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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: 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: poem fragments on love and separation
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:356

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: 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: "my grandmother's dream"
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:296

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: 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
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 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: 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:400

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Description: three notes to self; draft poem-themes of agony; enemies; farewell
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:302

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Description: notes for ghazals
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:384

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Description: a letter "to Shahid" from the homeland that actually seems to be in his own handwriting. there is discussion of distance, grief, misfortune, and hardship in that "far-away place"
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:396

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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

Title: Untitled personal notes
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Publisher: W.W. Norton &Company, Inc.
Description: early draft of "tonight"; list of end rhymes; miscellaneous notes
Type of item: journal
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:182

Title: For you
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Description: draft of "For You" with handwritten corrections
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: colonialism
PID: HamiltonShahid:404

Title: Untitled personal notesMemories of the palladium
Author: Agha, Shahid Ali, 1949-2001
Publisher: W.W. Norton &Company, Inc.
Description: miscellaneous notes titled "Memories of the Palladium"
Type of item: journal, notes
Categories: miscellaneous
PID: HamiltonShahid:352