The Veiled Suite: The Collected PoemsBeginning 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" |
Contents
Foreword | 15 |
The Veiled Suite | 23 |
From | 85 |
Language Games | 92 |
Dream I Return to Tucson in the Monsoons | 117 |
The Keeper of the Dead Hotel | 136 |
A Prologue | 171 |
See Kashmir from New Delhi at Midnight | 178 |
Dream I Am the Only Passenger | 184 |
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Agha Shahid Ali Andalusia angels Arabic arms ashes bangles Begum Akhtar Belovéd blood blue bones break breath broken burning candles cried dark dawn dead death Delhi desert dim sums Doomsday dream earth EMILY DICKINSON empty Evanescence exiles eyes Faiz Faiz Ahmed Faiz farewell father fire flames forever Ghalib ghazal glass God's grief Habba Khatun hands hear heart Hussain Ishmael James Merrill Karbala Kashmir leave light lips live look lost lover Mahmoud Darwish majnoon marble memory mirror monsoon moon mother mountains Muharram night once pain paisleys Paradise poem prayer rain roses saffron shadow Shahid Shi'a Islam shines sing sleep snow someone song Srinagar stars stone streets Sufi summer tears tell There's tonight trees turn Urdu vanished veil violins Violins weep voice waiting waves window wine wings women word Zainab