Agha Shahid Ali: 3 books
by Agha Shahid Ali
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2004
"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...
by Agha Shahid Ali
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
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...
by Agha Shahid Ali
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2003
"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.