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technical requirements of the form, its predominant

imagery and themes, and its relationship with Indian

music.

Rich, Adrienne, The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950–

2001 , W. W. Norton, 2002.

This volume includes thirteen ghazals, collectively

entitled “Ghazals: Homage to Ghalib,” written in un-

rhymed, discontinuous couplets. The evocative im-

ages, pithiness of thought, and occasional modern

American idioms found in these poems create mem-

orable English ghazals.

On Location in the Loire Valley

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