Praise for Jalsaghar

"My hands memorize your hourglass waist. /Slow winds pass through distant sands, sifting grains. Imagine that beauty rethought in stanza after stanza. The ghazal is the Satie of poetry, sustained by the whirling dervish, its couplets braiding into the brain. Steffen Horstmann's Jalsaghar is a stunning homage to the late Agha Shahid Ali."

-Terese Svoboda, author of Professor Harriman's Steam Air-Ship

"A rapproachment with a formal tradition demands incisive cultural evaluation; an assay of a formal tradition "not one's own" demands that one become...

Praise for Jalsaghar

"My hands memorize your hourglass waist. /Slow winds pass through distant sands, sifting grains. Imagine that beauty rethought in stanza after stanza. The ghazal is the Satie of poetry, sustained by the whirling dervish, its couplets braiding into the brain. Steffen Horstmann's Jalsaghar is a stunning homage to the late Agha Shahid Ali."

-Terese Svoboda, author of Professor Harriman's Steam Air-Ship

"A rapproachment with a formal tradition demands incisive cultural evaluation; an assay of a formal tradition "not one's own" demands that one become...

Praise for Ujjain

-Steffen Horstmann's book Ujjain is a remarkable collection of Ghazals in Eng-lish. Steffen uses an ancient form of poetry to express the sensibility of a modern day poet, and by doing so, he crosses the boundaries of languages, cultures, and traditions. Agha Shahid Ali couldn't have been more proud of his Shagird Steffen Horstmann, who has kept the torch burning, that he passed on to him after writing Call Me Ishmael Tonight.-

-Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, author of Bare Soul

-The meditative and sublime states in Steffen Horstmann's radiant...

Praise for Ujjain

-Steffen Horstmann's book Ujjain is a remarkable collection of Ghazals in Eng-lish. Steffen uses an ancient form of poetry to express the sensibility of a modern day poet, and by doing so, he crosses the boundaries of languages, cultures, and traditions. Agha Shahid Ali couldn't have been more proud of his Shagird Steffen Horstmann, who has kept the torch burning, that he passed on to him after writing Call Me Ishmael Tonight.-

-Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, author of Bare Soul

-The meditative and sublime states in Steffen Horstmann's radiant...