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Title: Bell telephone hours [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: readings, telephones
PID: HamiltonShahid:170

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Description: notes and poem fragments where Death, Fate, and Time are personified
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:348

Title: Medusa [video clip]
Author: Ali, Agha Shahid, 1949-2001
Date: 1983, 2014-08-15
Type of item: videorecording, poetry reading
Categories: abandonment, readings, religion, myths
PID: HamiltonShahid:152

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Date: 1994
Description: draft of story about a dying woman
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:378

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Description: reworking fiction class material as horror story and then as a "Subline American novel"
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:324

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Description: remembers
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:312

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Description: notes on mass graves in Sri Lanka and "roses" in Sarajevo to commemorate the war; draft poem about rescue of a beloved woman
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:350

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Date: 1994
Description: adoptive mother of Shahid's father
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:380

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Description: four sections denoted by xxx, a quote by Rumi about how exactly to approach knowledge, a note about the Koran, a short poem-esque piece about a "watcher of the sky" questioning how exactly he survives, a poem about losing track of a loved one and that loved one then turning the narrator of the poem into a "perfect enemy" (The opening line is the opening line of the poem "Farewell" by Shahid, which is anthologized)
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:332

Title: Untitled personal notesEven the rain
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Description: poem drafts; one is related to "Even the Rain"
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:402

Title: Postcard from Kashmir [poem]
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Date: 1979-10
Type of item: poetry, manuscript – poem, Lyric poetry
Categories: exile, letters
Full Text: Postcard from Kashmir "Kashmir shrinks into your mailbox, your home a neat four by six inches. You alwfys loved neatness, so a e inch i.‘h—aut-gundhod th my . (WK 30-9-n ' acme, a disénce is the closest you'll ever get. ‘when you retu.rn,.pof" ' u~JVV\ 1 the colours 119-91.’ 4% so brilliant, the-can-out-sonar a.a_i.‘La.'nt-'h'vleo the river never so clean, so Rﬁbultramarine. Things here are as usual, though we always talk of you; nﬂzpu. The snow isn&apo...
PID: HamiltonShahid:21

Title: From another desert [video clip]
Author: Ali, Agha Shahid, 1949-2001
Date: 1997-11, 2014-08-15
Type of item: videorecording, poetry reading
Categories: abandonment, readings, religion, myths
PID: HamiltonShahid:166

Title: Cracked portraits [poem]
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Type of item: poem, poetry
Categories: ancestors, family
Full Text: Cracked Portraits My grandfather's painted grandfather, son of Ali, a strange physician in embroidered robes, a white turban, the Koran lying open on a table beside him. I look for prayers in his eyes, for inscriptions in Arabic. I find his will: He's left us plots in the family graveyard. =2‘? Greabgrandfather? A sahib in breeches. He simply disappoints me, his hands missing in the drawing—room photo but firm as he whipped the horses or the servants. He wound the gramophone to a fu...
PID: HamiltonShahid:33

Title: Postcard from Kashmir [poem]
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Date: 2012-06-12
Type of item: poem, poetry, Lyric poetry
Categories: exile, letters
Full Text: d from Kashmir > ‘i""ks into my mailbox, rl"e:'at‘four by six inches. on ~. ed neatness. Now I hold Himalayas in my hand. And this the closest to home. V/hen I return, 't be so brilliant, “Waters so clean, a lé. My love jsed. oiywill be a little e if; it tive, black till undeveloped. (for Pavan Sabyzzl) 29
PID: HamiltonShahid:23

Title: Eurydice [video clip]
Author: Ali, Agha Shahid, 1949-2001
Date: 1983, 2014-08-15
Type of item: videorecording, poetry reading
Categories: abandonment, myths, readings
PID: HamiltonShahid:153

Title: For you
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Description: typed draft of "For You"
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: colonialism
Full Text: FOR YOU For Michael Palmer Did we run out of things or just a name for you? Above us the sun doubles its acclaim for you. Negative sun or negative shade pulled from the ground . and the image brought in one ornate frame for you. At my every word they cry “Who the hell are you?” What would you reply if they thus sent Fame to you? What a noise the sentences make writing themselves—— Here’s every word that we used as a flame for you. I remember your wine in my springtime of sorrow. Now the world...
PID: HamiltonShahid:409

Title: Country without a post office [poem]
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Type of item: poetry, poem, Lyric poetry
Categories: letters, religion, troubles in Kashmir
Full Text: The Country Without a Post Office . . . lettera dent I27 aea/‘eat /2L'm t/mt lived zz/aa.’ away. —GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Again I've returned to this country where a minaret has been entombed. Someone soaks the wicks of clay lamps in mustard oil, each night climbs its steps to read messages scratched on planets. His fingerprints cancel blank stamps in that archive for letters with doomed addresses, each house buried or empty. Empty? Because so many ﬂed, ran away, and became refugees t...
PID: HamiltonShahid:26

Title: In memory of Begum Akhtar [video clip]
Author: Ali, Agha Shahid, 1949-2001
Date: 1983, 2014-08-15
Type of item: v, poetry reading
Categories: readings, poetics, music
PID: HamiltonShahid:155

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Description: notes from fiction class Shahid attended to begin work on a novel; describes customs of sexing and gendering a child practiced 400 years ago in Kashmir
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:320

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Description: draft of "The Absent Demonstrator; miscellaneous notes
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:370

Title: Of it all
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Description: draft with handwritten corrections of "Of it All"; poem fragments; list of ghazal titles
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: abandonment
PID: HamiltonShahid:412

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Date: 1988-10-10T00:00:00
Description: sketch of an introduction for W.S. Merwin, who is visiting Hamilton College, in which Shahid speaks of his insistence on being the one who does the introducing and of how brilliant Merwin is; miscellaenous notes on existence
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:360

Title: Farewell [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: abandonment, readings, religion, troubles in kashmir
PID: HamiltonShahid:161

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Description: miscellaneous notes on theme of life changes over time; images of sky and house and meeting a woman in Phoenix airport in 1994 who said she was "programmed to be lonely"
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:326