Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems

by Agha Shahid Ali

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393068048
• ISBN13: 9780393068047
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"