Category: Spring 2011 Issue – Shahid

A History of Paisley for Anuradha Dingwaney
by Agha Shahid Ali Their footsteps formed the paisley when Parvati, angry after a quarrel, ran away from Shiva. He eventually caught

Farewell for Patricia O’Neill
by Agha Shahid Ali Solitudinum faciunt et pacem appellant. — Tacitus (speaking through a British chieftain

The Wolf’s Postscript to “Little Red Riding Hood”
by Agha Shahid Ali First, grant me my sense of history: I did it for posterity, for kindergarten teachers and a clear moral: Little girls

Stationery
by Agha Shahid Ali The moon did not become the sun. It just fell on the desert in great sheets, reams of silver handmade by you. The night is

Foreword
by Hena Ahmad Agha Shahid Ali was a poet, an Indian – American, a Kashmiri – American, an “all – American Shiite” (as he

Agha Shahid Ali Interview
Agha Shahid Ali: The Lost Interview Conducted by Stacey Chase This interview with the late Kashmiri – American poet Agha Shahid Ali,

Shahid Reads His Own Palm
by Reginald Dwayne Betts, 2009 Beatrice Hawley Award, 2010, Alice James Books, 80 pages, paper, $15.95, ISBN: 978-1-882295-81-4 Buy the Book In

Transistor Rodeo
by Jon Wilkins, University of Utah Press, 2010, 69 pages, paper, $12.95, ISBN: 978-1-60781-002-5 Buy the Book note regarding the following

In The Human Zoo
by Jennifer Perrine, University of Utah Press, 2011, 88 pages, paper, $12.95, ISBN: 978-1607811442 Buy the Book note regarding the following
