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    Light and Heavy Things: Selected Poems of Zeeshan Sahil
    Light and Heavy Things: Selected Poems of Zeeshan Sahil
    Light and Heavy Things: Selected Poems of Zeeshan Sahil
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    Light and Heavy Things: Selected Poems of Zeeshan Sahil

    By Zeeshan Sahil and Christopher Kennedy

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    Light and Heavy Things provides readers in this country an opportunity to discover the work of the late Pakistani poet, Zeeshan Sahil. Although readers of Urdu poetry mourned his passing in 2008, Sahil is a relatively unknown poet in the United States. Sahil's work conveys his post-modern sensibility with plain language, presenting political realities of Pakistan in personal terms.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBOA Editions Ltd.
    Release dateMay 10, 2013
    ISBN9781938160134
    Light and Heavy Things: Selected Poems of Zeeshan Sahil

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      Book preview

      Light and Heavy Things - Zeeshan Sahil

      [image: cover]

      LIGHT AND HEAVY THINGS

      [image: cover]

      English language translations copyright © 2013 by Faisal Siddiqui, Christopher

      Kennedy, and Mi Ditmar

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      First Edition

      13 14 15 16 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      For information about permission to reuse any material from this book, please contact The Permissions Company at www.permissionscompany.com or e-mail permdude@eclipse.net.

      Publications by BOA Editions, Ltd.—a not-for-profit corporation under section 501 (c) (3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code—are made possible with funds from a variety of sources, including public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; the Literature Program of the National Endowment for the Arts; the County of Monroe, NY; the Lannan Foundation for support of the Lannan Translations Selection Series; the Mary S. Mulligan Charitable Trust; the Rochester Area Community Foundation; the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester; the Steeple-Jack Fund; the Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust in memory of Henry Ames, Semon Amzalak and Dan Amzalak; and contributions from many individuals nationwide.

      Cover Design: Daphne Morrissey

      Cover Photo: Jay Muhlin

      Interior Design and Composition: Richard Foerster

      Manufacturing: McNaughton & Gunn

      BOA Logo: Mirko

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Sahil, Zeeshan, 1961–2008.

      [Poems. Selections]

      Light and heavy things: the selected poems of Zeeshan Sahil / translated by

      Faisal Siddiqui, Christopher Kennedy, and Mi Ditmar.

      pages cm. — (Lannan Translations Selection Series)

      Poems.

      ISBN 978-1-938160-12-7 (Paper) — ISBN 978-1-938160-13-4 (E-Book)

      I. Title.

      PR9540.9.S24L5413 2013

      821'.92—dc23

      2012044348

      Lannan

      BOA Editions, Ltd.

      250 North Goodman Street, Suite 306

      Rochester, NY 14607

      www.boaeditions.org

      A. Poulin, Jr., Founder (1938–1996)

      This book is dedicated to the memory of Zeeshan Sahil

      (1961–2008)

      Contents

      Title Page

      Foreword

      Black Bird

      A Poem for You

      Poem

      My Uncle’s House

      Taliban

      Birds

      What Does Suu Kyi Want?

      I Will Send a Bird

      Love

      Knife

      Poem

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