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Maaz Bin Bilal, "Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan" (India Penguin Classics, 2022)

New Books in Poetry

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Galaib's Collection of Words Is Text of Divine Revelation

In the Indian persona or Urdu traditions, the importance of the poet was recognized by evaluating his presence. But once these critics began comparing Galaib to some of the European philosophers or poets like Rimbaud, what started happening was that Galaib got extricated from this long and sometimes over a set-sized tradition of Western Poetics. Not just his humanism but also his skepticism, very modern questioning outlook. And he began to be valued for his own thematic concerns, his own poetic concerns, and not just the proscody in the poetics.

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