The Distance of a Shout
by Naheed, Kishwar; Farrukhi, AsifEdition: 2nd
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-05-26
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Kishwar Naheed is a prominent voice in Urdu literature. This expanded collection of her work includes ten additional poems, presented with the original Urdu version. The English translations have been contributed by established and well-known poets.
Author Biography
Kishwar Naheed grew up in Lahore and has been contributing as a creative writer to several publications for many decades. She has also served various women's organizations. Between 1961 and 1998 she wrote eight collections of poetry. Two of her books were published in India, and selected poems have been published in Europe, USA, and Africa. She has also edited and published research work on the plight of women. As a translator she has rendered various works into Urdu including Folk Tales of Asia, a UNESCO assignment published in 1976. She was the recipient of the Mandela Award in 1997, and was awarded the Sitara-e-Imtiaz by the Government of Pakistan in 2000.
Table of Contents
| Kishwar Naheed | p. 2 |
| The end of exploitation | p. 6 |
| A distance of two miles | p. 8 |
| Recompense | p. 10 |
| The grass is really like me | p. 12 |
| Listen, Jane Austen | p. 14 |
| Agreement | p. 16 |
| Listen to me | p. 18 |
| Section 144 | p. 20 |
| Speech number twenty-seven | p. 22 |
| How crazy are those who love you so much | p. 26 |
| Confession | p. 28 |
| I feel in my bones | p. 30 |
| I am not that woman | p. 34 |
| Ghazal | p. 38 |
| Soliloquy | p. 40 |
| A window view | p. 44 |
| First class needs of third class citizens | p. 46 |
| Nightmare | p. 48 |
| Eyes between fire and snow | p. 52 |
| A story among many | p. 54 |
| History does not repeat itself | p. 56 |
| Anticlockwise | p. 58 |
| Speechless princess | p. 60 |
| Accusation of a dream for being alive | p. 62 |
| A palace of wax | p. 64 |
| A poem out of focus | p. 68 |
| To the masters of countries with a cold climate | p. 70 |
| We sinful women | p. 74 |
| The imaginary adversary | p. 78 |
| A paradise called home | p. 82 |
| Dreamcolours | p. 86 |
| Signatures | p. 90 |
| The mannequin show | p. 92 |
| Charge sheet 1990 | p. 94 |
| Relationships with no direction | p. 96 |
| The silent volcano | p. 98 |
| Tell the gods | p. 100 |
| A two-brick room | p. 104 |
| Turning the page | p. 106 |
| Mankind on trial | p. 108 |
| Talking to a shepherd in Chaghi | p. 110 |
| What befell a fisherman in Badin | p. 112 |
| A snapshot of Ramallah | p. 114 |
| Commonplace miracles | p. 116 |
| Let's talk about it | p. 118 |
| The poisoned cup of mother's love | p. 120 |
| Standing on the shore, a poem | p. 122 |
| Referendum 2002 | p. 124 |
| On watching CNN in 2001 | p. 126 |
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