"Ai samandar" in the Noon Meem Rashed Archive

At the Noon Meem Rashed Archive we have recently put up a couple of versions of Rashed's poem "Ai samandar," one from Shamsur Rahman Faruqi's journal Shabkhoon, and a handwritten draft of the poem that exists in the Archive. The different versions that we have can tell us about the history of changes to the text that this poem has undergone. There is also another early typewritten draft in the Archive, which will be revealed in due course.

Noon Meem Rashed Archive - Expression and Reach, a translation by Safdar Mir and N. M. Rashed

Work on the Noon Meem Rashed Archive goes on apace. The second substantial post is on Safdar Mir’s translation of Rashed’s poem "Izhār aur rasā’ī," which was corrected by Rashed and sent by him to the American poet Carolyn Kizer, who later published her own rendering in her anthology Carrying Over. 

You can read the post here: Expression and Reach — Translation by Safdar Mir & N. M. Rashed.