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Author: Kazim Ali
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2017-04-17
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 0472053507
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →New essays, both personal and critical, on the work of beloved Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali
Author: Agha Shahid Ali
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9788175300378
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Here Is A Haunted And Haunting Volume That Establishes Agha Shahid Ali As A Seminal Voice Writing In English. Amidst Rain And Fire And Ruin, In A Land Of `Doomed Addresses`, The Poet Evokes The Tragedy Of His Birth Place, Kashmir.
Author: Kazim Ali
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 047205127X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An American poet takes on Eastern philosophy, Western culture, and his Muslim heritage
Author: Mohammed Kazim Ali
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2017-04-17
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0472122827
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Born and raised in Kashmir, Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001) came to the United States in the mid-1970s to pursue graduate study in literature; by the mid-1980s, he had begun to establish himself as one of the most important American poets of the late 20th century. Mad Heart Be Brave: On the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali is the first comprehensive examination of all stages of his career, from his earliest work published in India but never reissued in the U.S., through his seven poetry volumes from American publishers, ultimately collected as The Veiled Suite. The essays, written by a range of poets and scholars, many of whom knew and studied with Ali, consider his early free verse poetry; his transition into writing more formalist poetry; his correspondence with poets Anthony Hecht and James Merrill; his literary engagement with the political realities of contemporary Kashmir; his teaching and mentorship of young poets; and Ali’s championing of the ghazal, a traditional Eastern poetic form, in English. Some essays have a predominantly scholarly focus, while others are more personal in their tone and content. All exhibit a deep appreciation for Ali’s life and work. Contributors to this volume include Sejal Shah, Rita Banerjee, Amanda Golden, Ravi Shankar, Abin Chakraborty, Amy Newman, Christopher Merrill, Jason Schneiderman, Stephen Burt, Raza Ali Hassan, Syed Humayoun, Feroz Rather, Dur e Aziz Amna, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Mahwash Shoaib, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Grace Schulman, and Ada Limón. Mad Heart Be Brave closes with a long biographical sketch and elegy by Agha Shahid Ali’s friend Amitav Ghosh and a comprehensive bibliography assembled by scholar Patricia O’Neill with Reid Larson.
Author: Mona Bhan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-09-22
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 1000624390
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies presents emerging critical knowledge frameworks and perspectives that foreground situated histories and resistance practices to challenge colonial and postcolonial forms of governance and state building. It politicizes discourses of nationalism, patriotism, democracy, and liberalism, and it questions how these dominant globalist imaginaries and discourses serve institutionalized power, create hegemony, and normalize domination. In doing so, the handbook situates Critical Kashmir Studies scholarship within global scholarly conversations on nationalism, sovereignty, indigenous movements, human rights, and international law. The handbook is organized into the following five parts: Territories, Homelands, Borders Militarism, Humanism, Occupation Memories, Futures, Imaginations Religion, History, Politics Armed Conflict, Global War, Transnational Solidarities A comprehensive reference work documenting and consolidating the growing Critical Kashmir Studies scholarship, this handbook will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, political science, cultural studies, legal and sociolegal studies, sociology, history, critical Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, and feminist studies.
Author: Viren Tak
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: 2017-08-17
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 1947586564
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A book that will shelter you in all seasons … After prolonged chills, when in spring the earth romances like Cupid in disguise and hope blossoms like laughter, Hold me, Before the summer tans fade away and the flip-flops lay unworn in the rays of that little sun in the beach, Adore me, When you rather than getting wet in them, feel the raindrops and the memoirs of a lover showers rainbow upon you, Uncover me, When the wind whispers into the souls of golden-red leaves to fall, not to be dead but to dance with its flow, Read me, And finally, when the snow covers the entire universe in silence, sit beside the candle that is lit on your study, And absorb me …
Author: Reema Ahmad
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Published: 2022-09-26
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 935492736X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Through her own awkward journey as a confused single parent with mental health issues, Reema Ahmad explores what it means to unravel newer ways of bringing up children-ways that nurture their sense of innocence and curiosity whilst giving them the freedom to choose their own truths. Reema invites you to hop along as she and Imaad, her son, learn to laugh and understand less explored and serious questions regarding abuse, adult relationships, divorce and death that adults often forget to wonder at, and seldom question. More than anything else, Unparenting is a vibrant, whacky testimony to a parent-child relationship where the child leads and the parent follows. Written in the form of deeply personal, engaging and often humorous essays that span the life of the mother and child from when he was seven-year-old till he turns fourteen, the book is a powerful reminder of what it feels like to be lost and misunderstood as a child and how important it is to challenge parents' knowledge about everything.
Author: Bart Eeckhout
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-07-08
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1108833292
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers a wide-ranging display of innovative critical perspectives on the poetry of the American modernist Wallace Stevens.
Author: Martha N Smith
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2018-09-17
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 0472037293
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Alicia Ostriker’s artistic and intellectual productions as a poet, critic, and essayist over the past 50 years are protean and have been profoundly influential to generations of readers, writers, and critics. In all her writings, both the feminist and the human engage fiercely with the material and metaphysical world. Ostriker is a poet concerned with questions of social justice, equality, religion, and how to live in a world marked by both beauty and tragedy. Everywoman Her Own Theology: On the Poetry of Alicia Suskin Ostriker engages Ostriker’s poetry from throughout her career, including her first volume Songs, her award-winning collection The Imaginary Lover, and her more recent work in the collections No Heaven, the volcano sequence, The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog, and Waiting for the Light. Like her literary criticism and essays, Ostriker’s poetry explores themes of feminism, Jewish life, family, and social justice. With insightful essays—some newly written for this collection—poets and literary critics including Toi Derricotte, Daisy Fried, Cynthia Hogue, Tony Hoagland, and Eleanor Wilner illuminate and open new pathways for critical engagement with Alicia Ostriker’s lifetime of poetic work.
Author: Kazim Daniel
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2023-09-05
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0819500720
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kazim Ali is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work explores themes of identity, migration, and the intersections of cultural and spiritual traditions. His poetry is known for its lyrical and expressive language, as well as its exploration of themes such as love, loss, and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing world. "Sukun" means serenity or calm, and a sukun is also a form of punctuation in Arabic orthography that denotes a pause over a consonant. This Sukun draws a generous selection from Kazim's six previous full-length collections, and includes 35 new poems. It allows us to trace Ali's passions and concerns, and take the measure of his art: the close attention to the spiritual and the visceral, and the deep language play that is both musical and plain spoken. [sample poem] The Fifth Planet Come, early summer in the mountains, and come, strawberry moon, and carry me softly in the silver canoe on wires to the summit, where in that way of late night useless talk, the bright dark asks me, "What is the thing you are most afraid of?" and I already know which lie I will tell. There were six of us huddled there in the cold, leaning on the rocks lingering in the dark where I do not like to linger, looking up at the sharp round pinnacle of light discussing what shapes we saw—rabbit, man, goddess—but that brightness for me was haunted by no thing, no shadow at all in the lumens. What am I, what am I, I kept throwing out to the hustling silence. No light comes from the moon, he's just got good positioning and I suppose that's the answer, that's what I'm most afraid of, that I'm a mirror, that I have no light of my own, that I hang in empty space in faithful orbit around a god or father neither of Whom will ever see me whole. I keep squinting to try to see Jupiter which the newspaper said would be found near the moon but it's nowhere, they must have lied. Or like god, there is too much reflection, headsplitting and profane, scraping up every shadow, too much light for anyone to see.
