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The Country at My Shoulder (Oxford Poets) | 
 enlarge | Author: Moniza Alvi
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2605697
Media: Paperback
Pages: 64
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.2
ISBN: 0192831259
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.914
EAN: 9780192831255
ASIN: 0192831259
Publication Date: December 2, 1993
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Product Description
This is Moniza Alvi's first full-length poetry collection, and includes a number of poems which won the 1991 Poetry Business Competition. At the heart of the collection is a group of poems called "Presents from Pakistan," which explores the gathering significance to the poet of her birthplace. Many people today have a "country at their shoulder"--a homeland left behind, or a birthplace seldom, perhaps never, visited, but nevertheless a vital part of their imaginary and real lives. Highlighting the uneasy as well as the celebratory, these poems are diverse in both subject and approach. They are written with a light touch, but they are rich in imagery, and the poet's voice, though delicate, is distinct and memorable.
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A beautifully-written, thought-provoking collection October 12, 2008
Karen Remedios
It is indeed a pity that Alvi's collection isn't read and studied more widely. The poems, which are clever yet accessible, deal mainly with the experience of immigration and the challenges that immigrants face in their adopted country. In constructing the psychological struggles of these cultural hybrids, Pakistan-born Alvi who now resides in the UK, draws on her own diasporic status. "Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan", which captures the simultaneous pride, embarrassment and unworthiness a young Asian girl in Britain feels in relation to the country of her birth, is easily the best poem in the volume.
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