The Inner World

By Shuja Nawaz

Let Shuja Nawaz take you into The Inner World, a poetic travelogue enriched by a lifetime of discovery across the globe, and introduce you to the people and places that inform this delightfully rich trove of imagery and wordplay. A fitting follow-up to his earlier highly treasured Journeys, this volume will entice and enthrall you.

Shuja Nawaz takes you behind the scenes of his own life as a world-renowned strategic and security analyst and advisor of civil and military leaders in the United States, Europe, and South Asia. These poems will surprise and excite you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Jan 12, 2016
• ISBN: 9781480826281

Shuja Nawaz

Shuja Nawaz was born in Chakri Rajgan, Jhelum District, Pakistan, and educated at Gordon College, Rawalpindi (Pakistan), and Columbia University, New York. He has been a newsman for Pakistan Television and has worked at the New York Times, the World Health Organization in Geneva, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. More recently he was the founding director of the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC. His poems have appeared in journals in the United States, Austria, and Pakistan, and he has held readings for audiences in all three countries. His previous book of verse, Journeys, was published by Oxford University Press (1998). He lives with his wife, Seema, in Alexandria, Virginia.

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ISBN: 978-1-4808-2627-4 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4808-2628-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016900463

Archway Publishing rev. date: 1/21/2016

Cover photograph: Doorway of author’s village home, Chakri Rajgan, Jhelum District, Pakistan now destroyed by rains. Author photo.

Contents

Introduction

Innocenti

The Visitor

The First Child

Antipodes

Fifty

Diaspora

Vienna

Searching for Clues

Final Verse

Face the World

The Wish Girl

The Sun Shone Bright

First Do No Harm

Regrets

Ramadan

Marriage

Early Morning Light

Seeing