The vintage years: Alamgir Hashmis: address to the 62d World Congress of International PEN, 29 October 1995.(Transcript) From: World Literature Today | Date: June 22, 1997 | COPYRIGHT 1997 University of Oklahoma. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

A Pakistani writer dwelt on the significance of each of his works in his address to the 62nd World Congress of International PEN. His address revolved around his published books, including 'The Oath and Amen,' Americas is a Punjabi Word,' 'My Second in Kentucky,' 'This Time in Lahore,' Neither This Time/Nor That Place,' 'Inland and Other Poems,' and 'Sun and Moon and Other Poems.' He revealed that love is a recurring theme and quality in his works even as he asserted that the practice of poet...

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