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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.

 

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Sometimes her poems are weather warnings, sometimes bulletin boards from the bazaar, sometimes whispered admonitions. Some of her poems are, indeed, delicate curses, others are shouting matches; some are quiet prayers, others are howls of protest and some are jokes so elaborate and so heartfelt that you smile and clutch your heart at the same time. -- Mohammad Hanif - Mohammad hanif

The vulnerabilities and anxieties of relationships are delicately and masterfully explored in Azra Abbas's Sleep Journeys (Nind Ki Musafatein) through a girl's probing and foretelling vision. Azra’s unique voice bridges the poetic and the mundane through a controlled expression. -- Musharraf Ali Farooqui - Musharraf Ali Farooqui

About the Author

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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  • ISBN: 9780143473169
  • Author: Azra Abbas
  • Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Pages: 176
  • Format: Paperback
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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.

 

Review

Sometimes her poems are weather warnings, sometimes bulletin boards from the bazaar, sometimes whispered admonitions. Some of her poems are, indeed, delicate curses, others are shouting matches; some are quiet prayers, others are howls of protest and some are jokes so elaborate and so heartfelt that you smile and clutch your heart at the same time. -- Mohammad Hanif - Mohammad hanif

The vulnerabilities and anxieties of relationships are delicately and masterfully explored in Azra Abbas's Sleep Journeys (Nind Ki Musafatein) through a girl's probing and foretelling vision. Azra’s unique voice bridges the poetic and the mundane through a controlled expression. -- Musharraf Ali Farooqui - Musharraf Ali Farooqui

About the Author

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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