A Bowl of Warm Air

by Alvi, Moniza

• ISBN13: 9780192825209
• ISBN10: 0192825208
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-08-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In this wonderful second collection, Moniza Alvi steps boldly into the territory she made her own in The Country at my Shoulder , a book which made her one of the chosen "New Generation" poets. These poems, many based on visits to her birthplace, Pakistan, are at once beautiful, thoughtful, and quite marvelous. Alvi's work has grown in confidence and warmth since her last collection published in 1993. A greater depth of seriousness infuses her poems on Pakistan and India, but she has retained her delicacy of spirit and the gentle surrealism that identifies her work.

Author Biography

Born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1954, Moniza Alvi teaches English part-time at a girls' school in South London. Her first collection of poems The Country at my Shoulder (OPB, 1993) led to her being chosen as one of the `New Generation' of poets.

Table of Contents

And If	p. 3
The Double City	p. 4
Hindi Urdu Bol Chaal	p. 6
Fighter Planes	p. 8
The Wedding	p. 9
The Airborne House	p. 11
My Father's Father's Father	p. 12
The Courtyard	p. 13
An Unknown Girl	p. 14
My Aunts Don't Want to Move	p. 16
Shoes and Socks	p. 17
The Colours of the World	p. 18
Grand Hotel	p. 20
Lahore Canal	p. 21
Rolling	p. 22
Where Have You Been?	p. 24
Delhi Christmas	p. 25
Rainy Season	p. 26
O Maharani	p. 27
The Laughing Moon	p. 30
Exile	p. 33
Under the Brick	p. 34
Houdini	p. 35
The Illusionist	p. 36
Women of this World	p. 37
Burial	p. 38
A Bowl of Warm Air	p. 39
Moving In	p. 40
Our House	p. 41
Afterlife	p. 42
My Prehistoric Name	p. 43
All There Is	p. 44
Story of a City	p. 45
Tuning In	p. 46
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