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The Last Speaker

The Last Speaker

Selected Poems of Agha Shahid Ali | Modern Indian English Poetry Collection Featuring Ghazals, Sonnets & Free Verse

Agha Shahid Ali
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Agha Shahid Ali created poems that mesmerize and dazzle as they embrace his aesthetics and capture his landscapes of the heart.

The poems in The Last Speaker allow the reader to be immersed in history, memory, and nostalgia that Agha Shahid Ali wove into the tapestries he created as he evolved as a poet. Ranging from free verse to traditional poetic forms, his poetry encompasses canzones, sestinas, sonnets, sapphics, pantoums, villanelles, prose poems, and, of course, ghazals in English.

Since his death in 2001, scholarly articles and dissertations continue to delve into the craft of Agha Shahid Ali’s poetry. This selection offers a new lens that, while highlighting what are now his ‘classic’ poems, also brings to the forefront other poems that are even more haunting.

Imprint: India Penguin Modern Classics

Published: Jan/2026

ISBN: 9780143481669

Length : 208 Pages

MRP : ₹399.00

The Last Speaker

Selected Poems of Agha Shahid Ali | Modern Indian English Poetry Collection Featuring Ghazals, Sonnets & Free Verse

Agha Shahid Ali

Agha Shahid Ali created poems that mesmerize and dazzle as they embrace his aesthetics and capture his landscapes of the heart.

The poems in The Last Speaker allow the reader to be immersed in history, memory, and nostalgia that Agha Shahid Ali wove into the tapestries he created as he evolved as a poet. Ranging from free verse to traditional poetic forms, his poetry encompasses canzones, sestinas, sonnets, sapphics, pantoums, villanelles, prose poems, and, of course, ghazals in English.

Since his death in 2001, scholarly articles and dissertations continue to delve into the craft of Agha Shahid Ali’s poetry. This selection offers a new lens that, while highlighting what are now his ‘classic’ poems, also brings to the forefront other poems that are even more haunting.

Buying Options
Paperback / Hardback
Amazon

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Agha Shahid Ali

Agha Shahid Ali, a Kashmiri-American, wrote nine poetry collections, Bone-Sculpture (1972), Begum Akhtar (1979), The Half-Inch Himalayas (1987), A Walk Through the Yellow Pages (1987), A Nostalgist’s Map of America (1991), The Beloved Witness: Selected Poems (1992), The Country Without a Post Office (1997), Rooms Are Never Finished (2002), and Shahid’s own book of ghazals, Call Me Ishmael Tonight (2003, published posthumously). His book of translations of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s selected poems, The Rebel’s Silhouette was published in 1991, and a second edition in 1995. He received fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,

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