Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals"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. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abraham Agha Shahid almond water alMustalim angels Anthology arRahim ashes Begum Akhtar Belief’s Beloved Witness blond assassin bones BoneSculpture burned CALL ME ISHMAEL calligraphy cardamom and almond cayenne CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Concubine of Snow couplet of Arabic couplet sets cried dark Death desert Doomsday Enemy exiles eyes fire GALWAY Ghazals in English God’s grief’s HalfInch Himalayas He’s heart Husband of Water I’ve infidel tonight ISHMAEL TONIGHT Judgment Day Kashmir Koran land light line same length Listen live forever Lorca died love’s MAHMOUD DARWISH Majnoon marble means The Beloved Memory of Begum Memory’s mirror Mughal Never Finished night Nostalgist’s Map one’s pain palanquin Persian poet Poetry qasidas rain Ravishing DisUnities Real Ghazals Rebel’s Silhouette Review rhyme Rooms Are Never Samarkand samovars Selected Poems Shahid means Shantih shines someone spell tonight springtime stars stones stunned water tears tell there’s things thyme weep who’s wine of snow won’t word