Agha Shahid Ali, a Kashmiri-American poet who was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in Poetry, died Dec. 8 at his brother’s home in Amherst, Mass., where he was staying. He was 52 and ...

This biography of Agha Shahid Ali reads his life and his poetry together to join the dots An excerpt from ‘A Map of Longings’, by Manan Kapoor. Manan Kapoor ...

Years later, here is a book, not the first on Agha Shahid Ali’s work, but seemingly a first on the man behind the poems. What came before This is a book that claims Shahid as a “modern-day ...

Agha Shahid Ali died in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2001. He succumbed to cancer of the brain, which had taken his mother from him just a few years earlier. He was a few months shy of his 53rd ...

The first time that Agha Shahid Ali, the great Kashmiri poet, spoke to me about his approaching death was in April of last year. The conversation began routinely.

Last week Agha Shahid Ali’s eighth book of poems, Rooms Are Never Finished (W.W. Norton), was named a finalist for the 2001 National Book Awards. A Muslim born in Kashmir, he was educated in … ...

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The distinguished Kashmir-born American poet Agha Shahid Ali, whose most recent book of poems Rooms Are Never Finished (WW Norton) was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Awards, passed away in ...

The transience of human life is much with me these days and I find myself recalling lost friends and lost opportunities with increasing nostalgia. I would have loved hearing Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ...