The City Issue #2
The city is at once a demon and a muse. We fight its soul-destroying ways,grieve the loss of intimacies, of beloved nooks and alleys, as it becomes larger, complex, estranged. We revel in its sudden joys, serendipity. Sometimes it seems to know and need us. We are awestruck by the eloquence with which it speaks our history. It’s a frame, a mirror. We exile ourselves but remain tethered.
In this second issue, we have more poetry and photography based on the theme of the city. We also have poems in translation from Pushto and Urdu. Fragments of cities, city life from different times and places, different voices, are pieced together here to build anew on fantasy and nostalgia.
About the Editor:
Shadab Zeest Hashmi grew up in the Pakistani border town of Peshawar during the time of the USSR-Afghan war. She was educated at Kinnaird (Pakistan) and Reed College and received her MFA from Warren Wilson in 2009. Her book on the civilization of Al Andalus Baker of Tarifa is the winner of the 2011 San Diego Book Award for poetry. Her work has appeared in Poetry International, Nimrod, The Bitter Oleander, Journal of Postcolonial Writings, The Cortland Review, South Asian Review, Vallum and other places. She has been nominated for a Pushcart prize and is currently a writer-in-residence at San Diego State University.
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