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Light and heavy things : selected poems of Zeeshan Sahil / translated from Urdu by Faisal Siddiqui, Christopher Kennedy, and Mi Ditmar.
Van Pelt Library PR9540.9.S24 L5413 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sāḥil, Z̲īshān, 1961-2008.
- Series:
- Lannan translations selection series
- Lannan Translations Selection Series
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 55 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, 2013.
- Summary:
- Light and Heavy Things provides many English speaking readers an opportunity to discover the work of the late Pakistani poet Zeeshan Sahil for the first time. Born in Hyderabad, Sindh in 1961, Sahil went on to publish eight collections of poetry in Urdu. Often described as a shy man, Sahil was confined to a wheelchair and suffered from serious health problems his entire life leading to his premature death at the age of 47. Despite the difficulties he faced, Zeeshan Sahil's poetry is marked by an often lighthearted sensitivity and a post-modern sensibility that presents the political realities of Pakistan in personal terms. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Black Bird 17
- A Poem for You 18
- Poem 19
- My Uncle's House 20
- Taliban 21
- Birds 22
- What Does Suu Kyi Want? 24
- I Will Send a Bird 25
- Love 26
- Knife 27
- Poem 28
- Poetry 29
- Sun Stroke 30
- Time Bomb 31
- To Forget 32
- Poem 33
- The Unworthy 34
- Untitled 35
- Gestapo 36
- Jail 37
- Light and Heavy Things 38
- We, Every Day 39
- People 40
- Malika/Queen 41
- Four Walls 42
- One Day 43
- East 45
- The Second Sky 46
- Wall and Bird 48
- A Child's Bicycle 49
- An Olive Tree 50
- You Are an Inflammatory Poet 51.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- ISBN:
- 9781938160127
- 1938160126
- OCLC:
- 812258350
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