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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Gemini written by Stephanie True Peters and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Ravishing DisUnities written by Agha Shahid Ali and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Nostalgist s Map of America written by Agha Shahid Ali and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1992-11 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems dealing with the themes of journey, exile, myth, politics, history, and loss
Download or read book The Half Inch Himalayas written by Agha Shahid Ali and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stellar collection of early work from a renowned poet. The Half-Inch Himalayas is a stellar collection of early work by the poet Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001). His most recent volumes of poetry are Rooms Are Never Finished and The Country Without a Post Office. He is also the editor of Ravishing Disunities: Real Ghazals in English.
Download or read book Fire Pond written by Jessica Garratt and published by Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetr. This book was released on 2009 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2008 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry recipient selected by judge Medbh McGuckian, poet, editor, and teacher from Belfast.
Download or read book A Map of Longings written by Manan Kapoor and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first definitive biography of Agha Shahid Ali offers a rich portrait of the poet and the world he inhabited. "A scintillating portrait of one of the finest poets of the late 20th century"-Ranjit Hoskote "Manan Kapoor's immersive study returns the poet to his roots, which are inescapably Indian-there's no other word for the syncretic mastery of the Hindi, Urdu and English traditions that shaped his work."-Jeet Thayil Shahid is widely regarded as one of the finest poets from the Indian subcontinent, and his works are read across the world, touching millions of lives. A pioneer of ghazal writing in English, he wrote extensively about loss, nostalgia and home. A witness to the conflict that ravaged his homeland Kashmir, a loss he lamented in his collection The Country without a Post Office, Shahid has today become a symbol of hope in a violent world. In this biography, Manan Kapoor explores the concerns that shaped Shahid's life and works, following in the footsteps of the 'Beloved Witness' from Kashmir to New Delhi and finally to the United States. He charts Shahid's friendships with figures like Begum Akhtar and James Merrill, and looks at the lives the poet touched with his compassion and love. He also traces the complex evolution of Shahid's evocative verses, which mapped various cultures and geographies, and mourned injustice and loss, both personal and political. Drawing on various unpublished materials and in-depth interviews with Shahid's family, friends, students and acquaintances, Kapoor narrates the riveting story of a major literary voice and presents Shahid's poetic vision, revealing not just what he wrote but also how he taught the world to live.
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 Forms of a World written by Walt Hunter and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when we think of poetry as a global literary form, while also thinking the global in poetic terms? Forms of a World shows how the innovations of contemporary poetics have been forged through the transformations of globalization across five decades. Sensing the changes wrought by neoliberalism before they are made fully present, poets from around the world have creatively intervened in global processes by remaking poetry’s formal repertoire. In experimental reinventions of the ballad, the prospect poem, and the ode, Hunter excavates a new, globalized interpretation of the ethical and political relevance of forms. Forms of a World contends that poetry’s role is not only to make visible thematically the violence of global dispossessions, but to renew performatively the missing conditions for intervening within these processes. Poetic acts—the rhetoric of possessing, belonging, exhorting, and prospecting—address contemporary conditions that render social life ever more precarious. Examining an eclectic group of Anglophone poets, from Seamus Heaney and Claudia Rankine to Natasha Trethewey and Kofi Awoonor, Hunter elaborates the range of ways that contemporary poets exhort us to imagine forms of social life and enable political intervention unique to but beyond the horizon of the contemporary global situation.
Download or read book Night Radio written by Kim Young and published by Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetr. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2011 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry this volume is set in L.A. and excavates the kidnapping and sexual assault of a young girl and the resulting trauma
