Agha Shahid Ali knows how to play with words. His last book was Call Me Ishmael Tonight, a collection of English ghazals. His poems are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) and many other anthologies.
Agha Shahid Ali knows how to play with words.
Call Me Ishmael Tonight was published in 2003, two years after author, Agha Shahid Ali died of brain cancer
Call Me Ishmael Tonight was published in 2003, two years after author, Agha Shahid Ali died of brain cancer. The ghazal is an ancient Persian form of poetry, and Ali uses this traditional structure to his advantage in contemplating modern life. Within the strict schema of the verse, Ali finds space to stretch his impressive linguistic muscles.
Call me Ishmael tonight," commands Ali. And the reader is inclined to obey, for Ali is truly persuasive throughout, infusing the ancient Arabic-Persian ghazal with contemporary fervor to demonstrate.
Tonight" from Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals by Agha Shahid Al.
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His last book was Call Me Ishmael Tonight, a collection of English ghazals, and his poems are featured in. .
His last book was Call Me Ishmael Tonight, a collection of English ghazals, and his poems are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) and other anthologies. Poetry: Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals (2003), Rooms Are Never Finished (2001), The Country Without a Post Office (1997), The Beloved Witness: Selected Poems (1992), A Nostalgist's Map of America (1991), A Walk Through the Yellow Pages (1987), The Half-Inch Himalayas (1987), In Memory. of Begum Akhtar and Other Poems (1979), Bone Sculpture (1972).
Ali's ghazals are contemporary and colloquial, deceptively simple, yet still grounded in tradition. 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.
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Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) taught at the University of Utah, at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and at the University of t. Política de opiniones. Información adicional.