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008    081117s2009    nyu      b    001 0 eng   
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050 00 PR9499.3.A39|bV45 2009 
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100 1  Agha, Shahid Ali,|d1949-2001. 
245 14 The veiled suite :|bthe collected poems /|cAgha Shahid 
       Ali. 
246 30 Collected poems 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bW.W. Norton & Co,|c[2009] 
300    393 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-381) and 
       index. 
505 00 |tThe Veiled Suite --|tPostcard from Kashmir --|tA Lost 
       Memory of Delhi --|tA Dream of Glass Bangles --|tSnowmen -
       -|tCracked Portraits --|tStory of a Silence --|tPrayer Rug
       --|tThe Dacca Gauzes --|tThe Season of the Plains --|tA 
       Monsoon Note on Old Age --|tA Butcher --|tThe Fate of the 
       Astrologer Sitting on the Pavement Outside the Delhi 
       Railway Station --|tAfter Seeing Kozintsev's King Lear in 
       Delhi --|tChandni Chowk, Delhi --|tCremation --|tIn Memory
       of Begum Akhtar --|tHomage to Faiz Ahmed Faiz --|tA Wrong 
       Turn --|tVacating an Apartment --|tThe Previous Occupant -
       -|tLeaving Your City --|tPhiladelphia, 2:00 A.M. --|tThe 
       Jogger on Riverside Drive, 5:00 A.M. --|tFlight from 
       Houston in January --|tStationery --|tSurvivor --|tI Dream
       It Is Afternoon When I Return to Delhi --|tA Call --|tThe 
       Tiger at 4:00 A.M. --|tIn the Mountains --|tHouses --
       |tBell Telephone Hours --|g1.|tHas anyone heard from you 
       lately? --|g2.|tCall long distance: the next best thing to
       being there --|g3.|tIt s getting late. Do your friends 
       know where you are? --|g4.|tReach out and touch someone 
       far away. Use your phone for all it's worth --|g5.|tToday,
       talk is cheap. Call somebody --|tAdvertisement (Found 
       Poem) --|tLanguage Games --|tPoets on Bathroom Walls --
       |tChristmas, 1980s --|tAn Interview with Red Riding Hood, 
       Now No Longer Little --|tThe Wolf's Postscript to "Little 
       Red Riding Hood" --|tHansel's Game --|tEurydice --|tBeyond
       the Ash Rains --|tA Rehearsal of Loss --|tCrucifixion --
       |tLeaving Sonora --|tI Dream I Return to Tucson in the 
       Monsoons --|tA Nostalgist's Map of America --|tIn Search 
       of Evanescence --|g1.|tStudents of mist --|g2.|tIt was a 
       year of brilliant water --|g3.|tWhen on Route 80 in Ohio -
       -|g4.|tSomeone wants me to live --|g5.|tFrom the Faraway 
       Nearby --|g6.|tIn Pennsylvania seven years ago --|g7.|tWe 
       must always have a place --|g8.|tYou --|g9.|tThe way she 
       had -- in her rushes -- of resonance --|g10.|tShahid, you 
       never --|g11.|t"Phil was afraid of being forgotten" --
       |tThe Keeper of the Dead Hotel --|tFrom Another Desert --
       |g1.|tCries Majnoon --|g2.|tIn the grief of broken stone -
       -|g3.|tEach statue will be broken --|g4.|tThere again is 
       memory --|g5.|tCries Majnoon --|g6.|tHis blood shines --
       |g7.|tWho now weeps --|g8.|tMajnoon was again sighted --
       |g9.|tMajnoon --|g10.|tIn prison Majnoon weeps for Satan -
       -|g11.|tThe prisoners know they've been --|g12.|tAmbushed 
       in century after century by the police of God --|g13.|tThe
       dead are here. Listen to survivors --|tNo --|tResume --
       |tNotes on the Sea's Existence --|tMedusa --|tThe Youngest
       of the Graeae --|tDesert Landscape --|tI See Chile in My 
       Rearview Mirror --|tSnow on the Desert --|tThe Blessed 
       Word: A Prologue --|tFarewell --|tI See Kashmir from New 
       Delhi at Midnight --|tThe Last Saffron --|tI Dream I Am 
       the Only Passenger on Flight 423 to Srinagar --|t"Some 
       Vision of the World Cashmere" --|t"Lo, A Tint Cashmere!/Lo,
       A Rose!" --|tGhazal --|tDear Shahid --|tA Pastoral --
       |tReturn to Harmony 3 --|tThe Country Without a Post 
       Office --|tThe Floating Post Office --|tThe Correspondent 
       --|tA Fate's Brief Memoir --|tAt the Museum --|tA History 
       of Paisley --|tA Footnote to History --|tSon et Lumiere at
       Shalimar Garden --|tGhazal --|tFirst Day of Spring --
       |tGhazal --|tDeath Row --|tThe City of Daughters --
       |tMuharram in Srinagar, 1992 --|tHans Christian Ostro --
       |tA Villanelle --|tAfter the August Wedding in Lahore, 
       Pakistan --|tLenox Hill --|tFrom Amherst to Kashmir --|g1.
       |tKarbala: A History of the "House of Sorrow" --|g2.
       |tZainab's Lament in Damascus --|g3.|tSummers of 
       Translation --|g4.|tAbove the Cities --|g5.|tMemory --|g6.
       |tNew Delhi Airport --|g7.|tFilm Bbajan Found on a 78 RPM 
       --|g8.|tSrinagar Airport --|g9.|tGod --|g10.|tGhalib's 
       Ghazal --|g11.|tThe Fourth Day --|g12.|tBy the Waters of 
       the Sind --|tRooms Are Never Finished --|tGhazal --
       |tBarcelona Airport --|tA Secular Comedy --|g1.|tHeaven --
       |g2.|tEarth --|g3.|tHell --|tThe Nature of Temporal Order 
       --|tGhazal --|tOn Hearing a Lover Not Seen for Twenty 
       Years Has Attempted Suicide --|tSuicide Note --|tGhazal --
       |tThe Purse-Seiner Atlantis --|tEleven Stars Over 
       Andalusia --|g1.|tOn our last evening on this land --|g2.
       |tHow can I write above the clouds? --|g3.|tThere is a sky
       beyond the sky for me --|g4.|tI am one of the kings of the
       end --|g5.|tOne day I will sit on the pavement --|g6.
       |tTruth has two faces and the snow is black --|g7.|tWho am
       I after the night of the estranged? --|g8.|tO water, be a 
       string to my guitar --|g9.|tIn the exodus I love you more 
       --|g10.|tI want from love only the beginning --|g11.
       |tViolins --|tI Dream I Am at the Ghat of the Only World -
       -|tI Have Loved --|tFor You --|tOf It All --|tOf Fire --
       |tThings --|tShines --|tMy Word --|tFrom The Start --
       |tAngels --|tOf Water --|tAs Ever --|tLand --|tNot All, 
       Only a Few Return --|tWater --|tOf Snow --|tAir --|tAbout 
       Me --|tIn Marble --|tBones --|tIn --|tBeyond English --
       |tOf Light --|tStars --|tFor Time --|tGod --|tForever --
       |tAfter You --|tIn Arabic --|tTonight --|tExisted. 
520 0  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. 
650  0 American poetry. 
650  7 American poetry.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00807348 
650  7 Amerikansk poesi.|2sao 
655  7 Poetry.|2marcgt 
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