Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals write by Agha Shahid Ali. This book was released on 2004-10-17. Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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
Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems write by Agha Shahid Ali. This book was released on 2003-03-17. Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
Ravishing DisUnities
Ravishing DisUnities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ravishing DisUnities write by Agha Shahid Ali. This book was released on 2000-11-03. Ravishing DisUnities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A star-studded anthology infuses English poetry with the rigor and wit of a foreign form. In recent years, the ghazal (pronounced "ghuzzle"), a traditional Arabic form of poetry, has become popular among contemporary English language poets. But like the haiku before it, the ghazal has been widely misunderstood and thus most English ghazals have been far from the mark in both letter and spirit. This anthology brings together ghazals by a rich gathering of 107 poets including Diane Ackerman, John Hollander, W. S. Merwin, William Matthews, Paul Muldoon, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and many others. As this dazzling collection shows, the intricate and self-reflexive ghazal brings the writer a unique set of challenges and opportunities. Agha Shahid Ali's lively introduction gives a brief history of the ghazal and instructions on how to compose one in English. An elegant afterword by Sarah Suleri Goodyear elucidates the larger issues of cultural translation and authenticity inherent in writing in a "borrowed" form.
The Veiled Suite
The Veiled Suite - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Veiled Suite write by Shahid Ali Agha. This book was released on 2009. The Veiled Suite available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Country Without a Post Office
The Country Without a Post Office - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Country Without a Post Office write by Agha Shahid Ali. This book was released on 2000. The Country Without a Post Office available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Here Is A Haunted And Haunting Volume That Establishes Agha Shahid Ali As A Seminal Voice Writing In English. Amidst Rain And Fire And Ruin, In A Land Of `Doomed Addresses`, The Poet Evokes The Tragedy Of His Birth Place, Kashmir.
