";s:4:"text";s:4025:" Take a poetry road trip across the United States and abroad with this curated collection of poems about vacation and travel, videos on poetic trips and poets abroad, poetry landmarks, walking tours, featured poetry books for literary travelers, and postcards from poets on summer vacations. Why I read poetry, and why this exists; A random poem, a random day, a chance; Postcards. Ali wrote nine poetry collections and a book of literary criticism (T.S. Unlike many other such anthologies, it includes literary non-fiction as well as poetry, short fiction, and drama. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman. Kashmir physically becomes the postcard in his mailbox (metaphor). 'Postcards Kashmir' is a project to reach out to the people of Kashmir with handwritten letters to express our love and solidarity. The first section, “Postcards from Vermont,” is composed of poems about Vermont towns and historical landmarks. In Agha Shahid Ali’s poem titled “Postcard from Kashmir,” the speaker describes receiving a postcard from his native land, “Kashmir,” a region of the Indian subcontinent.
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Postcards from the Interior is a collection of postcard poems written from different geographical locations and varied states of heart and mind. A Kashmiri American Muslim, Agha Shahid Ali is best known as a poet in the U.S. and identified himself as an American poet writing in English. He grew up in Kashmir, the son of a distinguished and highly educated family in Srinagar.
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Oumar Farouk Sesay is the son of Alhaji Alhusine Sesay and Haja Oumou Kultum Sesay. The use of the Kashmiri language began with the work Mahānaya-Prakāsha by Rājānaka Shiti Kantha (c.1250), and was followed by the poet Lalleshvari or Lal Ded (14th century), who wrote mystical verses in the vakh or four-line couplet style. Jan 27, 2006 01/06. Ali reminds the reader to be careful what they wish for, saying "I always loved neatness" when he is clearly upset about the loss of everything else about his home (irony). He attended Magburaka Government Secondary School for boys and later did his sixth form in Ahmadiyya School in Freetown. He studied political science and philosophy at Fourah Bay College. The Kashmir Syllabus has been compiled by a group of researchers and students and is a work in progress. This is home. And this the closest I'll ever be to home. Now I hold Kashmir shrinks into my mailbox, my home a neat four by six inches. A Kashmiri American Muslim, Agha Shahid Ali is best known as a poet in the U.S. and identified himself as an American poet writing in English. The Half-Inch Himalayas is a stellar collection of early work by the poet Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001). When I return, the colors won't be so brilliant, the Jhelum's waters so clean, so ultramarine. And my memory will be a little out of focus, in it a giant "Postcard from Kashmir" by Agha Shahid Ali Agha Shahid Ali "Postcard from Kashmir" Agha Shahid Ali was born in New Delhi, India in 1949. Please send us your work if we have missed it. His most recent volumes of poetry are Rooms Are Never Finished and The Country Without a Post Office. View All Posts There are people to send out postcards to. As a syllabus, it is not designed to be comprehensive or representative of all articles written on Kashmir or by scholars working on Kashmir.