Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals by Agha Shahid Ali

Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals

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Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals by Agha Shahid Ali

W. W. Norton & Company

Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals

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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.
Book Details
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN:
9780393326123
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
87
Authors:
Agha Shahid Ali
Published Date:
2004-10-01
Language:
English
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About Agha Shahid Ali

Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) was born in New Delhi and grew up Muslim in Kashmir, taking degrees at the University of Kashmir and the University of Delhi before immigrating to the United States in 1976. He earned a PhD in English from Pennsylvania State University in 1984 and an MFA from the University of Arizona in 1985. His collections include The Half-Inch Himalayas (1987), A Nostalgist's Map of America, The Country Without a Post Office (Ravi Dayal, 1997; W. W. Norton, 1998), and Rooms Are Never Finished (Norton, 2002), a National Book Award finalist. He translated Faiz Ahmed Faiz and edited Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English.

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