Research Catalog

Title

Carrying my wife / Moniza Alvi.

Author

Alvi, Moniza.

Publication

Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Bloodaxe Books ; Chester Springs, PA : U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions, 2000.

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Details

Description

158 pages; 22 cm

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Pakistani poetry (English) > 20th century
• English poetry > Pakistani authors
• Pakistani poetry (English)

Note

• Distributor statement from label on p. [4] of cover.
• Poems.

Contents

Missing -- Quiet People -- Toothbrush -- My Wife and the Composer -- Religious Painting -- Fish -- Carrying My Wife -- An Indoor Couple -- Backgrounds -- All Fours -- Man Impregnated -- My Wife's Problem -- Waistcoat -- Living Alone -- The Unremembered Dream -- Her Song -- Crossroads -- The Size of Our House -- Lizard Tongues -- Awakening First -- Gold -- Loss -- Substance -- The Lake -- If I Was Forced -- The Job -- The Drowning -- Never Too Late -- Nothing Too Passionate at First -- Just Go Away -- The International Stores -- The Other Family -- Ranjit Singh -- I Thought My Parents Were Married -- Blood -- Queen-of-the-Night -- Once -- Takeaway -- Thoughts of a Pakistani Woman in an English Jail -- Incident at the Zoo -- Arctic Summer -- The Uncertainty of the Heart -- The World Has a Passion -- Bully -- Storyteller -- Giants with Tender Hands -- The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe -- The Child Goddess -- The Last Page -- And If -- The Double City -- Hindi Urdu Bol Chaal -- Fighter Planes -- The Wedding -- The Airborne House -- My Father's Father's Father -- The Courtyard -- An Unknown Girl -- My Aunts Don't Want to Move -- Shoes and Socks -- The Colours of the World -- Grand Hotel -- Lahore Canal -- Rolling -- Where Have You Been? -- Delhi Christmas -- Rainy Season -- O Maharani -- The Laughing Moon -- Exile -- Under the Brick -- Houdini -- The Illusionist -- Women of This World -- Burial -- A Bowl of Warm Air -- Moving In -- Our House -- Afterlife -- My Prehistoric Name -- All There Is -- Story of a City -- Tuning In -- I Was Raised in a Glove Compartment -- Pilgrimage -- Neighbourhood -- Hydrangeas -- The Afterworld -- I Make Pencil Drawings, Scribbles, Bales of Hay -- I Would Like to Be a Dot in a Painting by Miro -- Hill -- On Glastonbury Tor -- Red Ridinghood's Plan -- The Garden -- Dream of Uncle -- Man of Tree and Fern -- On Dunton Bridge -- Meeting an Ex-Pupil on a Spring Morning -- In Newspaper -- Throwing Out My Father's Dictionary -- Indian Cooking -- Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan -- Arrival 1946 -- Luckbir -- The Country at My Shoulder -- The Sari -- Map of India -- When Jaswinder Lets Loose Her Hair -- The Asian Fashion Show -- The Draught -- Domain -- Etching -- The Air Was Full of Starfish -- The Great Pudding -- When We Ask to Leave Our City -- On Finding a Letter to Mrs. Vickers on the Pennine Way -- Housebreaker -- Afternoon at the Cinema -- Pink Ear-plugs -- You Are Turning Me into a Novel -- The Fire-Walk -- The Bees -- Ladybirds, Icebirds -- Spring on the Hillside -- The Bed

ISBN

• 1852245379
• 9781852245375

LCCN

2001431696

OCLC

• ocm44852394
• 44852394
• SCSB-1136780

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library