Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals

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

The beloved Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali presents his own American ghazals. Calling on a line or phrase from fellow poets, Ali salutes those known and loved-W. S. Merwin, Mark Strand, James Tate, and more-while in other searingly honest verse he courageously faces his own mortality.