Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan
Posted September 22nd, 2007 by Mick Stancey
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Moniza Alvi was born in Lahore in Pakistan. She had a Pakistani father and an English mother.
She moved to Hatfield in England when she was a few months old.
She didn't revisit Pakistan until after her first book of poems was published which was 'The Country over my Shoulder' this poem comes from that collection.
The poet said that "Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan’’ was one of the first poems she wrote. In the poem the girl describes the gifts sent from her Aunts who live in Pakistan and her reactions to them.
The poem is autobiographical, the girl in the poem is the poet during her teens. She feels uncomfortably caught between two cultures as she is growing up.
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