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9780195790207

An Evening of Caged Beasts Seven Postmodernist Urdu Poets

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195790207

  • ISBN10:

    0195790200

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-08-26
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

The contributing poets are seeking to re-invent poetry. It is a new mood in the Urdu poetry from Pakistan, particularly those poets who are situated at a somewhat oblique angle to the mainstream. This book is a selection from the work of seven such poets.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction
Translator's Introduction
I Invented Poetryp. 1
Descent from Tel Za'atarp. 5
What Did the Sea Tell You?p. 15
If They Should Learnp. 19
To Live One Day Morep. 23
The Verdictp. 25
Lovep. 27
We Live Without Asking Anyonep. 31
Is Fire the Best Buyer?p. 35
We Should Forgetp. 39
You Live in Beautiful Circlesp. 41
She Dries her Tears with a Dainty Hairdryerp. 45
If My Voice Is Not Reaching Youp. 47
Life Has Been Made Easy For Usp. 49
The One for Whom No One is Waitingp. 51
If We Did Not Sing Songsp. 53
You Look Very Beautiful Asleepp. 55
Poemp. 57
A Death Sentence in Two Languagesp. 59
Kristallnachtp. 61
If You Were Miriam Konskivichp. 63
Only Unimportant Poetsp. 65
A Poemp. 67
A Dot Might Appearp. 69
A Life Divided into Piecesp. 71
Another Lifep. 73
This Mindp. 75
Avowalp. 77
After You Comep. 79
It's Hard to Write a Poemp. 83
It's Easy to Write a Poemp. 85
A Poem Comes Every Dayp. 87
Instead of This Lifep. 91
If My Hands Are Freedp. 93
It's Hard to Remove the Grimep. 95
The Beginning of Exilep. 99
A Poem Can Start From Anywherep. 101
Tree, my Friendp. 105
Surrounded by Wordsp. 109
The Moment it's Morningp. 113
I Was Thinking of Youp. 115
A Bridge is Being Builtp. 117
So Many Coloursp. 119
Here in the Hinterlandsp. 121
Until Evening Fallsp. 123
At the Edge of a Difficult Dayp. 125
I Want to Die the Death of a Manp. 127
Paperweightp. 129
Mehran, Give Mep. 131
Ghazalp. 133
Half a Roomp. 135
For Sheli, My Daughterp. 143
Lines from a Poemp. 145
A Debtp. 149
The House of Empty Eyesp. 153
The Bird Stayed in the Roomp. 155
The Bird's Eyes Openp. 159
Perhaps the Dust Might Call Me Againp. 161
The Moon-Debtp. 167
Lovep. 169
A Poem in a Dreamp. 171
The Institutep. 173
White Carpetp. 175
New Policyp. 177
The Prisoner's Telescopep. 179
Placep. 181
Tyrannyp. 183
Four Wallsp. 185
The Whistlep. 187
A Lifeless Poemp. 189
The Rat's Birthdayp. 191
Bulldozerp. 193
Kingp. 195
What Do You Do?p. 197
To the International Olympic Committeep. 199
Hopesp. 203
In the Last Petalsp. 205
Not a Soundp. 207
What Happened This Timep. 209
Nancyp. 213
For the Price of My Lifep. 217
Picking Thornsp. 219
The Singing Stonep. 223
Poemp. 225
A Tree's Terrorp. 227
The Shepherd's Dreamp. 229
The Blind Man and the Telescopep. 231
Glovesp. 233
The Iron Suitp. 235
Poemp. 239
Antsp. 241
The Last Pagep. 245
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