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Contemporary Ghazals

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Author : R. Watkins
language : en
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Release Date : 2014-09-01

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From the pages of his 'indie' literary magazine comes editor R. W. Watkins's Contemporary Ghazals: An Anthology. This volume collects the best poems from the rarely published yet groundbreaking journal dedicated to the classic Arabic and Persian form that lends it its title. This book also reflects the development of the English-language ghazal in general since the turn of the 21st century, for its pages are populated almost exclusively by regular practitioners of the form in English. As Watkins points out in the introduction, the majority of regular practitioners have been published at some time or another in an issue of Contemporary Ghazals. This is what distinguishes this collection from the first English-language ghazals anthology, Agha Shahid Ali's Ravishing DisUnities (2000), which was comprised largely of then-novices and 'name poets' who dabbled.Thus one shall find in this anthology the ghazals of such prominent poets as I. H. Rizvi of India and the late Kashmiri-American Agha Shahid Ali. Alongside their work can be found that of such longtime U.S. practitioners as William Dennis, Denver Butson, Steffen Horstmann and Barbara Little. Also to be found is the work of relative newcomers like Vivek Sharma and Nicola Masciandaro, who have established themselves as 'contenders' in just a short while. As well, Canadian editor Watkins himself is represented by some of the more experimental ghazals in the anthology. The result is a collection that can most definitely stand as the form's canon in English.Absences Assume Shadows Steffen HorstmannAbsences assume shadows that graze in the outer dark.Faces float in mists, a zephyr sways in the outer dark.Hypnotic rain falls in spirals, pavements thrumAs you mull in a daze in the outer dark.Crickets tick to sparks flaring in grasses, dust waversWith the crackling of a blaze in the outer dark.Waves splash stones off the jetty, a palm tree dancesWith its shadow as it sways in the outer dark.Through latticed smoke phantasms shimmerLike an auroral blaze in the outer dark.Dense ivy sprawls over desiccated hedgerowsThat once formed a maze in the outer dark.In a pond's mist a geisha's ghost bows, you leanTo hear what her whisper conveys in the outer dark.On the temple grounds breezes chant koansAs a bodhisattva prays in the outer dark.Wraiths formed of smoke are lit by sparksA roiling pyre sprays in the outer dark.The stone tombs of ascetics shelter windsThat rave of forays in the outer dark.

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Author : R. W. Watkins
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2014-10-11

Contemporary Ghazals written by R. W. Watkins and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-11 with Ghazals categories.

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Author : R. Watkins
language : en
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Release Date : 2017-03-06

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The Canada into which Contemporary Ghazals No. 1 was published in the summer of 2003 was not exactly a hospitable one. The Canadian literary scene of the day was simply out of sync with editor R. W. Watkins's higher technical standards and international poetic perspective. Too formal and intellectual for the artsy 'hipster' division of Generation X (represented by such publications as Broken Pencil and This Magazine); too exotic and 'indie' for the academics and writers' organisations (e.g., The League of Canadian Poets), who-in the words of Watkins--merely take solace in each other's mediocrity-, the magazine failed to attract contributors or readers in its native country-even among members of the (supposedly) more Eastern-attuned haiku community. Fortunately, the publication managed to get a foot in the door south of the border, where Kashmiri-born poet Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) had stirred up enough interest in the ghazal to warrant compiling and editing the Ravishing DisUnities anthology a few years earlier (Watkins was the only Canadian included in said book). Despite a series of delays that prevented the third issue from being published in a timely manner-owing largely to a move away from 'zine' culture and subsequent adjustments to a digital environment-Contemporary Ghazals continued to build a following in the US (and abroad) up until its discontinuation in 2016, when Watkins chose to replace it with Eastern Structures, a magazine more inclusive of various other Asian poetic forms. Drawing on material from the first three issues, this 'concise Contemporary Ghazals collection' features modern examples of the ancient Asian form by such accomplished and regular practitioners as Steffen Horstmann, Denver Butson, Barbara Little, the recently deceased I. H. Rizvi, and Watkins himself. This sampler is actually the first in a series of slated CG-related archival publications from Nocturnal Iris, so watch this space....

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Author : R. Watkins
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-06-16

Consisting primarily of expanded or revised versions, 'vault' material and "stray bastards", the 'posthumous' Contemporary Ghazals No. 7 (in the words of magazine founder and original editor R. W. Watkins) "represents the furthest one can take the ghazal form while still preserving the fundamental dynamics of its structure, if not always some semblance of its basic self". Hence the inclusion of such cutting-edge and often lengthy treatments of the form at the hands of such seasoned practitioners as Steffen Horstmann, Mike Alexander, David Raphael Israel and R. W. Watkins himself. Other familiar names found in this issue include Denver Butson, William Dennis, Barbara Little, Daniel Hales, Bill West and Red Slider. There is even a 'cut-up' of Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) ghazals as assembled and embellished by Watkins and Eugene Melino. The groundbreaking Contemporary Ghazals was discontinued as a regular publication in 2016, when Watkins chose to replace it with Eastern Structures, a magazine more inclusive of various other Asian poetic forms. But this double-length special issue-the second in a series of CG-related archival publications from Nocturnal Iris-is a not-so-subtle reminder of the earlier mag's devotion to form and a testament to its continued appeal.

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Author : R. Watkins
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-07-15

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Editor R. W. Watkins presents the long-awaited third issue of Contemporary Ghazals--the world's first English-language journal dedicated to the classical style of Asian poetry that lends it its title. No. 3 features ghazals by Vivek Sharma, Denver Butson, Marcyn Del Clements, Ann Keith, I. H. Rizvi, Nicola Masciandaro, William Dennis, Steffen Horstmann, Bill West and Watkins himself. It also contains Watkins's lengthy review of The Rebel's Silhouette--a 1995 collection of ghazals and other poems by the legendary Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984), translated from the Urdu by the late Agha Shahid Ali. A selection from this volume is reprinted in the 'Classic Revisited' section.

