{"product_id":"eyes-eyes-eyes","title":"Eyes Eyes Eyes","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(64, 64, 64);\"\u003eby Sara Shagufta\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(64, 64, 64);\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTranslated by Javeria Hasnain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\" style=\"color: rgb(64, 64, 64);\"\u003eWinner of the 2025 PEN-SALT award from English PEN. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(128, 128, 128);\"\u003eISBN: 9781069370464\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(128, 128, 128);\"\u003eOctober 2026 | \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003eOPENS FOR PRE-ORDERS in JULY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(128, 128, 128);\"\u003ePoetry | Translation | Urdu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(128, 128, 128);\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e* draft cover (to be updated)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBOOK DESCRIPTION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(64, 64, 64);\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ansi-language: #0020;\" lang=\"ur\"\u003eOur eyes were carved from our tears.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(64, 64, 64);\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ansi-language: #0020;\" lang=\"ur\"\u003eWe wrestled with our turbulences\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(64, 64, 64);\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ansi-language: #0020;\" lang=\"ur\"\u003e\u0026amp; became our own laments. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(64, 64, 64);\" lang=\"EN\"\u003eSara Shagufta's significance as one of Urdu's most remarkable modern poets is often eclipsed by controversies surrounding her life as a working-class woman searching for love and liberation within sexist poetic milieus in the shadow of repressive patriarchal laws in US-funded militarized Islamist rule in1980s Pakistan.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(64, 64, 64);\" lang=\"EN\"\u003eIn this innovative translation of Shagufta's posthumous collection, \u003ci\u003eAankhein\u003c\/i\u003e, Javeria Hasnain enters into contemporary dialogue with the poet's words, reminding us of how her uncanny metonyms and estranged metaphors unsettled conventions of respectable Urdu poetry. With startling leaps of association, and stark imagery, these moving poems delve into the sensual and erotic realm of the female body, invoking \"eyes,\" \"colours,\" and \"dirt\" to grieve the loss of a child, mourn a failed motherhood, and dismantle the patriarchal and societal forces that seek to eliminate womanhood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(64, 64, 64);\" lang=\"EN\"\u003eThe spare and courageous language of this collection asks readers the most vital and contemporary of questions: What does it mean to be a witness to one's own oppression? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBIOGRAPHIES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\"\u003eSara Shagufta\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\"\u003e (1954-1984) was born in Gujranwal, Punjab in Pakistan to a working-class family displaced in 1947 from India by Partition and lived much of her life in the port-city of Karachi. She wrote experimental, confessional and political poetry and prose in both Urdu and Punjabi. Two volumes of her Urdu poetry, \u003ci\u003eAankhein \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNeend ka Rang, \u003c\/i\u003ewere published posthumously after her tragic early death on June 4, 1984. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\"\u003eJaveria Hasnain\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\"\u003e is a poet, bilingual translator, and literary scholar. Her translation of Sara Shagufta's work for trace received the 2025 PEN Translates (English PEN-SALT) award. Her poems have been published widely and her debut chapbook, \u003ci\u003eSIN\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2026. She was born in Karachi and currently resides in New York City. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\" lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"trace press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46555028029630,"sku":"TR007-PB","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0252\/1186\/3121\/files\/4.png?v=1775162174","url":"https:\/\/tracepress.org\/products\/eyes-eyes-eyes","provider":"trace press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}