Veiled Suite (Hardcover)

Author: Agha Shahid Ali
Category: Poetry
ISBN: 9780393068047
Format : Hardcover
Publisher : W W Norton & Co Inc

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This collection gathers the life`s work of Agha Shahid Ali, who died in 2001, in exile from his homeland of Kashmir. Ali is most well-known in the West for popularizing the ghazal form of poetry, a distinct meter used mostly by Arabic and Hindi poets, featuring rhyming couplets and a repeated refrain, which is often used in Bollywood songs. But the ghazal is distinctive not only for its form, but also for its content, which exclusively examines the pain of inevitable, yet impossible love. This ineffable suffering for the sake of love marks much of Ali`s later verse, as the harsh reality of the political and military strife of the world often dictates the wishes of his imagined citizens. Just as Kashmir`s battered populace clings to tangible tokens of identity, for the brutal practicality of making their bodies recognizable in the event of a disaster, Ali`s poems confront the violence of public life with personal love, a bit of hope to cling to, not necessarily in order to survive, but to be remembered.

Veiled Suite (Hardcover) ( ISBN 9780393068047 )

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This collection gathers the life's work of Agha Shahid Ali, who died in 2001, in exile from his homeland of Kashmir. Ali is most well-known in the West for popularizing the "ghazal" form of poetry, a distinct meter used mostly by Arabic and Hindi poets, featuring rhyming couplets and a repeated refrain, which is often used in Bollywood songs. But the "ghazal" is distinctive not only for its form, but also for its content, which exclusively examines the pain of inevitable, yet impossible love. This ineffable suffering for the sake of love marks much of Ali's later verse, as the harsh reality of the political and military strife of the world often dictates the wishes of his imagined citizens. Just as Kashmir's battered populace clings to tangible tokens of identity, for the brutal practicality of making their bodies recognizable in the event of a disaster, Ali's poems confront the violence of public life with personal love, a bit of hope to cling to, not necessarily in order to survive, but to be remembered.

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