Agha Shahid Ali

Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) taught at the University of Utah, at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Agha Shahid Ali

Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) taught at the University of Utah, at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Books by Agha Shahid Ali

  • A Nostalgist's Map of America: Poems

    Agha Shahid Ali

    Paperback, 1993

    With his prologue poem "Eurydice," Agha Shahid Ali's Nostalgist introduces the motifs of journey and exile, myth and politics, history and loss, that animate this collection.
  • The Country without a Post Office: Poems

    Agha Shahid Ali

    Paperback, 1998

    "Translucent elegies 'for the city that is leaving forever' (Srinagar) from one of its sons, who also happens to be one of America's finest younger poets."—John Ashbery
  • Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems

    Agha Shahid Ali

    Paperback, 2003

    "An incomparable work, an unmatched achievement."—Anthony Hecht
  • Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals

    Agha Shahid Ali

    Paperback, 2005

    "Ali's ghazals are contemporary and colloquial, deceptively simple, yet still grounded in tradition....Highly recommended."—Library Journal
  • Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals

    Agha Shahid Ali

    E Book, 2015

    "Ali's ghazals are contemporary and colloquial, deceptively simple, yet still grounded in tradition....Highly recommended."—Library Journal
  • Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems

    Agha Shahid Ali

    E Book, 2015

    "An incomparable work, an unmatched achievement."—Anthony Hecht
  • The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems

    Agha Shahid Ali, Daniel Hall

    Hardback, 2009

    Beginning with the impassioned, never-before-published title poem, here is the poet.