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Agha Shahid Ali. Rooms Are Never Finished.

Publication: World Literature Today
Publication Date: 22-MAR-02 		Format: Online - approximately 640 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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New York. Norton. 2002. 106 pages $22. ISBN 0-393-04149-2

ALTHOUGH HIS BOOKS had good reviews and sold unusually well for poetry, Agha Shahid Ali died just when he was beginning to receive national recognition in America. Rooms Are Never Finished was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The title poem, like many of his works, epitomizes the continual to-ing and fro-ing between past and present, home and exile, here and there, that are characteristic of his poetry, just as its formalism frames, memorializes, and gives structure to what other poets...

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