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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785727303321

Autore

Agha Shahid Ali <1949-2001>

Titolo

The half-inch Himalayas [[electronic resource] /] / Agha Shahid Ali

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press

Scranton, Pa., : Distributed by Harper & Row, c1987

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (57 p. ; ; 22 cm.)

Collana

South and Southeast Asian literature

Wesleyan new poets

Disciplina

821

Soggetti

Poetry - Themes, motives

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Postcard from Kashmir; I; A Lost Memory of Delhi; A Dream of Glass Bangles; Snowmen; Cracked Portraits; Story of a Silence; Prayer Rug; The Dacca Gauzes; The Season of the Plains; II; A Monsoon Note on Old Age; A Butcher; The Fate of the Astrologer Sitting on the Pavement Outside the Delhi Railway Station; After Seeing Kozintsev's King Lear in Delhi; Chandni Chowk, Delhi; Cremation; In Memory of Begum Akhtar; Homage to Faiz Ahmed Faiz; III; A Wrong Turn; Vacating an Apartment; The Previous Occupant; Leaving Your City; Philadelphia, 2:00 A.M.

Sommario/riassunto

A stellar collection of early work from a renowned poet.