The Nation: ‘The Ghat of the Only World’: Agha Shahid Ali in Brooklyn
The first time that Agha Shahid Ali, the great Kashmiri poet, spoke to me about his approaching death was in April of last year. The conversation began routinely. I had telephoned to remind him that ...
Film still from Suneil Sanzgiri, "My Memory Is Again in the Way of Your History (After Agha Shahid Ali)" (2023), 16 mm film (color, silent): 1 min., looped (courtesy the artist) “What mutual lines of ...
Agha Shahid Ali was born in New Delhi on . He grew up Muslim in Kashmir, and was later educated at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, and the University of Delhi. He earned a PhD in ...
Last week Agha Shahid Ali’s eighth book of poems, Rooms Are Never Finished (W.W. Norton), was named a finalist for the 2001 National Book Awards. A Muslim born in Kashmir, he was educated in India and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Agha Shahid Ali, a Kashmiri-American poet who passed away in 2001, wrote about a lot of things. Some of those things were specific ...
On December 8, the poet Agha Shahid Ali died, too young, of a brain tumor. Shahid was a Kashmiri, a Muslim and a cosmopolitan who wrote splendid poetry in English and lived in America. He was admired ...
Agha Shahid Ali, 52, a poet who was a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry this year, died Dec. 8 in Amherst, Mass., of complications from a brain tumor. Born in New Delhi, Ali grew up a ...