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- Title
- Untitled personal notesFarewell
- Author
- Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton &Company, Inc.
- Description
- draft of "Farewell"; quote from Tacitus
- Type of item
- journal, notes
- Categories
- miscellaneous
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:334
- Title
- Untitled personal notesThe lady who cleans the universe
- Author
- Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton &Company, Inc.
- Description
- draft of poem entitled "The Lady Who Cleans the Universe"
- Type of item
- journal, notes
- Categories
- miscellaneous
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:300
- Title
- I See Chile in my rearview mirror [video clip]
- Author
- Ali, Agha Shahid, 1949-2001
- Publisher
- University of Utah
- Date
- 1997-03-06, 2014-08-15
- Type of item
- videorecording, poetry reading
- Categories
- readings, political conflicts
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:162
- Title
- Untitled personal notes
- Author
- Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
- Description
- crossed out notes
- Type of item
- journal, notes
- Categories
- miscellaneous
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:394
- Title
- Untitled personal notes
- Author
- Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
- Description
- nearly blank page that reads at the top: absolute zero? lower yet
- Type of item
- journal, notes
- Categories
- miscellaneous
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:390
- Title
- Untitled personal notes
- Author
- Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
- Description
- draft of "Farewell"; notes about existence and a recollection of how his father was brought a letter from the post office during troubles in Kashmir
- Type of item
- journal, notes
- Categories
- miscellaneous
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:336
- Title
- Dacca gauzes [poem] (1983 draft, "Reading Dorian Gray in Kashmir")
- Author
- Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
- Date
- 1983, 2013-12-01
- Type of item
- poetry, manuscript – poem
- Categories
- ancestors, textiles, colonialism, family
- Full Text
- Reading Dorian Gray in Kashmir . . . for a whole year, he sought to accumulate the most exquisite specimens . . . of textile and embroidered work . . . the Dacca gauzes, that from their transparency, are known in the East . . . --The Picture 2; Dorian Gray Dorian Gray wore those gauzes from Dacca known as woven air, running water, evening dew, that transparent cotton a dead art now, dead for over a hundred years. No one can imagine, my grandmother says, what it was to wear, just to touch, tha...
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:27
- Title
- Lennox Hill [video clip]
- Author
- Ali, Agha Shahid, 1949-2001
- Publisher
- Baruch College
- Date
- 2001-03-30, 2014-08-20
- Type of item
- videorecording, poetry reading
- Categories
- abandonment, family, readings, troubles in Kashmir
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:168
- Title
- MFA thesis (selected pages) [thesis]
- Author
- Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
- Date
- 1981-03
- Type of item
- prose, poetry, manuscript – thesis
- Categories
- ancestors, exile, religion
- Full Text
- iii ABSTRACT A snow child from Kashmir, the vale surrounded by the Himalayas, the persona thinks of the snowmen, his ancestors, whose burden is heavy on his shoulders. He wants to enter Spring. But will springtime mean not only their death, their melting, but also his own? . In the streets of Delhi, washed by the monsoons, he explores myth, history, and language. Kali turns to snow in his dreams, and he wants to touch Durga. The gods become mortal, stabbed at their altars. The persona recogni...
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:34
- Title
- Houses [poem]
- Author
- Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
- Date
- 1985-05-08
- Type of item
- poetry, manuscript – poem, Lyric poetry
- Categories
- exile, family, troubles in Kashmir
- Full Text
- HOUSES for Jon Anderson The man who buries his house in the sand and digs it up again, each evening, learns to put it together quickly and just as quickly to take it apart. My parents sleep like children in the dark. I am too far to hear them breathe but I remember their house is safe and I can sleep, the night's hair black and thick in my hands. My parents sleep in the dark. When the moon rises, the night's hair turns white in my arms. I am thirteen thousand miles from home. I comb...
