Rococo and other worlds
Subtitle: selected poems
By: Afzal Ahmed Syed ; translated from the Urdu by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
Contributors: Farooqi, Musharraf, 1968-
Series: Wesleyan poetry; A driftless series book; Wesleyan poetry
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9780819569332
Work titles: Poems
Description: "Afzal Ahmed Syed holds a unique place among contemporary poets of the Urdu language, as a 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." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Translated from Urdu.