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Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Description: Shahid envisions his hand as a city, a city where for some reason each finger goes straight to a prison, then a short bit about the latin names for vegetables and flowers, then a recanting of a tragedy of two innocent brothers being shot in cold blood in the village of Khanan (a village supposedly "gifted" to Shahid's grandmother
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:374

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Description: miscellaneous notes on weather and a meteor shower and image of a river; draft of poem with themes of time dissolving, people escaping, and a guest who is visiting and cooking
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:328

Title: Tonight
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Description: typed draft of "Ghazal" from volume The Country without a Post Office
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: religion
Full Text: GHAZAL Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell tonight before you agonize him in farewell tonight? Pale hands thatg once loved me beside the Shalimar: Whom else from rapture’s road will you expel tonight? I‘ Those “Fabrics of Cashmere——” “to make Me beautiful——” “Trinket”—-to gem——”Me to adorn——How tell”-—tonight? I beg for haven: Prisons, let open your gates—— A refugee from Belief seeks a cell tonight. God’s vintage loneliness has turned to vinegar—— All the archangels——their wings f...
PID: HamiltonShahid:422

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Description: seven sections denoted by xxx 1 "The last yes." 2 a description of escaping in winter while time seems to dissolve 3 "And then- my shawl draped over you- ending my mirrors." 4 asphodel 5 "Just as I saw the spiral wreck of human love and all that's human," a quote from the fresnch writer/artist of polish descent Guillame Apollinaire 6 a nost about how Husband of Water would be a good title for a chapbook 7 "I never knew there could be so many things I did not want," a quote of Socrates
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:330

Title: Untitled personal notesGhazal
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Description: titled GHAZAL, Laurence Hope quote at the top of the page, "Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar.", then drafting for Shahid's poem "Tonight"
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:340

Title: Tonight [poem]
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Type of item: poetry, poem
Full Text: Tonight Pa/e /2a/234 I love? éealae t/xv Sbalimar — LAURENCE HOPE VVhere are you now? VVho lies beneath your spell tonight? VVhom else from rapture’s road will you expel tonight? Those “Fabrics of Cashmere—" "to make Me beautiful—" "Trinket"—to gem—"Me to adorn—How tell"—tonight? I beg for haven: Prisons, let open your gates-— A refugee from Belief seeks a cell tonight. God's vintage loneliness has turned to vinegar—- All the archangels ——their wings fr...
PID: HamiltonShahid:32

Title: An interview with Red Riding Hood, now no longer little [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: readings, myths
PID: HamiltonShahid:157

Title: Where violence has silenced verse [essay]
Author: Gargan, Edward A.
Publisher: The New York Times Magazine
Date: 1992-11-22
Type of item: essay, essay, journal article
Categories: troubles in Kashmir
Full Text: UJHEBE IDIEIIIE IIIIS IIEIIIEII UERSE The state of Kashmir is a garden lost to the savagery of war. BY ED WARD A. GARGAN EFORE the chatter of automatic weapons became nightfalrs clarion in the summer capital of Kashmir, before bullet-ridden corpses started washing up on the shores of placid lakes. before unspeakable atrocities got to be routine, this land of green valleys and soaring Himalayan peaks was a tourist haven Of Kashmir, the early 17th-century Mogul ruler Jahangir wrote: Agar firdau...
PID: HamiltonShahid:24

Title: "Ghazal" [poem]
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Date: 1997, 2012-07-10
Type of item: Ghazals, poetry, poem
Categories: textiles, religion
Full Text: Ghazal Pale loancls I loved beside tlae Sloalimar —-LAURENCE HOPE Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell tonight before you agonize him in farewell tonight? Pale hands that once loved me beside the Shalimar: Whom else from rapture's road will you expel tonight? Those "Fabrics of Cashmere——" "to make Me beautiful———" "Trinket"——to gem—"l\/le to adorn———How—tell"——tonight? I beg for haven: Prisons, let open your gates— A refugee from Belief s...
PID: HamiltonShahid:150

Title: The previous occupant [video clip]
Author: Ali, Agha Shahid, 1949-2001
Date: 1983, 2014-08-15
Type of item: videorecording, poetry reading
Categories: readings, identity
PID: HamiltonShahid:154

Title: Untitled personal notesOf fire
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Publisher: W.W. Norton &Company, Inc.
Description: entitled "Husband of Water" and quote from Faiz
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:372

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Description: a personification of death and his actions, a pervasive feeling of resisting the onward tug of time
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:358

Title: Untitled personal notesThe empress of ice cream
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Publisher: W.W. Norton &Company, Inc.
Description: draft of "The Empress of Ice Cream"; prose titled "The Absent Demonstrator"
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:368

Title: A lost memory of Delhi [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, identity
PID: HamiltonShahid:171

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Description: two lines of a poem about Ishmael, the word CRACKDOWN, and a note about Stephen Paul who is an unspecified boy from Utah
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:304

Title: True subject (The poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz) [essay]
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Date: 1990, 2012-06-13
Type of item: journal article, essay
Categories: exile, translation
Full Text: GRAND STREET This etlmocentrism is not just visible in attitudes to- wards the Middle East; it is visible, quite clearly, in atti- tudes towards the entire Muslim world—a fact that may help explain why The True Subject (Princeton University Press, 1988), Naomi Lazard’s excellent translations of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poetry, has been virtually ignored. A hand- some bilingual edition (the Urdu calligraphy by Ashfaq Ahmed is truly elegant), The True Subject is part of Prince- ton University Press’s ...
PID: HamiltonShahid:20

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Description: short poem about a body breaking under the night sky, and the flowers and stars that surround the scence, a short poem about the cries coming from a grandmother's house, then excerpts or early drafting from his poem "I Dream I am the Only Passenger on Flight 423 to Srinagar"
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:344

Title: For you
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Description: typed draft of "For You" with handwritten corrections
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: colonialism
PID: HamiltonShahid:406

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Description: "my grandmother's dream"
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:296

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Description: poem fragments on love and separation
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:356

Title: Snow on the desert [video clip]: 9
Author: Ali, Agha Shahid, 1949-2001
Date: 1997-11, 2014-08-15
Type of item: videorecording, poetry reading
Categories: readings, music, family
PID: HamiltonShahid:165

Title: Of it all
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Description: typed draft of "Of it All"
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: exile
Full Text: GHAZAL for Anthony Lacavaro I say This, after all, is the trick of it all when suddenly you say, "Arabic of it all." / After Algebra there was Geomeftry——and then Calculus—— But I'd already failed the arithmetic of it all. White men across the U.S. love their wives‘ curries—- I say 0 No! to the turmeric of it all. "Suicide represents . . . a privileged moment. Then what keeps you——and me--from being sick of it all? The telephones work, but I'm still cut off from you. ...
PID: HamiltonShahid:417

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Description: miscellaneous fragments related to themes of "The Country without a Post Office"
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:376

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Description: notes separated by xxx, mostly about gardens and the way a heart can ache, one about a dream where Shahid is on a very specific flight
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:318