The poems of Alamgir Hashmi.

From: The Literary Review | Date: June 22, 1994| Author: Raffel, Burton | Copyright information

The Pakistani poet Alamgir Hashmi works well with a language which is not his mother-tongue. His English poems reveal his virtuosity with the language and his ability to deal with profound themes. Though he has won a lot of awards in Pakistan, he is yet to get the attention he deserves in the US. Hashmi's poems are a unique mixture of Eastern perspective and Western language.

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