Research Catalog

Title

The country at my shoulder / Moniza Alvi.

Author

Alvi, Moniza.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

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Details

Description

56 p.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Oxford poets

Uniform Title

Oxford poets.

Subject

Pakistan > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I Was Raised in a Glove Compartment -- Pilgrimage -- Neighbourhood -- Hydrangeas -- The Afterworld -- I Make Pencil Drawings, Scribbles, Bales of Hay -- I Would Like to be a Dot in a Painting by Miro -- Hill -- On Glastonbury Tor -- Red Ridinghood's Plan -- The Garden -- Dream of Uncle -- Man of Tree and Fern -- On Dunton Bridge -- Meeting an Ex-Pupil on a Spring Morning -- In Newspaper -- Throwing Out my Father's Dictionary -- Indian Cooking -- Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan -- Arrival 1946 -- Luckbir -- The Country at my Shoulder -- The Sari -- Map of India -- When Jaswinder Lets Loose her Hair -- The Asian Fashion Show -- The Draught -- Domain -- Etching -- The Air Was Full of Starfish -- The Great Pudding -- When We Ask to Leave Our City -- On Finding a Letter to Mrs Vickers on the Pennine Way -- Housebreaker -- Afternoon at the Cinema -- Pink Ear-Plugs -- You Are Turning Me into a Novel -- The Fire-Walk -- The Bees -- Ladybirds, Icebirds -- Spring on the Hillside.

ISBN

0192831259

LCCN

^^^93015598^/AC

OCLC

• 27934888
• SCSB-12423581

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library