"Ali's ghazals are contemporary and colloquial, deceptively simple, yet still grounded in tradition....Highly recommended."—Library Journal

Agha Shahid Ali was a finalist for the National Book Award for Rooms Are Never Finished. He died in 2001.

Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 20041000
Pages: 88

His ghazals offer a path toward a level of lyric expansiveness few poets would dare to aspire to. (Michael Palmer)