Tag: borders

• The Graph of a Cry

  

  My dissertation is available as a book for academics, libraries, and those who are interested to read more about the phenomenal journey of the American ghazal. This dissertation analyzes the journey of the ancient Arabic poetic form of the ghazal to America to provide insights into transnational poetry and cultural mobility. While the movement of…

  Diligent Candy

  13 Aug 2022

  Academic, Art, Awareness, Books, dissertation, diversity, Education, Gender, Personal is Political, phd, Poetry, Read, research, Story, Travel

  Academic, Adrienne Rich, Agha Shahid Ali, american ghazal, amrita das, arabia, Book, borders, cultural mobility, diederik oostdijk, dissertation, erin la cour, form, Gazelle, ghazals, India, intersectionality, ipskamp, jahan ramazani, literary history, literature, love, lyric, male, Marilyn Hacker, melancholy, migration, minorities, Mirza Ghalib, movement, patriarchy, persia, phd, poetic form, Poetry, representation, research, transnational, transnational poetry, Travel, traveling poetry

• Paris in the rain

  

  Saturday, January 10, 2015, I was to be in Paris for the day to meet poet and translator Marilyn Hacker. I had many questions about her experience with the ghazal and ghazal poets; she was generous enough to offer her day to me. On Monday 5th I booked my tickets to travel by the Thalys…

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  11 Jan 2015

  Academic, Apoorva, Awareness, Books, Gender, Parenting, Photography, Poetry, Story

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