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Sleep Journeys, is counted as one the finest of Urdu’s contemporary poets, Azra Abbas’s collection of verse. She is also among the first Urdu poets to contribute to the growing popularity of experimental, free verse poetry in the late twentieth century. Divided into three cantos that took the Urdu poetic world by storm when it first appeared in 1981, it is one of Azra’s most dense and complex works, a dream-like rumination that explores faith, female desire, and the subconscious mind.
Imprint: India Penguin Modern Classics
Published: Sep/2025
ISBN: 9780143473169
Length : 176 Pages
MRP : ₹499.00
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Published:
ISBN:
Imprint: India Penguin Modern Classics
Published: Sep/2025
ISBN:
Length : 176 Pages
MRP : ₹499.00
Sleep Journeys, is counted as one the finest of Urdu’s contemporary poets, Azra Abbas’s collection of verse. She is also among the first Urdu poets to contribute to the growing popularity of experimental, free verse poetry in the late twentieth century. Divided into three cantos that took the Urdu poetic world by storm when it first appeared in 1981, it is one of Azra’s most dense and complex works, a dream-like rumination that explores faith, female desire, and the subconscious mind.
Daisy Rockwell is an artist, writer, and Hindi-Urdu translator living in Vermont. She is a recipient of the Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award and her translations have been honored with The International Booker Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Translation of a Literary Work, and the Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation. Her novel Alice Sees Ghosts and Mixed Metaphors, her collection of poems about translation, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury India, and her memoir Our Friend, Art is forthcoming from Pushkin Press (UK) in 2027.
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