ALI, Agha Shahid. The Country Without a Post Office.

New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.
 
8vo.; in green cloth with gilt titles; with dust-jacket. Fine.
 
First edition, signed and inscribed by Ali: “for Paul Muldoon whose wild double [?] ghazal is already his passport to this country, but it awaits the conventional one, that VISA/passport which he will touch with the coasts of Ireland – Warmly – Shahid / March ‘97”. This much acclaimed long poem takes its inspiration from the 1990 Kashmiri uprising against India; Joseph Donahue described this collection as “the first of the two volumes that form the peak of [Ali’s] achievement.”