The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems
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The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems

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The Veiled Suite: The Collected PoemsAgha Shahid Ali died in 2001, mourned by myriad lovers of poetry and devoted students. This volume, his shining legacy, moves from playful early poems to themes of mourning and loss, culminating in the ghazals of Call Me Ishmael Tonight. The title poem appears in print for the first time. from "The Veiled Suite" I wait for him to look straight into my eyesThis is our only chance for magnificence. If he, carefully, upon this hour of ice, will let us

Agha Shahid Ali died in 2001, mourned by myriad lovers of poetry and devoted students. This volume, his shining legacy, moves from playful early poems to themes of mourning and loss, culminating in the ghazals of Call Me Ishmael Tonight. The title poem appears in print for the first time.

from "The Veiled Suite"

I wait for him to look straight into my eyesThis is our only chance for magnificence.If he, carefully, upon this hour of ice, will let us almost completely crystallize, tell me, who but I could chill his dreaming night.Where he turns, what will not appear but my eyes?Wherever he looks, the sky is only eyes.Whatever news he has, it is of the sea.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 02/01/2009
ISBN: 9780393068047
Pages: 393
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.30d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/16/2009 pg. 111
Vanity Fair 03/01/2009 pg. 170
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