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Ghazalnāma: Poems from Delhi, Belfast, and Urdu

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by Maaz Bin Bilal
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Availability:In StockContributor:Maaz Bin BilalPublish date:2019-07-01Pages:146
Language:EnglishPublisher:Yoda PressISBN-13:9789382579748ISBN-10:9382579745UPC:9789382579748Book Category:Poetry, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:European, WritingBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, PoetrySize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.37 inchesWeight:0.3197Product ID:SCGG2TJM55

The ghazal for Maaz Bin Bilal becomes a way to love as well as to remember, to dialogue as well as to critique, to mourn as well as to memorialize. It aspires to the condition of statement and song, seeking to combine a love of rhetorical flourish with tender lyricism, political assertion with whimsy, ... -- Arundhathi Subramaniam

'Let poetry come, ' declares Maaz confidently in his opening ghazal, and come it does, in English and from Urdu, in such poems as 'Biryani in Belfast', destined to become a cult classic...-- Gabriel Rosenstock

Language:EnglishPublisher:Yoda PressISBN-13:9789382579748ISBN-10:9382579745UPC:9789382579748Book Category:Poetry, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:European, WritingBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, PoetrySize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.37 inchesWeight:0.3197Product ID:SCGG2TJM55
Bilal, Maaz Bin: - Maaz Bin Bilal lived in Old Delhi for most of his life before leaving for a doctorate in literary studies at the Queen's University of Belfast. He now teaches at Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities in Sonipat where he also lives when not back home in Delhi. Maaz also received the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship in Wales in 2018-19 for Writing and Translation. His translation from Urdu, The Sixth River, of Fikr Taunsvi's partition journal, is also out in 2019. Ghazalnāma is his first poetry collection.
Publisher: Yoda Press

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