Ghazal Cosmopolitan

Shadab Zeest Hashmi

“A marvelous interweaving of poetry, scholarship, literary criticism and memoir…”

Marilyn Hacker

“…a gift that enriches our literature…”

Eleanor Wilner

“…a celebration of, and a love letter to, the language of the world…”

Fady Joudah

“…a smorgasbord of aesthetic pleasures viewed through the prism of the majestic Ghazal…”

Azra Raza

“…a bridge between the eastern and western traditions of literature…”

Raza Rumi

“I particularly like [her] emphasis on the ghazal’s potential to adapt, and her own ghazals…”

Marion Molteno

ISBN 978-0-936481-22-7