims of conflict. It felt like a companion in dark times and places. Places where:
"They make a desolation and call it peace"
0 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Kashmir is truly a paradise on earth. It's called Switzerland within India. Kashmir needs peace. I happened to be in Houston when Mr. Shahid Ali an Indian American poet with roots in Kashmir, India read his poems at the Brown Auditorium in the Houston culture district.
Its sad to see Kashmiri people (Kashmiri Pandits and Muslims ) being refugees in their own country. Pakistan should stop this proxy war and stop infiltrating extemists trained in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Shahid said " We artsy folks derive pure pleasure from simply shocking the audience. Lord Byron did it, Oscar Wilde did it and the master manipulator Shakespeare set the standards. What was clear in Shahid's manner was his complete arrogance and lack of respect for the audience intermingled with humility that would take the time to come. says Minoo Shah. His readings were spiced with humorous anecdotes.
0 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
How can a country have no post office? The idea is so far off I cant believe anyone would write a book about it. And the poems? They're really boring, full of hard to pronounce words and I think lots of forms. I asked a friend of mine she writes poems and posts them on AOL about the title and she said it was a metaphor, but I still think its a bad idea to call a book after somethingpeople won't understand. My friend didn't understand the forms either.
Its a pretty book, though, with nice paper. Looks good on the shelf. All in all, I'm glad this book was a gift, I sure would hate to buy it with my own money.
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