Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems

"An incomparable work, an unmatched achievement."―Anthony Hecht

In this stunningly inventive collection―a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in poetry―Ali excavates the devastation wrought upon his childhood home, Kashmir, and reveals a more personal devastation: his mother's death and the journey with her body back to Kashmir.

• The Country without a Post Office: Poems (Agha Shahid Ali)
• A Nostalgist's Map of America: Poems
• The Art of the Lathe
• Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the World
• The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody (Copper Canyon Classics)
• Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals
• Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006
• The Half-Inch Himalayas (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
• The Fire Next Time
• Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters