Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001)
Autor(a) de The Country without a Post Office
About the Author
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 mostrar mais was born in New Delhi and grew up in Kashmir. He died in December 2001 mostrar menos
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Obras por Agha Shahid Ali
Poems (in Paris Review 158 - PLIMPTON) 1 exemplar
Houses {poem} 1 exemplar
Half-Inch Himilayas 1 exemplar
Lenox Hill 1 exemplar
Associated Works
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Contribuidor — 172 exemplares
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contribuidor — 151 exemplares
Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry (1995) — Contribuidor — 27 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1949-02-04
- Data de falecimento
- 2001-12-08
- Localização do túmulo
- Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- India
- Local de nascimento
- New Delhi, India
- Local de falecimento
- Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
- Locais de residência
- New Delhi, India
USA - Educação
- University of Kashmir
Hindu College, University of Delhi
Pennsylvania State University
University of Arizona - Ocupações
- poet
Membros
Críticas
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.
… (mais)
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.
… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 15
- Also by
- 11
- Membros
- 500
- Popularidade
- #49,493
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 4
- ISBN
- 26
- Marcado como favorito
- 4
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.