This article attempts a reassessment of the political aspirations within Agha Shahid Ali’s poetics through a close reading of The Country without a Post Office. Although Shahid’s formal innovations have often been prioritized over his political commitments within scholarly evaluations of his work, I contend that in this collection, Agha Shahid Ali practices a “poetics of rupture”: holding themes of coherence and disruption, continuity and breakage, the global and the local in sustained tension with each other throughout the volume. Forged through a political commitment to represent Kashmir in crisis, his poetics of rupture is simultaneously formally founded on breakage and discontinuity, and itself ruptures, as I eventually propose, the very binaries (poetics versus polemics, personal versus political, local versus global) that shadow political poetry. I demonstrate the specifics of Shahid’s poetics of rupture through an analysis of his work with literary allusions and poetic forms. Eventually, this article contends that recognizing the political import of his poetics of rupture has consequences for our recognition of the crisis in Kashmir itself and the ethical and formal possibilities surrounding the representation of this crisis.

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“信仰的难民”：阿迦·沙希德·阿里的断裂诗学

本文试图通过仔细阅读 Agha Shahid Ali 的诗学来重新评估政治抱负。没有邮局的国家。尽管沙希德的形式创新在对其作品的学术评价中经常被优先于他的政治承诺，但我认为，在这个集合中，Agha Shahid Ali 实践了一种“断裂的诗学”：保持连贯和中断、连续和断裂的主题，全球在整本书中，当地都处于持续的紧张状态。通过在危机中代表克什米尔的政治承诺，他的断裂诗学同时在形式上建立在断裂和不连续性之上，而且正如我最终提出的那样，它本身也断裂了，这正是二元论（诗学与论战，个人与政治，地方与全球）影子政治诗。我通过分析他的文学典故和诗歌形式的作品来展示沙希德断裂诗学的细节。最终，