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:22
- Title
- Untitled personal notes
- Author
- Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
- Description
- account of combat and interactions with the enemy in the mountains, in Delhi
- Type of item
- journal, notes
- Categories
- miscellaneous
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:346
- Title
- Untitled personal notes
- Author
- Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
- Description
- three short notes to self, the copied ending of A Tale of Two Cities, and another entry under the title CRACKDOWN where soldiers enter homes filled with women, proceed to destroy and steal things, all separated by xxx
- Type of item
- journal, notes
- Categories
- miscellaneous
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:314
- Title
- Untitled personal notes
- Author
- Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
- Description
- draft of sestina; quote from Ibn Zaydun;
- Type of item
- journal, notes
- Categories
- miscellaneous
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:388
- Title
- Untitled personal notes
- Author
- Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
- Description
- notes on tragedies in Kashmir; dream of Shahid's mother in which Shahid brings her a grandchild; miscellaneous notes
- Type of item
- journal, notes
- Categories
- miscellaneous
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:342
- Title
- Comments on the ghazal [video clip]
- Author
- Ali, Agha Shahid, 1949-2001
- Publisher
- Ball State University
- Date
- 1997-02-20, 2014-08-15
- Type of item
- videorecording, poetry reading
- Categories
- poetics, readings, translation
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:156
- Title
- Snowmen [video clip]
- Author
- Ali, Agha Shahid, 1949-2001
- Publisher
- University of Utah
- Date
- 1997-03-06, 2014-08-15
- Type of item
- videorecording, poetry reading
- Categories
- ancestors, family, readings, identity
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:163
- Title
- A dream of glass bangles [video clip]
- Author
- Ali, Agha Shahid, 1949-2001
- Publisher
- Haverford College
- Date
- 1988-03-19, 2014-08-15
- Type of item
- videorecording, poetry reading
- Categories
- family, readings, dreams
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:173
- Title
- Dacca gauzes [poem] (published 1987)
- Author
- Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
- Date
- 1987, 2013-12-01
- Type of item
- poetry, poem
- Categories
- ancestors, textiles, colonialism, family
- Full Text
- The Dacca Gauzes . . . for a whole year he sought to accumulate the most exquisite . Dacca gauzes. ' — Oscar Wilde/ The Picture of Dorian Gray Those transparent Dacca gauzes known as woven air, running water, evening dew: a dead art now, dead over a hundred years. "No one now knows," my grandmother says, “what it was to wear or touch that cloth." She wore it once, an heirloom sari from her mother's dowry, proved genuine when it was pulled, all six yards, through a rin...
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:28
- Title
- Ghazal
- Author
- Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
- Description
- early draft of "tonight"; list of end rhymes; miscellaneous notes
- Type of item
- journal
- Categories
- miscellaneous
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:184
- Title
- Untitled personal notes
- Author
- Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
- Description
- notes for a class that Shahid was preparing to teach, informal lesson plan and list of reminders to self
- Type of item
- journal, notes
- Categories
- miscellaneous
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:398
- Title
- Rooms are never finished [video clip]
- Author
- Ali, Agha Shahid, 1949-2001
- Publisher
- Baruch College
- Date
- 2001-03-30, 2014-08-20
- Type of item
- videorecording, poetry reading
- Categories
- textiles, readings, identity
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:167
- Title
- Untitled personal notesTransplants
- Author
- Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton &Company, Inc.
- Description
- grandmother's
- Type of item
- journal, notes
- Categories
- miscellaneous
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:310
- Title
- Untitled personal notes
- Author
- Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
- Description
- miscell poem fragments on Kashmir and childhood
- Type of item
- journal, notes
- Categories
- miscellaneous
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:386
- Title
- Dacca gauzes [poem] (undated draft, "Reading Dorian Gray in Kashmir")
- Author
- Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
- Type of item
- poetry, manuscript – poem, Lyric poetry
- Categories
- ancestors, textiles, colonialism, family
- Full Text
- The Decca Gauzes . . . for a whole year he sought to accumulate the most exquisite 0 0 0 m.CCa. 8311265, 0 o 0 —-The Picture gg Dorian Gray Not only Dorian Gray but many aristocrats of Europe wore those transparent Dacca gauzes known as woven air, running water, evening dew. A dead art now, dead over a hundred years. "No one can imagine," my grandmother says, "what it was to wear or touch that cloth." She wore it once, an heirloom sari from her mother's dowry, proved ...
- PID
- HamiltonShahid:35