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Agha Shahid Ali

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born

February 04, 1949 in New Delhi, India

died

December 08, 2001

genre

Poetry

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Agha Shahid Ali (आगा शाहीद अली) was an American poet of Kashmiri ancestry and upbringing.

His poetry collections include A Walk Through the Yellow Pages, The Half-Inch Himalayas, A Nostalgist's Map of America, The Country Without a Post Office, Rooms Are Never Finished (finalist for the National Book Award, 2001). His last book was Call Me Ishmael Tonight, a collection of English ghazals. His poems are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) and many other anthologies.

Ali was also a translator of Faiz Ahmed Faiz (The Rebel's Silhouette; Selected Poems) and editor (Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English). He was widely credited for helping to popularize the ghazal form in America.

Ali taught at the MFA Program for P...more

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Books by Agha Shahid Ali

Average rating: 4.23 · 380 ratings · 33 reviews · 10 distinct works

	The Country Without a Post Office 4.21 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems 4.21 avg rating — 68 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals 4.11 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Half-Inch Himalayas Half-Inch Himalayas Half-Inch Himalayas Half-Inch Himalayas Half-Inch Himala 4.09 avg rating — 46 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems by Agha Shahid Ali, Daniel Hall (Introduction) 4.69 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	A Nostalgist's Map of America: Poems 4.53 avg rating — 36 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English by Agha Shahid Ali (Editor), Sarah Suleri Goodyear 3.80 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Walk Through The Yellow Pages by Agha Shahid Ali, Shahid Ali Agha 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings	My rating:
	In Memory of Begum Akhtar 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1979	My rating:
	Final Collections 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating: