The Ramazan Libation: Selected Poems - Softcover

"Hashmi is now widely recognised as Pakistan's premier English-language poet and a major literary voice form Asia." Carlo Coppola; "It's the range of his voice and material, the willingness to travel wherever knowledge and experience might take him, that mark Hashmi as vital. He is also a political poet of courage, a poet of understanding, respect and 'justice'... this is a new and vigorous selection that shows the poet in all his diversity. His is a voice that belongs wherever it is read." John Kinsella"

Alamgir Hashmi has been writing poetry for the past forty years. Recipient of many major literary prizes, he was the first English-language writer to bring such recognition to English writing in Pakistan. Equally well-known as author of several scholarly books, he has been Professor of English and Comparative Literature in Pakistan, Europe and the United States. He was a judge of the Commonwealth Literature Prize in 1992 and a member of the 1996 jury for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.