The Veiled Suite
The Collected Poems
Will be published approx. on 29. January 2009
Book
Hardback
396 pages
978-0-393-06804-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
847 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-06804-7 (9780393068047)
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02/2009
W. W. Norton & Company
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