Poetry.
Cycling between delirious grandeur and wretched despair, she is torn between two selves--the.
As she maps her romances onto legends, directing their characters perform her own tragedy, their fantastical metaphors easily lend themselves to her fluctuating mental state.
SHAHR-E-JAANAAN sets out to recreate the universe of Urdu and Persian poetic tradition, its tropes both lenses and mirrors for the speaker\'s reality.
Winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize.
Asian & Asian American Studies.
Poetry