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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