December 13, 2020
Tahira Naqvi’s translation of Fahmida Riaz’s poems is flawless, leaving one wanting to delve into the original text
“Coming on the descending side of my life, this collection of poetry may well be my last. That is why I have also included here the poems that are very old but remained unpublished for some reason or lacked only a line or two. But it’s still the same kind of poetry I have always written, that is, an amalgamation of personal and vicarious experiences that kept inter-changing and re-appearing with time in the form of new characters…” quoted from the preface of Fahmida Riaz’s last collection of poetry,