Characteristic of shahid ali
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Ali expressed his love and concern for his people in In Memory of Begum Akhtar and The Country Without a Post Office, which was written with the Kashmir conflict as backdrop.[7] He was a translator of the Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz (The Rebel's Silhouette; Selected Poems),[8] and the editor for the Middle East and Central Asia segment of Jeffery Paine's Poetry of Our World.[9]
He compiled the volume Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English. His last book was Call Me Ishmael Tonight, a collection of English ghazals, and his poems are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) and other anthologies. Ghat of the only world written by Amitav Ghosh is a tribute of friend to Agha Shahid Ali. Ali was the close friend of Amitav Ghosh.
Ali taught at the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at University of Massachusetts Amherst, at the MFA Writing Seminars at Bennington College as well as at creative writing programs at University of Utah, Baruch College, Warren Wilson College, Hamilton College and New York University. He died of brain cancer in December 2001 and was buried in Northampton, in the vicinity of Amherst, a town sacred to his beloved poet Emily Dickinson.
Poetry Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals (2003) Rooms Are Never Finished (2001) The Country Without a Post Office (1997) The Beloved Witness: Selected Poems (1992) A Nostalgist's Map of America (1991) A Walk Through the Yellow Pages (1987) The Half-Inch Himalayas (1987) In Memory of Begum Akhtar and Other Poems (1979) Bone Sculpture (1972).
Translations The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1992)
Other Editor, Ravishing Disunities: Real Ghazals in English (2000) T. S. Eliot as Editor (1986)