Synopses & Reviews
This shining collection by the beloved Kashmiri-American poet (finalist for the National Book Award in 2001) is his last witness. In many of the ghazals, Ali salutes poets known and loved-W. S. Merwin, Mark Strand, James Tate, and more-while in other searingly honest ghazals he courageously faces his own mortality.
Review
His ghazals offer a path toward a level of lyric expansiveness few poets would dare to aspire to. (Michael Palmer)
Synopsis
This Shining Collection by the beloved Kashmiri-American poet (finalist for the National Book Award in 2001) is his last witness. In many of the ghazals. Ali salutes poets known and loved -- W. S. Merwin, Mark Strand, James Tare, and more -- while in other searingly honest ghazals he courageously faces his own mortality.
About the Author
Agha Shahid Ali died in 2001. The Agha Shahid Ali Literary Trust is based in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Table of Contents
I have loved --Arabic --For you --By exiles --Of it all --In real time --Of fire --Things --Shines --My word --From the start --Angels --Of water --As ever --Land --Not all, only a few return --Even the rain --Of snow --Air --About me --In marble --Bones --In --Beyond English --Of light --Stars --For time --God --Forever --After you --In Arabic --Tonight --Existed.