“American English his adopted language, at home in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Syracuse, N. Y., Raza Ali Hasan deals with material unavailable to any other poet I know writing in English. Without rank, without comrades, he has fought battles of the mind and spirit. The reader may hear music he does not recognize; perhaps it is of the subcontinent. The architecture is American fusion, Mughal, postcolonial, colonial, sometimes peasant, sometimes Syracuse motel. Ali Hasan does not play cricket; his often painfully beautiful poems do not play fair.” --Stanley Moss

Endorsements:

“Raza Ali Hasan takes us behind the lifted veil and through the hole in the sheet that hides the bride. He's a verbal magician and a talent to watch. Read this.” —Gary Karr

RAZA ALI HASAN received an MFA from Syracuse University where he was a University Fellow. He also has an MA in English from University of Texas at Austin. His poems have appeared in Agni, Shenandoah, Tampa Review, Cimarron Review, Puerto del Sol and Poetry International. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Iowa State University.

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