Postcard from Kashmir (Agha Shahid Ali)
About the Poet: - Agha Shahid Ali was born in New Delhi on February 4, 1949. He grew up in Kashmir
and was educated at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar and later University of Delhi. He earned his Ph.d
from Pennsylvania state University in 1984, and an MFA from the university of Arizona in 1985. Shahid
moved to the United States in 1976. Agha Shahid immortalized his homeland in his poetry. He transformed
the nature of English poetry to accommodate his original and authentic attitude towards language and
subject matter. As a diasporic writer, Kashmir, haunts the poet’s imagination and Shahid resurrects a poetic
image of the Far-away home land that characterizes the Kashmir of 1990s.
The Poetry Collections of Agha Shahid include Call Me Ishmail Tonight: A Book of Ghazals.
Rooms are never finished, the Country Without a Post Office, the Beleoved Witness, A Nostalgist’s Map of
America, the Half Inch Himalayas, etc.
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