Download or read book The Veiled Suite written by Shahid Ali Agha and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2009 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Veiled Suite written by Agha Shahid Ali and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blended with the intricacies of European and Urdu traditional cultures, the poetic works of Agha Shahid Ali had the power to transform the ordinary into something extraordinary. The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems is an anthology of his life works that spans to thirty years of his career as a poet and six successful volumes that he had the chance to publish during his lifetime. This book opens with his last poetic composition The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems, a canzone, which was published posthumously. He had penned this poem a year prior to his death. This book contains some of his famous poems like Postcard from Kashmir, A Lost Memory of Delhi, Snowmen, Cracked Portraits, Story of a Silence, Poets on Bathroom Walls, Now No Longer Little, Medusa, The Blessed Word: A prologue, Some Visions of the World Cashmere, New Delhi Airport, I have Loved, and many more remarkable poems. From his early works to his mature translations of Ghazals, the readers can evidently see his progression from his directly descriptive poetic works to the dynamic and stratified compositions of his later collections in this book. This is the underlying factor that adds to make The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems, the ultimate book for his fans.
Download or read book The Veiled Suite written by Shahid Ali Agha and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2009 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Veil Suite written by Izhar Patkin and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Mad Heart Be Brave written by Kazim Ali and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays, both personal and critical, on the work of beloved Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali
Download or read book The Country Without a Post Office written by Agha Shahid Ali and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Call Me Ishmael Tonight A Book of Ghazals written by Agha Shahid Ali and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-10-17 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book The Veiled Suite The Collected Poems written by Agha Shahid Ali and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Rooms Are Never Finished Poems written by Agha Shahid Ali and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-03-17 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book Veil and Burn written by Laurie Clements Lambeth and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerned with physical experience, pain, and disability, Veil and Burn illuminates an intense desire to feel through the Other, embrace it, become it, and in the transformation, to understand the suffering body. In poems about animals, artifacts, and monsters, Lambeth displays a fascination for all bodies while exploring their pain, common fate, alienation, and abilities. Hovering between poem and prose fragment, between the self and fellow creatures, Laurie Clements Lambeth celebrates physical sensation, imbuing it with lyric shape, however broken, however imprisoned the shape may be.
Download or read book A Map of Longings written by Manan Kapoor and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Trembling of the Veil written by W. B. Yeats and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I At the end of the ’eighties my father and mother, my brother and sisters and myself, all newly arrived from Dublin, were settled in Bedford Park in a red-brick house with several mantelpieces of wood, copied from marble mantelpieces designed by the brothers Adam, a balcony and a little garden shadowed by a great horse-chestnut tree. Years before we had lived there, when the crooked ostentatiously picturesque streets with great trees casting great shadows had been a new enthusiasm: the Pre-Raphaelite movement at last affecting life. But now exaggerated criticism had taken the place of enthusiasm, the tiled roofs, the first in modern London, were said to leak, which they did not, and the drains to be bad, though that was no longer true; and I imagine that houses were cheap. I remember feeling disappointed because the co-operative stores, with their little seventeenth century panes, had lost the romance they had when I had passed them still unfinished on my way to school; and because the public house, called The Tabard after Chaucer’s Inn, was so plainly a common public house; and because the great sign of a trumpeter designed by Rooke, the Pre-Raphaelite artist, had been freshened by some inferior hand. The big red-brick church had never pleased me, and I was accustomed, when I saw the wooden balustrade that ran along the slanting edge of the roof where nobody ever walked or could walk, to remember the opinion of some architect friend of my father’s, that it had been put there to keep the birds from falling off. Still, however, it had some village characters and helped us to feel not wholly lost in the metropolis. I no longer went to church as a regular habit, but go I sometimes did, for one Sunday morning I saw these words painted on a board in the porch: “The congregation are requested to kneel during prayers; the kneelers are afterwards to be hung upon pegs provided for the purpose.” In front of every seat hung a little cushion and these cushions were called “kneelers.” Presently the joke ran through the community, where there were many artists who considered religion at best an unimportant accessory to good architecture and who disliked that particular church.
Download or read book Said Not Said written by Fred Marchant and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this important and formally inventive new poetry collection, Fred Marchant brings us into realms of the intractable and the unacceptable, those places where words seem to fail us and yet are all we have. In the process he affirms lyric poetry's central role in the contemporary moral imagination."--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Veiled Suite The The Collected Poems written by Ali and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Femme Du Monde written by Patricia Spears Jones and published by Tia Chucha. This book was released on 2006 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are poems of positions and relationships, shifting angles on received wisdom or cultural cliché, fiercely signifying in an age of raging information and vicious exploitation. For Patricia Spears Jones, subjectivity is a challenge and a bugaboo. "Who wants to know your stuff unless Subject (Black and Female) is violated and/or perseveres against all odds?" asks Spears Jones. She tackles grand issues like racism and sexism, but with an intimate poet's eye to details, moments, miracles, pains, and the wildness of the moon and stillness of water. History and the visual serve as analogs for this collection, tying together a diverse group of poems written about the paintings and statuary in Paris; mansions in Virginia; the commes de garcons store in Soho; or a chocolate shop's window in Munich. This is a textured landscape of troubles and terrors and temptations galore. A world that would look familiar to Dante, whose observations about winners and losers haunts these poems. "We know more than we care to admit and live lives of such great challenge that where humor and awe finds us is where poetry begins," Spears Jones writes. "Luck is a harsh thing to hang one's life on. Better to be curious. Get up. Walk out the door and face what the world offers with humor, with courage, with joy."
Download or read book The World of Agha Shahid Ali written by Tapan Kumar Ghosh and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring essays by American, Indian, and British scholars, this collection offers critical appraisals and personal reflections on the life and work of the transnational poet Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001). Though sometimes identified as an "Indian writer in English," Shahid came to designate himself as a Kashmiri-American writer in exile in the United States, where he lived for the latter half of his life, publishing seven volumes of poetry and teaching at colleges and universities across the country. Locating Shahid in a diasporic space of exile, the volume traces the poet's transnationalist attempts to bridge East and West and his movement toward a true internationalism. In addition to offering close formal analyses of most of Shahid's poems and poetry collections, the contributors also situate him in relation to both Western and subcontinental poetic forms, particularly the ghazal. Many also offer personal anecdotes that convey the milieu in which the poet lived and wrote, as well as his personal preoccupations. The book concludes with the poet's 1997 interview with Suvir Kaul, which appears in print here for the first time.
Download or read book A Study Guide for Agha Shahid Ali s Snowmen written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
