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Agha Shahid Ali’s poems are charmed whispers that can console and devastate
“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
An account of Shahid’s last months and life work by his friend, the writer Amitav Ghosh.
In this stunningly inventive collection―a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in poetry―Ali excavates the devastation wrought upon his childhood home, Kashmir, and reveals a more personal devastation: his mother's death and the journey with her body back to Kashmir.
An excerpt from a conversation with Eric Gamalinda that took place in Ali's apartment in Brooklyn eight months before his death.
The Veiled Suite collects the life’s work of the Kashmiri-American poet, drawing from a remarkable range of sources that span continents and cultures.