Title: Rococo and Other Worlds: Selected Poems (The Driftless Series & Wesleyan Film Series)
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication Date: 2010
Language: English
ISBN 10: 081956933X
ISBN 13: 9780819569332
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

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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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AFZAL AHMED SYED is the author of numerous volumes of poetry and translations of Western literature into Urdu, including works by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jean Genet. MUSHARRAF ALI FAROOQI is an author, novelist, and translator. His books include translations of the Urdu classics The Adventures of Amir Hamza (2007) and Hoshruba (2009), and the novel, The Story of a Widow (2008).

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