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The Last Speaker: Selected Poems of Agha Shahid Ali by Agha Shahid Ali
About the Author
Agha Shahid Ali, a Kashmiri-American, wrote nine poetry collections, Bone-Sculpture (1972), Begum Akhtar (1979), The Half-Inch Himalayas (1987), A Walk Through the Yellow Pages (1987), A Nostalgist’s Map of America (1991), The Beloved Witness: Selected Poems (1992), The Country Without a Post Office (1997), Rooms Are Never Finished (2002), and Shahid’s own book of ghazals, Call Me Ishmael Tonight (2003, published posthumously). His book of translations of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s selected poems, The Rebel’s Silhouette was published in 1991, and a second edition in 1995. He received fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,
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