Children, Butterfly, Flower

Powerful, disquieting poems from the Black Pakistani experience by one of Urdu literature's finest practitioners, now in English for the first time.

For the past four decades, N. M. Danish has been creating one of the most singular bodies of work in Urdu poetry, one grounded within the African diasporic literary tradition of Négritude that also draws on classical Urdu forms to create a black, leftist poetics that is entirely his own.

A black Pakistani poet of African and Baloch descent, Danis...