Agha Shahid Ali, Author . Norton $29.95 (393p) ISBN 978-0-393-06804-7
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An archetypal vocabulary entered into the late Agha Shahid Ali’s poems from the Arabic masters he loved, from the passionate popular songs of India and even from Bollywood movies: beloved, mirror, flame, rose.
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Agha Shahid Ali, Author, Shahid Ali Agha, Author . Norton $22 (106p) ISBN 978-0-393-04149-1
The direct inspiration for Ali's new volume was his mother's death and the subsequent journey back to his homeland of Kashmir with her body. In his prose introduction, mother and motherland are strangely, strongly linked, and Ali, who has...
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Agha Shahid Ali, Author, Shahid Ali Agha, Author . Norton $21.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-393-05195-7
Kashmiri-American poet Ali, who died of brain cancer in 2001, made a project of bringing the ghazal further into English, inviting American poets to contribute to the anthology Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English. These 34 of Ali's own
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