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Agha Shahid Ali Qizilbash (4 February 1949 – 8 December 2001) was an Indian-American poet who immigrated to the United States and became affiliated with the literary movement known as New Formalism in American poetry.
A Kashmiri American Muslim, Agha Shahid Ali is best known as a poet in the United States and identified himself as an American poet writing in English. Ali wrote nine poetry collections and a book of literary criticism (T.S. Eliot as Editor, 1986), as well as translated a collection of Faiz Ahmed…
Agha Shahid Ali was born in New Delhi on February 4, 1949. He grew up Muslim in Kashmir, and was later educated at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, and University of Delhi. He earned a PhD in English from Pennsylvania State University in 1984, and an MFA from the University of Arizona in 1985.
Sep 9, 2022 · Agha Shahid Ali was born in Delhi in 1949 into a well-educated, liberal Shia Muslim family where Urdu, Kashmiri and English were spoken and poetry in these languages was frequently recited. He spent his early childhood in Srinagar and attended an Irish Catholic school there.
A Kashmiri American Muslim, Agha Shahid Ali is best known as a poet in the United States and identified himself as an American poet writing in English. Ali wrote nine poetry collections and a book of literary criticism (T.S. Eliot as Editor, 1986), as well...
Agha Shahid Ali (Kashmiri: ???? ????? ???, ??? ????? ???;) was a Kashmiri American poet. He grew up in Kashmir, the son of a distinguished and highly educated family in Srinagar.
Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001) grew up in Kashmir, the violently disputed territory (once an independent state) between India and Pakistan; he and his family lived in the part of Kashmir controlled, since 1947, by India.
This paper reads Agha Shahid Ali’s poetics principally through his canzone, “After the August Wedding in Lahore, Pakistan,” epitomizing Ali’s commitment to form as not only a vehicle of poetic expression, but as a figure for dissecting the lyric mode within the continued departures of refrain.
Agha Shahid Ali is one of the writers that Ghosh cites as exemplifying this use of the motif of a lost utopia, which trope is easily apparent in close readings of many of the individual poems in The Country Without a Post Office.
Agha Shahid Ali The following conversation with Agha Shahid AH took place at his home in Northampton, Massachusetts in the late 1990s. His third collection of poems, The Country Without A Post Office, had brought him critical acclaim and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was preparing an anthology of ghazals for publication and writing the poems ...
