A Selection of VerseA Selection of Verse, is a carefully sifted volume that contains the best of Daud Kamal's work. Through honesty, the sheer tactility of the imagery and the zen-like focus he brought to bear, Daud achieved the very order it was his life's work to uncover. The volume contains poems of great economy and precision bringing to us his world of wonder and terror. |
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18 December Annanda and told army relief-camp best poems black ice blind rivers bride-to-be covers brittle truths crow culture...the Daud Kamal Daud Kamal—The DAY BRIGHTENS SLOWLY departure's final Devon draw the wavering dream eyes brighter Faiz in English final and solitude Fishnets forgive the treachery Four Contemporary Poets four sides slit Ghalib ghazal horseback leapt Ikram Azam imagery imagist Interim Press Interview with Daud Islamabad JELC Karachi Lahore LEAP Alexander measure your losses Memory of Daud mirror Moonburst on thighs mother washes someone Muslim narrow lanes Pakistani perfection of sleep Peshawar Poems of Faiz poetry pomegranate pulsing stars QUILT THIS WINTER Rain-puddles Remote Beginning scorpion silhouettes in water sit scraping solitude a perpetual somewhere that Buddha sounds of oxen-bells STREET OF NIGHTINGALES swirling tethered horse whisks thighs of snow treachery of blind trees he listened truths nor lush UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN unspent lives Virgin forest widowed mother washes windowsill