Call Me Ishmael Tonight

A Book of Ghazals

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by Agha Shahid Ali

W. W. Norton and Co.

Due/Published October 2004, 87 pages, paper

ISBN 0393326128

New in paper (F04)

This collection by the Kashmiri-American poet (finalist for the National Book Award in 2001) is his last witness. In many of the ghazals, Ali salutes poets known and loved--W. S. Merwin, Mark Strand, James Tate, and more--while in other s he courageously faces his own mortality.