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The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems is an anthology of the remarkable poems written by Agha Shahid Ali during his lifetime. Summary Of The Book Blended with the intricacies of European and Urdu traditional cultures, the poetic works of Agha Shahid Ali had the power to transform the ordinary into something extraordinary. The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems is an anthology of his life works that spans to thirty years of his career as a poet and six successful volumes that he had the chance to publish during his lifetime. This book opens with his last poetic composition The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems, a canzone, which was published posthumously. He had penned this poem a year prior to his death. This book contains some of his famous poems like Postcard from Kashmir, A Lost Memory of Delhi, Snowmen, Cracked Portraits, Story of a Silence, Poets on Bathroom Walls, Now No Longer Little, Medusa, The Blessed Word: A prologue, Some Visions of the World Cashmere, New Delhi Airport, I have Loved, and many more remarkable poems. From his early works to his mature translations of Ghazals, the readers can evidently see his progression from his directly descriptive poetic works to the dynamic and stratified compositions of his later collections in this book. This is the underlying factor that adds to make The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems, the ultimate book for his fans.    About Agha Shahid Ali Agha Shahid Ali is a prolific Kashmiri-American poet, translator, and editor known for his graphic poetry. He lost his life to brain cancer and breathed his last in Amherst, Massachusetts, in the year 2001. Some of his other poetry collections are compiled in books like A Walk Through the Yellow Pages, A Nostalgist's Map of America, The Half-Inch Himalayas, The Country Without a Post Office, Call Me Ishmael Tonight, and Rooms Are Never Finished. Agha Shahid Ali was born in New Delhi, India, in the year 1949. He attended the University of Kashmir and the Hindu College, Delhi for his graduation and master’s degree. He obtained his PhD degree in English from the Pennsylvania State University in the year 1984. He also owns a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Arizona in the year 1985. He worked as a teacher in various reputed colleges like Bennington College, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Baruch College, University of Utah, Warren Wilson College, New York University, and the Hamilton College. Agha Shahid Ali received various honours like Guggenheim Fellowship, Pushcart Prize, and Ingram-Merrill Fellowship. The University of Utah Press patronises the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize in remembrance and a tribute to the famous poet and scholar every year.