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- Rococo and Other Worlds: Selected Poems
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- 2012
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
- Series: The Driftless Series & Wesleyan Poetry Series
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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.
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- from Rococo and Other Worlds—2000
- Rococo and Other Worlds
- pp. 3-4
- Viewers’ Choice
- pp. 5-6
- A Corroded Pin
- pp. 8-9
- It Could Never Be
- p. 13
- Britannicus
- p. 17
- A Beginning with Great Names
- pp. 19-20
- A Dog’s Death
- p. 21
- Tell Me a Story
- pp. 22-23
- from Death Sentence in Two Languages—1990
- You Live in Lovely Orbs
- pp. 31-32
- The Genres of Poetry
- pp. 37-38
- To Live Is a Mechanistic Torture
- pp. 39-40
- Whom One Loves
- pp. 42-43
- The Last Contention
- p. 44
- Has Love Been Mislaid
- pp. 45-46
- Near Lavania
- p. 54
- Those Who Own the Filly
- pp. 55-56
- Step into My Parlor
- p. 58
- from An Arrogated Past—1984
- I Invented Poetry
- pp. 65-66
- The Clay-mine
- pp. 67-72
- If Someone Would Remember Me
- pp. 77-78
- What the Sea Said to You
- pp. 79-80
- If They Could Learn
- pp. 81-82
- To Live Another Day
- p. 83
- If I Do Not Return
- pp. 84-85
- The Slaughter of Snow-Birds
- pp. 86-87
- Inclination
- pp. 88-90
- The Heart of a Poet
- pp. 91-93
- The Dirge of a Rabid Dog
- pp. 94-95
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