Critical essays on the transnational KashmiriAmerican poet.Featuring essays by American Indian and British scholars this collection offers critical appraisals and personal reflections on the life and work of the transnational poet Agha Shahid Ali 19492001. Though sometimes identified as an Indian writer in English Shahid came to designate himself as a KashmiriAmerican writer in exile in the United States where he lived for the latter half of his life publishing seven volumes of poetry and teaching at colleges and universities across the country. Locating Shahid in a diasporic space of exile the volume traces the poets transnationalist attempts to bridge East and West and his movement toward a true internationalism.