The Country without a Post Office

✍ Scribed by Agha Shahid Ali

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 93
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Contents
About the Author
Dedication
The Blesséd Word: A Prologue
The Country Without a Post Office
I
Farewell
I See Kashmir from New Delhi at Midnight
The Last Saffron
I Dream I Am the Only Passenger on Flight 423 to Srinagar,
‘Some Vision of the World Cashmere’
‘Lo, A Tint Cashmere! / Lo, A Rose!’
Ghazal
II
Dear Shahid,
A Pastoral
Return to Harmony 3
The Country Without a Post Office
The Floating Post Office
The Correspondent
III
A Fate’s Brief Memoir
IV
At the Museum
A History of Paisley
A Footnote to History
Son et Lumière at Shalimar Garden
Ghazal
V
First Day of Spring
Ghazal
Death Row
The City of Daughters
Muharram in Srinagar, 1992
Hans Christian Ostro
A Villanelle
After the August Wedding in Lahore, Pakistan,
Notes
Acknowledgments
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Copyright Page