Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved

Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved

by Adeeba Talukder
Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved

Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved

by Adeeba Talukder

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"I fell captive to the spells of its stories--Scheherezade and her command over wild nights of imagination come to mind. Maybe it's the way Talukder manages to both evoke Urdu poetic tradition and create her own--these poems swoon with the restrained sensuality of the old world while dancing with the glittering passions of the new. Let yourself get caught up in this book's wondrous whorls and whirls--you won't regret it." --Tarfia Faizullah, author of Registers of Illuminated Villages and Seam

"After everything we thought we knew about ourselves, and our loss, there is more to find: 'When the color left / my cheeks,' the poet writes, 'You / left too.' This book is an exquisite lyrical feast." --Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa

"Adeeba Talukder's City of the Beloved hovers on the nexus of heartache and joy, a meeting point of arrival and exodus, and where love is the revolving door to the world of the unknown. Recalling the concision and scintillating acumen of Emily Dickinson, Mirabai, Rabia and Sappho, and drawing on the masters of Urdu and Persian poetry, Talukder renders a full world of heart, soul, and body, profound and daunting, sensual and sacred, enchanting and redeemable. This is a beautiful, stunning and unforgettable book." -- Khaled Mattawa, author of Mare Nostrum

Adeeba Shahid Talukder is a Pakistani American poet, singer, and translator of Urdu and Persian poetry. She is the author of the chapbook What Is Not Beautiful (Glass Poetry Press, 2018).


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781946482433
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Publication date: 07/15/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 104
File size: 5 MB
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