Selected Poems
Gulzar wears many hats. Filmmaker, songwriter, wordsmith. Yet beneath every role lies something deeper: a sensibility utterly poetic, drenched in observation and feeling. His cinema carries a musicality that few have matched, and his verse stands as a testament to something rarer still: the ability to see the extraordinary lurking within ordinary moments. As one of India's most respected Urdu poets, he's spent decades turning his gaze inward, examining the knotted complexities of human connection with remarkable nuance. What makes his work distinctive isn't grand proclamation but rather a quiet precision, a gift for capturing the texture of how we actually live. This bilingual collection gathers some of his finest pieces, arriving in English through the thoughtful translation of Pavan K. Varma. The poems shimmer here, each one a small room you can step into and never quite want to leave.
- Author: Gulzar
- Publisher: Penguin
- Genre: Poetry
- ISBN: 978-0143418214
- Pages: 136 pages