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Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001)

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Agha Shahid Ali was a finalist for the National Book Award for Rooms Are Never Finished. He taught at the University of Utah, the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He received Guggenheim and Ingram-Merrill fellowships, among others. He näytä lisää was born in New Delhi and grew up in Kashmir. He died in December 2001 näytä vähemmän
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The Best American Poetry 1997 (1997) — Avustaja — 167 kappaletta
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Avustaja — 162 kappaletta
The Best American Poetry 1998 (1998) — Avustaja — 161 kappaletta
The Best American Poetry 1992 (1992) — Avustaja — 102 kappaletta
Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001 (2014) — Avustaja — 42 kappaletta
Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing (2001) — Avustaja — 19 kappaletta
Yaraana: Gay Writing from South Asia (1999) — Avustaja — 18 kappaletta
Masters of British Literature, Volume B (2007) — Avustaja — 16 kappaletta

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No conocia este formato de poesia/cancion llamado Ghazal.
El formato en si me ha encantado, me gustaria leer mas.

Los contenidos de este libro sin embargo no me han llamado tanto. Las conexiones entre conceptos me han parecido en muchos casos imposibles. Quiza es mi limitada inteligencia o imaginacion, simplemente no he sido capaz de conseguir que me transmitieran algo en muchos casos.
 
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trusmis | Nov 28, 2020 |
While at the Art Institute in Chicago, Jessa & I saw Nilima Sheikh's exhibit, "Each Night Put Kashmir in Your Dreams." There was a lot of text interwoven in the art, and Jessa and I had some divergent opinions about the appropriateness of such intermingling. I came down in favor of the text. The exhibit itself was inspired by poetry, particularly the poem, "I see Kashmir from Ne Delhi at Midnight" by Ali. I was intrigued by the exhibition, so when I saw a collection of Ali's poems in the museum store I snatched it up.

These poems are a roller coaster (that mostly goes down). They will make you miss your home even if you've fled it. They will make you despair the idea of your home being destroyed by war. They will make you yearn temporarily for something so "romantic" as being a war exile and then immediately feel like an utter ass for ever entertaining such a thought.

What I knew about Kashmir before this was almost nothing, and now I want to know more, especially some of the religion and mythology alluded to. I'd no idea Kashmir could have ever been thought Persian (I thought Persia = Old Iran). Why did I never take world history? I should read more Lal Ded.

I love best the poem "Farewell":
"They make a desolation and call it peace."
"We can't ask them: Are you done with the world?"
"My memory keeps getting in the way of your history."

But they are all wonderful. They all tighten something in my chest and twist my mouth. Beautiful. Heartbreaking.
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