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