Background
Agha Shahid Ali was born on February 4, 1949, in New Delhi, India. He was raised in Kashmir but left for the United States in 1976.
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The Half-Inch Himalayas is a stellar collection of early work by the poet Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001).
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1995
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Agha Shahid Ali was born on February 4, 1949, in New Delhi, India. He was raised in Kashmir but left for the United States in 1976.
Agha attended the University of Kashmir, the University of Delhi, and, upon arriving in the United States in 1975, Pennsylvania State University and the University of Arizona.
Agha taught at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Princeton College, and in the MFA program at Warren Wilson College.
Ali is best known in the U.S. and identified himself as an American poet writing in English. The recipient of numerous fellowships and awards and a finalist for the National Book Award. Ali was noted as a poet uniquely able to blend multiple ethnic influences and ideas in both traditional forms and elegant free-verse.
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2013(The Half-Inch Himalayas is a stellar collection of early ...)
1987Quotes from others about the person
“Ali so thoroughly inhabits his exile, in this haunting life’s work, that he makes of it-both for his own spirit and for his readers-a dwelling place.”
