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| Dedication | |
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| A Dragonfly in the Sun | |
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| Thanks | |
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| Contents | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Narcisse: Mallarmeen | |
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| Letter from O'Ni To E.T. at the Shiffolds a Fu | |
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| To My Dog | |
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| From An Old Man's Songs | |
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| Extracts from Twilight in Delhi | |
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| Having become a high official I was sent to preach the Doctrine of No-Famine | |
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| I was put into prison for speaking the truth and there wrote this poem on the advent of spring | |
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| The Wheel of Age comes full circle at last | |
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| Extracts from The Heart Divided | |
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| The Bull and the She Devil | |
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| Circumcision | |
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| The Kingfisher | |
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| Return to Rajagriha | |
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| Arrival of the Monsoon | |
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| Wedding in the Flood | |
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| To See Fruit Ripen | |
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| Flight to London | |
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| Long-distance Call | |
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| Cancer | |
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| Indestructible | |
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| Shirt | |
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| Lights | |
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| Day | |
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| Christmas Letter to my Sister | |
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| Kittens | |
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| Curfew Summer | |
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| Laburnum Tree | |
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| Oyster Rocks | |
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| For my Grandson | |
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| Snipers in Karachi | |
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| Letter from Chao-Chun | |
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| A Speculation | |
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| Regarding the Appearance of Sir Laurence Olivier as Richard III in a Lahore Cinema | |
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| Gold Spot Glow | |
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| Prayer Beads | |
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| An Ancient Indian Coin | |
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| An Ode to Death | |
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| A Street Revisited | |
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| The Blue Wind | |
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| The Hunt | |
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| The Leap | |
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| The Gift | |
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| Voyage to the Enchanted Island | |
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| Turquoise | |
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| From Voyager and Pilgrim | |
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| In the Desert | |
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| You | |
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| From The Origins of the Self | |
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| On Forbidden Territory | |
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| Incident on the Grand Trunk Road | |
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| But You | |
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| The Loss of India | |
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| The Alien | |
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| The Water Carrier | |
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| On Owning Property in the USA | |
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| The Shadow Woman | |
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| Exotic Nights | |
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| Among Perfumed Landscapes | |
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| Trout | |
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| Photograph | |
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| The Hunters in the Snow | |
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| Himalayan Brown | |
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| Winter Term | |
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| The Fifteenth Century | |
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| A Troubadour's Life | |
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| Night Music | |
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| Where No Road Goes | |
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| For Alys Faiz | |
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| Extracts from Ice-Candy-Man | |
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| A Wedding | |
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| In Search of Truth at the Geological Museum | |
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| The Silence | |
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| Alexander Comes of Age | |
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| From Brooklyn to Karachi via Amsterdam | |
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| Simple Questions | |
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| Crocodiles | |
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| Margalla | |
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| Shrine | |
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| Landscape by Leila Shahzada | |
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| The Music Leaves Antony | |
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| For Srebrenica's Dead | |
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| Calvary Misunderstood | |
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| Out Patient I: Truant Visitor | |
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| Out Patient II: Tete a Tete | |
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| Winter Sunset | |
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| The C Minor Prelude and Fugue being Played | |
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| A Better Man Than I: (Six Poems for Kipling) | |
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| As if these Clouds | |
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| Extract from Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree | |
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| Shahrazad's Golden Leopard | |
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| The Laid-Off Man | |
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| Confessions and Lullabies | |
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| Extract from Song for a Sanctuary | |
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| Searching | |
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| The Sarangi Player | |
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| Raja Bazaar | |
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| The Initiation | |
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| Ozymandias II | |
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| Bingo | |
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| Love in an Election Year | |
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| Zoetrope: Reflections and Memories | |
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| The Fulcrum and the Hub: One Birth | |
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| Along the Radius and over the Spokes: First Love - Consummation Continuum | |
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| Upon the Wheel: Cyrus Cyrus | |
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| Encounter with the Sirens | |
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| Eid | |
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| Snow | |
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| Kashmir 1987 | |
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| Pakistan Movement | |
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| Sun and Moon | |
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| Poem from Six Geese From a Tomb at Medum: April '77 | |
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| Among Burning Nettles | |
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| The Tribal Shadow | |
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| The Legend of Roda and Jalalli | |
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| Trolley Man | |
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| Border Line | |
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| Carpet-weaver | |
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| This Sun is my Sun | |
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| Circles | |
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| Elegy | |
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| Brass Objects | |
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| Eid '75 | |
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| I Would Like to be a Dot in a Painting by Miro | |
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| Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan | |
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| The Double City | |
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| The Wedding | |
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| The Colours of the World | |
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| A Bowl of Warm Air | |
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| Extracts from My Beautiful Laundrette | |
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| Extract from Meatless Days | |
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| The Lost Cantos of the Silken Tiger | |
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| Motherhood and Frustration | |
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| The Road | |
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| Solitude | |
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| Childhood Musician | |
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| Shalimar | |
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| Poem | |
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| For Lowell | |
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| The Visiting Grandmother | |
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| Partition | |
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| The Crows | |
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| Letter from Home | |
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| The Return | |
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| A Tribute to Mandela | |
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| Beyond the Veil | |
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| Rains of the Monsoon | |
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| Extract from In the Shadows of the Margalla Hills | |
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| Masunda | |
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| Water Snakes | |
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| From Symbols to Components | |
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| The Chucky | |
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| The Retired Old Bureaucrat, Next Door | |
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| In London | |
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| Extracts from Season of the Rainbirds | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Index | |