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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