Author Description

The veiled suite collects the life’s work of kashmiri-american poet agha shahid ali drawing from a remarkable range of sources that span continents and cultures, ali displays an “imagination supple and cultivated enough to draw on different cultures simultaneously” (new york times book review) this definitive volume, ali’s shining legacy, is a testament to the revolutionary voice that introduced the form of the ghazal to the american poetic lexicon—and brought the physical and emotional landscape of kashmir to an audience of devoted readers beginning with the impassioned, never-before-published title poem, written after a dream related to ali’s illness, the veiled suite moves through themes of mourning and loss, culminating in the ghazals of call me ishmael tonight in one of his early poems, “postcard from kashmir”, ali reflects on the four-by-six-inch, “overexposed” nature of his homeland’s postcard existence a poignant nostalgia for kashmir pervades his work, bu