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Rococo and Other Worlds: Selected Poems

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

4.1/5 ( ratings)

First English language publication of Urdu's greatest modern poet

Afzal Ahmed Syed holds a unique place among contemporary poets of the Urdu language, as an acknowledged master of both the classical and modern Urdu poetic forms. The poems in Rococo and Other Worlds explore the mythology and historical realities of South Asia and the Middle East; their bold imagery creates narratives of voluptuous perfection, which remain inseparable from the political realities that Syed witnessed as a young observer of the violent separation of East Pakistan and emergence of Bangladesh in 1971 and of the Lebanese civil war in 1976. Musharraf Ali Farooqi's sensitive translations bring this extraordinary work to English readers for the first time.

Language: English

Pages: 108

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Release: March 01, 2010

ISBN: 081956933X

ISBN 13: 9780819569332

Rococo and Other Worlds: Selected Poems

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

4.1/5 ( ratings)

First English language publication of Urdu's greatest modern poet

Afzal Ahmed Syed holds a unique place among contemporary poets of the Urdu language, as an acknowledged master of both the classical and modern Urdu poetic forms. The poems in Rococo and Other Worlds explore the mythology and historical realities of South Asia and the Middle East; their bold imagery creates narratives of voluptuous perfection, which remain inseparable from the political realities that Syed witnessed as a young observer of the violent separation of East Pakistan and emergence of Bangladesh in 1971 and of the Lebanese civil war in 1976. Musharraf Ali Farooqi's sensitive translations bring this extraordinary work to English readers for the first time.

Language: English

Pages: 108

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Release: March 01, 2010

ISBN: 081956933X

ISBN 13: 9780819569332

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