

He died peacefully, in his sleep, of brain cancer in December, 2001. He was widely credited for helping to popularize the ghazal form in America.Īli taught at the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as well as creative writing programs at University of Utah, Warren Wilson College and New York University. Yellow pages definition, a classified telephone directory or section of a directory, listing subscribers by the type of business or service they offer. His poems are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) and many other anthologies.Īli was also a translator of Faiz Ahmed Faiz (The Rebel's Silhouette Selected Poems) and editor (Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English). His last book was Call Me Ishmael Tonight, a collection of English ghazals. His poetry collections include A Walk Through the Yellow Pages, The Half-Inch Himalayas, A Nostalgist's Map of America, The Country Without a Post Office, Rooms Are Never Finished (finalist for the National Book Award, 2001). Today, however, most of us are likely reading this on a touch screen device instead of flipping through thick yellow-pages books This post will detail how much it costs to put an ad in the Yellow pages and whether it is worth it. It could have been a rolled up Chicago Tribune (I live in Colorado now) and. Agha Shahid Ali (आगा शाहीद अली) was an American poet of Kashmiri ancestry and upbringing. When the world before Google existed, Yellow Pages Business Advertising used to be an excellent option. Seeing this plastic wrapped yellow pages book lying at the end of my driveway today, it felt like a blast from the past.
