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Mad Heart Be Brave: Essays on the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali Kazim Ali, Editor https://www.press.umich.edu/9493485/mad_heart_be_brave University of Michigan Press, 2017

Contents

Introduction 1 Kazim Ali the World Is Full of Paper.Write to Me. 12 Sejal Shah Between Postindependence and the Cold War:agha Shahid ali’s Publications with the Calcutta Writers Workshop 20 Rita Banerjee “this is an archive”:agha Shahid ali’s Postcards from Kashmir 33 Amanda Golden the veiled Sweets:agha Shahid ali’s Surprising Use of Humor 45 Ravi Shankar Beyond Borders, Nations, and exclusivist Identities: agha Shahid ali’s Poetics of Plurality 55 Abin Chakraborty “Separation’s Geography”:agha Shahid ali’s Scholarship of evanescence 71 Amy Newman “a route of evanescence”:agha Shahid ali in america 88 Christopher Merrill the Loved One always Leaves:the Poetic Friendship of agha Shahid ali and James Merrill 99 Jason Schneiderman agha Shahid ali,World Literature, and the representation of Kashmir 104 Stephen Burt the Shifting Nationalisms of agha Shahid ali’s Poetry 118 Raza Ali Hasan Revised Pages

Mad Heart Be Brave: Essays on the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali Kazim Ali, Editor https://www.press.umich.edu/9493485/mad_heart_be_brave University of Michigan Press, 2017 Missing Home, Imagining violence:agha Shahid ali’s engagement with Kashmir 129 Syed Humayoun Poet in Srinagar 142 Feroz Rather requiem:agha Shahid ali’s Last Canzone 152 Dur e Aziz Amna Palimpsestic Intertextualities in “a Lost Memory of delhi” and “the Last Saffron” 156 Mihaela Moscaliuc Borrowed Words:the Use of Quotations and Italics in the Ghazals of agha Shahid ali 163 Reginald Dwayne Betts “the grief of broken flesh”:the dialectic of desire and death in agha Shahid ali’s Lyrics 170 Mahwash Shoaib “Who will inherit the last night of the past?” agha Shahid ali’s architecture of Nostalgia as translation 183 Shadab Zeest Hashmi the Chain 190 Grace Schulman the Postcard and the Puzzle: For agha Shahid ali 194 Ada Limón the Ghat of the Only World:agha Shahid ali in Brooklyn 199 Amitav Ghosh an Introduction to The Beloved Witness Project and a Selected Bibliography of agha Shahid ali’s Publications in India and america, 1972–2001 215 Patricia O’Neill with Reid Larson Contributors 227