Intikhab-e-Kalam: Yaas Yagana

Description

Yaas Yagana Changezi was the founder of Anti-Poetry in Urdu. He chose the traditional forms of ghazal and rubaiyat, yet his approach to life and literature was markedly individual. Yagana shunned love and revolution, the dominant themes in the poetry of his age. He was a poet who had thought and reflection as the basis for his appeal and the poetry in this selection is reflective of this underlying appeal.

Author Biography

Dr Muhammad Reza Kazimi has an MA and PhD from the University of Karachi. He is a critic of Urdu literature and has taught for more than thirty years in different colleges, and at the University of Karachi, the Aga Khan University, and M.A. Jinnah University in Karachi. His latest Urdu book Tehzeeb-o-Takhleeq has been published by Karachi University. His latest English book is A Concise History of Pakistan (OUP 2009). His other publications are Mutale’a-e-Pakistan (OUP, 2006); Pakistan Studies (OUP, 2007); Liaquat Ali Khan: His Life and Work (OUP, 2015); Intikhab-e-Kalam: Ghalib (OUP, 2009); Intikhab-e-Kalam: Sahir Ludhianvi (OUP, 2013).