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The veiled suite: the collected poems
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W.W. Norton & Co
Publication Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book - First edition.
The Veiled Suite
Postcard from Kashmir
A Lost Memory of Delhi
A Dream of Glass Bangles
Snowmen
Cracked Portraits
Story of a Silence
Prayer Rug
The Dacca Gauzes
The Season of the Plains
A Monsoon Note on Old Age
A Butcher
The Fate of the Astrologer Sitting on the Pavement Outside the Delhi Railway Station
After Seeing Kozintsev's King Lear in Delhi
Chandni Chowk, Delhi
Cremation
In Memory of Begum Akhtar
Homage to Faiz Ahmed Faiz
A Wrong Turn
Vacating an Apartment
The Previous Occupant
Leaving Your City
Philadelphia, 2:00 A.M.
The Jogger on Riverside Drive, 5:00 A.M.
Flight from Houston in January
Stationery
Survivor
I Dream It Is Afternoon When I Return to Delhi
A Call
The Tiger at 4:00 A.M.
In the Mountains
Houses
Bell Telephone Hours
1. Has anyone heard from you lately?
2. Call long distance: the next best thing to being there
3. It s getting late. Do your friends know where you are?
4. Reach out and touch someone far away. Use your phone for all it's worth
5. Today, talk is cheap. Call somebody
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Poets on Bathroom Walls
Christmas, 1980s
An Interview with Red Riding Hood, Now No Longer Little
The Wolf's Postscript to "Little Red Riding Hood"
Hansel's Game
Eurydice
Beyond the Ash Rains
A Rehearsal of Loss
Crucifixion
Leaving Sonora
I Dream I Return to Tucson in the Monsoons
A Nostalgist's Map of America
In Search of Evanescence
1. Students of mist
2. It was a year of brilliant water
3. When on Route 80 in Ohio
4. Someone wants me to live
5. From the Faraway Nearby
6. In Pennsylvania seven years ago
7. We must always have a place
8. You
9. The way she had in her rushes of resonance
10. Shahid, you never
11. "Phil was afraid of being forgotten"
The Keeper of the Dead Hotel
From Another Desert
1. Cries Majnoon
2. In the grief of broken stone
3. Each statue will be broken
4. There again is memory
5. Cries Majnoon
6. His blood shines
7. Who now weeps
8. Majnoon was again sighted
9. Majnoon
10. In prison Majnoon weeps for Satan
11. The prisoners know they've been
12. Ambushed in century after century by the police of God
13. The dead are here. Listen to survivors
No
Resume
Notes on the Sea's Existence
Medusa
The Youngest of the Graeae
Desert Landscape
I See Chile in My Rearview Mirror
Snow on the Desert
The Blessed Word: A Prologue
Farewell
I See Kashmir from New Delhi at Midnight
The Last Saffron
I Dream I Am the Only Passenger on Flight 423 to Srinagar
"Some Vision of the World Cashmere"
"Lo, A Tint Cashmere!/Lo, A Rose!"
Ghazal
Dear Shahid
A Pastoral
Return to Harmony 3
The Country Without a Post Office
The Floating Post Office
The Correspondent
A Fate's Brief Memoir
At the Museum
A History of Paisley
A Footnote to History
Son et Lumiere at Shalimar Garden
Ghazal
First Day of Spring
Ghazal
Death Row
The City of Daughters
Muharram in Srinagar, 1992
Hans Christian Ostro
A Villanelle
After the August Wedding in Lahore, Pakistan
Lenox Hill
From Amherst to Kashmir
1. Karbala: A History of the "House of Sorrow"
2. Zainab's Lament in Damascus
3. Summers of Translation
4. Above the Cities
5. Memory
6. New Delhi Airport
7. Film Bbajan Found on a 78 RPM
8. Srinagar Airport
9. God
10. Ghalib's Ghazal
11. The Fourth Day
12. By the Waters of the Sind
Rooms Are Never Finished
Ghazal
Barcelona Airport
A Secular Comedy
1. Heaven
2. Earth
3. Hell
The Nature of Temporal Order
Ghazal
On Hearing a Lover Not Seen for Twenty Years Has Attempted Suicide
Suicide Note
Ghazal
The Purse-Seiner Atlantis
Eleven Stars Over Andalusia
1. On our last evening on this land
2. How can I write above the clouds?
3. There is a sky beyond the sky for me
4. I am one of the kings of the end
5. One day I will sit on the pavement
6. Truth has two faces and the snow is black
7. Who am I after the night of the estranged?
8. O water, be a string to my guitar
9. In the exodus I love you more
10. I want from love only the beginning
11. Violins
I Dream I Am at the Ghat of the Only World
I Have Loved
For You
Of It All
Of Fire
Things
Shines
My Word
From The Start
Angels
Of Water
As Ever
Land
Not All, Only a Few Return
Water
Of Snow
Air
About Me
In Marble
Bones
In
Beyond English
Of Light
Stars
For Time
God
Forever
After You
In Arabic
Tonight
Existed.
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