Children, Butterfly, Flower
$46.93
- Paperback
120 pages
- Release Date
4 May 2027
Summary
Powerful, disquieting poems from the Black Pakistani experience by one of Urdu literature’s finest practitioners, now in English for the first time.
For the past four decades, N. M. Danish has been creating one of the most singular bodies of work in Urdu poetry, one grounded within the African diasporic literary tradition of Negritude that also draws on classical Urdu forms to create a black, leftist poetics that is entirely his own.
A black Pakistani poet of African and Baloc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798896230991 |
|---|---|
| Author: | N.M. Danish, Haider Shahbaz |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Poets |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 120 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2027 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 114mm x 178mm |
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N.M. Danish
N. M. Danish (Noor Mohammad Danish) is a Pakistani poet of African and Baloch descent. He was born in Karachi’s Lyari neighborhood, the center of Baloch politics and culture in the city. He helped found the Lyari Naujawaan Tehreek (Lyari Youth Movement) and later served as the head of the Baloch Student Organization-Awami. In addition to poetry, he writes literary criticism, much of it published in leading Urdu literary journals. He also goes by the pen name Noon Meem Danish. He lives in Connecticut.
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