Intikhab-e-Kalam: Meeraji

Description

This is a selection of poems by Meeraji, who initially struck litterateurs as odd and whose poems contained ambiguity of a level not found earlier in Urdu poetry. Shortly after his death, Meeraji came to be regarded as a leading modern Urdu poet and he became a veritable cult figure. Never before had ambiguity and lyricism come together as they did in the poems of Meeraji. His sensibility was discovered to be rare but genuine and his oeuvre has been hailed as a classic.

Author Biography

Dr. Asif Farrukhi is a professor, short story-writer, critic and a renowned literary figure of Pakistan. He has compiled many anthologies of Pakistani writers. He regularly contributes to a leading daily, Dawn Karachi and different literary periodicals. He is currently editing and publishing a literary miscellany in Urdu Duniyazaad. He is a Doctor of Medicine by profession. He received the Prime Minister’s award for literature in 1995 and Tamgha-i-Imtiaz in 2005 by the President of Pakistan.