Modern Poetry of Pakistan offers many offshoots of the classical tradition of Muslim poetry in India. Although Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), considered by some to be the first poet writing in a ...
Our perhaps forgivable tendency to group the Romantic tribe of early 19th-century poets under a single collective title is a disservice both to history and to literature. Byron opened his Don Juan ...
ONE is tempted to begin the review of Raza Mir’s The Taste of Words: An Introduction to Urdu Poetry by quoting Gulzar, a versatile genius and a great lover of Urdu. While commending Mir in the ...
The award-winning poet, whose forthcoming book, "Night Owl," will be published in March, will participate in two talks during ...
If American poetry were a production line for a series of anointed poet-stars, and if the next bobble-head doll to succeed the Robert Lowell model were already in the works, recent history would be ...