SLEEP JOURNEYS

Sleep Journeys is counted as one the finest of Urdu’s contemporary poets Azra Abbas’s collection of verse. She is also among the first Urdu poets to contribute to the growing popularity of experimental free verse poetry in the late twentieth century. Divided into three cantos that took the Urdu poetic world by storm when it first appeared in 1981 it is one of Azra’s most dense and complex works a dream-like rumination that explores faith female desire and the subconscious mind.