Split World: Poems 1990-2005

by Moniza Alvi

Moniza Alvi left Pakistan for England when a few months old. In her early work, she drew on real and imagined homelands in poems which are 'vivid, witty and imbued with unexpected and delicious glimpses of the surreal - this poet's third country' (Maura Dooley). Her less autobiographical later books are concerned not only with divisions between East and West but also with the interplay between inner and outer worlds, imagination and reality, physical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852248025
• ISBN13: 9781852248024
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"