In grieving poetry and eloquent prose Lalita Pandit Hogan explores the mind of Hindu Kashmiri exile. Her lines have the specificity of a place and time exactly registered. Her issues and questions throb with vital reference to present global issues and challenges. In A COUNTRY WITHOUT BORDERS, Hogan shares the look and feel of Kashmir before the cut of partition, the stop of borders: her grandmother's sun worship in the morning, domestic life in a solid four-story house in Kulgam, area bridges and tunnels freely traversed. An expatriate Hindu Kashmiri patriotism speaks in Hogan's text, but the poetic intelligence is that of Anglo-American transnationality, ironic, alienated. I'm constantly thinking of William Faulkner as I read this book. -- Neil Schmitz, Professor of English, University at Buffalo

It is the enigma of having lived in too many places and not being able to call any place home. . . . It makes one's mind a country without borders. In these stories and poems, the author enlists dreams, myths, family stories, and her own memories to resurrect the lush Kashmir of her youth, a place of saffron flowers and fruit trees, wedding parties and mountain shrines, pink tea and salt bread with fennel and sesame seeds. Then war with all its horrors, then the twin sadness of mourning and exile, pounding the concrete of foreign streets. A COUNTRY WITHOUT BORDERS is a remarkable testament, not only to one people's experience, but to all who walk with ghosts. -- Dr. John Roche, Associate Professor of English, Rochester Institute of Technology, author of ROAD GHOST (2010) and TOPICALITIES (2008)

What a feast for the senses! A. Robert Lee's verse courageously explores the pinnacles of artistic achievement; the fragments of a whole that kaleidoscope and then coalesce in the mind's eye. I felt as though I had traveled the globe, a witness to some of