tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357199451052416763.post1837778493338313645..comments2023-10-24T06:55:48.859-07:00Comments on HERE, WHERE I AM: RAMADAN: REMEMBERING AGHA SHAHID ALIKathryn Stripling Byerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867152753841610044noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357199451052416763.post-31438347476873440792010-08-13T13:24:37.821-07:002010-08-13T13:24:37.821-07:00Thanks, Kay, for this wonderful introduction. &quo...Thanks, Kay, for this wonderful introduction. "Damn you, Elijah, I’ll bless Jezebel tonight" reached out and grabbed me. Perfect tribute to Ramadan.Tess Kincaidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04889725786678984293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357199451052416763.post-20008561410606431932010-08-13T10:36:44.638-07:002010-08-13T10:36:44.638-07:00Agha Shahid Ali died much too early of cancer.
The...Agha Shahid Ali died much too early of cancer.<br />The strife in his beloved Kashmir broke his heart. It's ongoing, with India being faced with failure in trying to bring peace to this beautiful and much fought over region.Kathryn Stripling Byerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17867152753841610044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357199451052416763.post-4709158855422257662010-08-13T10:34:19.972-07:002010-08-13T10:34:19.972-07:00Thanks to all of you for visiting. I've been ...Thanks to all of you for visiting. I've been a blog-slouch lately but hope to get back to it if only on a once a week basis.<br /> Lorenze, how to get the hate-mongers to the doorway of art is the most daunting challenge I can imagine, and yet art, especially literature, enables us to live more than one life, to live inside characters and voices not our own and come to feel them as our own.Kathryn Stripling Byerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17867152753841610044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357199451052416763.post-9032776410908171642010-08-11T15:23:11.671-07:002010-08-11T15:23:11.671-07:00Thanks for sharing this Kay ;)Thanks for sharing this Kay ;)Jessie Cartyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13181286764480973423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357199451052416763.post-27733263656786838992010-08-10T20:41:41.947-07:002010-08-10T20:41:41.947-07:00Who knows which way the world will go - caring for...Who knows which way the world will go - caring for God's creation or despising and killing them? I wish I could be around long enough "to see what the end is going to be." ( as Maya Angelou said)<br /><br />I'm with Agha Shahid Ali tonight.<br /><br />"This is mere insult, this is no farewell tonight.<br />And I, Shahid, only am escaped to tell thee—God sobs in my arms. Call me Ishmael tonight."<br />---------------<br />Agha Shahid AliNancy Simpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06468975663711270696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357199451052416763.post-89617060378360595182010-08-10T16:24:11.488-07:002010-08-10T16:24:11.488-07:00I am thrilled to find your blog, especially to com...I am thrilled to find your blog, especially to come to it through such a lovely poem as this. Art does have the power to face down hate, if given only a bit of a chance. Best, JayNovice Naturalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10219749494674733196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357199451052416763.post-81845824753254002842010-08-10T10:54:35.429-07:002010-08-10T10:54:35.429-07:00I think the enigmatic world has never changed, wil...I think the enigmatic world has never changed, will never change..so it seems we will also always have great artists..here's to the poet, and thank you for this introduction to Agha Shahid AliLynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11985979258848310351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357199451052416763.post-68490774962212695772010-08-10T10:36:27.742-07:002010-08-10T10:36:27.742-07:00Wonderful post, Kay! An amazing poem, filled with ...Wonderful post, Kay! An amazing poem, filled with such great images.Vicki Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08114677510459055768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357199451052416763.post-24700860708889619192010-08-10T07:45:09.735-07:002010-08-10T07:45:09.735-07:00Thanks, Kathryn, for the intro to Agha Shahid Ali ...Thanks, Kathryn, for the intro to Agha Shahid Ali and for your parting thoughts on the power of art to vanquish hate. I, too, want to believe that art can have such power; I wish I knew how to bring the type of hate-mongerers you describe to its doorway.Lorenzo — Alchemist's Pillowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07522265816460154722noreply@blogger.com