Call Me Ishmael Tonight
A Book of Ghazals
14 January 2005
Description
"Ali's ghazals are contemporary and colloquial, deceptively simple, yet still grounded in tradition....Highly recommended."—Library Journal
The beloved Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali presents his own American ghazals. Calling on a line or phrase from fellow poets, Ali salutes those known and loved—W. S. Merwin, Mark Strand, James Tate, and more—while in other searingly honest verse he courageously faces his own mortality.
Reviews
"His ghazals offer a path toward a level of lyric expansiveness few poets would dare to aspire to." — Michael Palmer
Also By: Agha Shahid Ali 
Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems
E Book, 2015
"An incomparable work, an unmatched achievement."—Anthony Hecht
The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems
Hardback, 2009
Beginning with the impassioned, never-before-published title poem, here is the poet.
Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems
Paperback, 2003
"An incomparable work, an unmatched achievement."—Anthony Hecht
The Country without a Post Office: Poems
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
A Nostalgist's Map of America: Poems
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.
