The Veiled Suite
Title | The Veiled Suite PDF eBook |
Author | Shahid Ali Agha |
Publisher | Penguin Books India |
Pages | 395 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0393068048 |
Beginning with the impassioned, never-before-published title poem, here is the life's work of a beloved Kashmiri-American poet. Agha Shahid Ali died in 2001, mourned by myriad lovers of poetry and devoted students. This volume, his shining legacy, moves from playful early poems to themes of mourning and loss, culminating in the ghazals of Call Me Ishmael Tonight. The title poem appears in print for the first time. from "The Veiled Suite" I wait for him to look straight into my eyes This is our only chance for magnificence. If he, carefully, upon this hour of ice, will let us almost completely crystallize, tell me, who but I could chill his dreaming night. Where he turns, what will not appear but my eyes? Wherever he looks, the sky is only eyes. Whatever news he has, it is of the sea.
The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems
Title | The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Agha Shahid Ali |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2009-02-04 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0393285073 |
Beginning with the impassioned, never-before-published title poem, here is the poet. Agha Shahid Ali died in 2001, mourned by myriad lovers of poetry and devoted students. This volume, his shining legacy, moves from playful early poems to themes of mourning and loss, culminating in the ghazals of Call Me Ishmael Tonight. The title poem appears in print for the first time. from “The Veiled Suite” I wait for him to look straight into my eyesThis is our only chance for magnificence.If he, carefully, upon this hour of ice,will let us almost completely crystallize,tell me, who but I could chill his dreaming night.Where he turns, what will not appear but my eyes?Wherever he looks, the sky is only eyes.Whatever news he has, it is of the sea.
The Veil Suite
Title | The Veil Suite PDF eBook |
Author | Izhar Patkin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Artists |
ISBN |
A meditation on love and loss, The Veil Suite is a collaboration between Israeli-born painter, Izhar Patkin, and Kashmir's most revered poet, the late Agha Shahid Ali. Shahid's poem, which uses Dante's form of the canzone, was written specifically for this collaboration, and is his last work.
Mad Heart Be Brave
Title | Mad Heart Be Brave PDF eBook |
Author | Kazim Ali |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2017-04-17 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0472053507 |
New essays, both personal and critical, on the work of beloved Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali
Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals
Title | Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals PDF eBook |
Author | Agha Shahid Ali |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 71 |
Release | 2004-10-17 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0393352048 |
"Ali's ghazals are contemporary and colloquial, deceptively simple, yet still grounded in tradition....Highly recommended."—Library Journal The beloved Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali presents his own American ghazals. Calling on a line or phrase from fellow poets, Ali salutes those known and loved—W. S. Merwin, Mark Strand, James Tate, and more—while in other searingly honest verse he courageously faces his own mortality.
Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems
Title | Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Agha Shahid Ali |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 2003-03-17 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0393352056 |
"An incomparable work, an unmatched achievement."—Anthony Hecht In this stunningly inventive collection—a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in poetry—Ali excavates the devastation wrought upon his childhood home, Kashmir, and reveals a more personal devastation: his mother's death and the journey with her body back to Kashmir.
A Map of Longings
Title | A Map of Longings PDF eBook |
Author | Manan Kapoor |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2023-02-28 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0300271530 |
The beautifully written first biography of one of the world’s finest twentieth-century poets Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001) was one of the most celebrated American poets of the latter twentieth century, and his works have touched millions of lives around the world. Traversing multiple geographies, cultures, religions, and traditions, he mapped the varied landscapes of the Indian subcontinent and the United States. In this biography, Manan Kapoor narrates Shahid’s evolution, following in the footsteps of the “Beloved Witness” from Kashmir and New Delhi to the American Southwest and Massachusetts. He charts Shahid’s friendships with literary figures such as James Merrill, Salman Rushdie, and Edward Said; explores how Shahid responded to events around the world, including the partition of the Indian subcontinent and the AIDS epidemic in America; and draws on unpublished materials and in-depth interviews to reveal the experiences and relationships that informed his poetry. Hailed upon its release in India as “lush” and “poetic,” A Map of Longings is the story of an extraordinary poet, the works he left behind, and the legacy of his singular poetic vision.