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Author : R. Watkins
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Editor R. W. Watkins presents the fourth issue of Contemporary Ghazals--the world's first English-language journal dedicated to the classical style of Asian poetry that lends it its title. No. 4 features ghazals by Steffen Horstmann, Denver Butson, Barbara Little, Daniel Hales, Vivek Sharma, Ann Keith, I. H. Rizvi, William Dennis, and Watkins himself. It also contains Watkins's lengthy review of Her Lover's Beloved: 51 Ghazals by Hafez--a 2009 volume of verse translated from the Persian by Mahmood Karimi-Hakak and Bill Wolak. A selection from this volume is reprinted in the 'Classic Revisited' section. Contemporary Ghazals No. 5 is scheduled to appear in the spring of 2015. Print copies of Nos. 1 and 2 are still available from editor Watkins.

Contemporary Ghazals In English 1974 2015

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Author : Paul Smith
language : en
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Release Date : 2015-11-16

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CONTEMPORARY GHAZALS IN ENGLISH (1974 - 2015)PAUL SMITHIn 1974 Australian poet Paul Smith began a 12 year journey translating his acclaimed Divan of Hafiz (many 'greats' say the world's finest poet). To do this he had to master in English the ancient form of the ghazal in which Hafiz was considered the 'Master'. So, for the first time in the English language he composed his own ghazals in the real form and content (others had done variations on it) and would continue to do so for the following forty years, often inspired by his Spiritual Master Meher Baba and Hafiz and many great poets that he would put into beautiful correct rhyming English... all Master poets of this wonderful, mystical, most ancient and most difficult form of poetry. He would even create a number of books of Anthologies of the ghazal from Adam to the latest. Here are most of his own ghazals from 1974 to the present with an Introduction on his life and a chapter on the ghazal in all languages. Selected Bibliography. 804 pages.COMMENTS ON PAUL SMITH'S TRANSLATION OF HAFIZ'S 'DIVAN'."It is not a joke... the English version of ALL the ghazals of Hafiz is a great feat and of paramount importance.." Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi (Dr. of Literature) Tehran."Superb translations. 99% Hafiz 1% Paul Smith." Ali Akbar Shapurzman, translator in English into Persian and knower of Hafiz's Divan off by heart."I was very impressed with the beauty of these books." Dr. R.K. Barz. Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University. "Smith has probably put together the greatest collection of literary facts and history concerning Hafiz." Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin Books author). Paul Smith is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets from the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish and other languages... including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, 'Attar, Sana'i, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Baba Farid, Mu'in, Lalla Ded, Mahsati and others and his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books and screenplays. www.newhumanitybooks.com

Contemporary Ghazals

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Author : MR R W Watkins
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Release Date : 2015-12-23

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Eugene A. Melino and associates present the sixth issue of Contemporary Ghazals--the world's first English-language journal dedicated to the classical style of Asian poetry that lends it its title. No. 6 features ghazals by Jeffrey P. Beck, Elizabeth Bodien, Chelsey Burden, Fern G. Z. Carr, John Philip Drury, Leland Jamieson, Alleliah Nuguid, Hal O'Leary, Emma Tejada, Donald Wilson, Jim Wilson and Melino himself. The 'Classic Revisited' section features an adaptation of an 1891 translation of Hafez by H. Wilberforce Clarke. Print copies of Contemporary Ghazals Nos. 1 and 2 are still available from founder R. W. Watkins. Mr Watkins intends on launching a new journal dedicated to traditional Eastern verse forms sometime in 2016.

Jalsaghar

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Author : Steffen Horstmann
language : en
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Release Date : 2016-10-18

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Praise for Jalsaghar My hands memorize your hourglass waist. /Slow winds pass through distant sands, sifting grains. Imagine that beauty rethought in stanza after stanza. The ghazal is the Satie of poetry, sustained by the whirling dervish, its couplets braiding into the brain. Steffen Horstmanns Jalsaghar is a stunning homage to the late Agha Shahid Ali (Terese Svoboda, author of Professor Harrimans Steam Air-Ship). A rapproachment with a formal tradition demands incisive cultural evaluation; an assay of a formal tradition not ones own demands that one become a naturalized citizen of a nation of poetry. The sure-footedness with which Steffen Horstmann navigates the ghazal forma kind of poem often misunderstood in Anglophone practiceis a testimony to long and devoted study as well as to Horstmanns skill as a practitioner, his keen ear, and his passion for the possibilities of the kind of dtente poetry offers: a genuine cross-pollination of the music, the landscapes, the souls of distant and yet always kindred lives (T. R. Hummer, author of Skandalon). Steffen Horstmanns book of contemporary ghazals shows us the ways in which formin this case precise, musical, devotional in its originscan act as a vehicle for meditation. The rhymes and repetitions of the ghazal are part prayer, part spell, and as such they bind together in language the world of material things and the world of spirit, which is also a world of longing. Agha Shahid Ali brought the tradition of the ghazal into the center of our contemporary and American poetic repertoire; Steffen Horstmann has carried it into our young century, made it new (Mark Wunderlich, author of The Earth Avails).

Call Me Ishmael Tonight A Book Of Ghazals

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Author : Agha Shahid Ali
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2004-10-17

Call Me Ishmael Tonight A Book Of Ghazals written by Agha Shahid Ali and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-17 with Poetry categories.

"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.

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