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    Stitched
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    Stitched

    By Hafsa Mukhtar

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    Stitched is a collection of 30 poems that aim to express the usually hidden stories and emotions of people in the form of poetry. It takes you through a journey of understanding how people exist as a whole despite their arduous emotions and stories.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPartridge Publishing India
    Release dateNov 7, 2017
    ISBN9781543700954
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    Hafsa Mukhtar

    HAFSA MUKHTAR is a young poet from Jammu and Kashmir. Having completed her schooling from Laxman Public School, New Delhi, she is currently pursuing Bachelors of Technology from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She considers poetry to be the easiest and the most beautiful way to express life.

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      Stitched - Hafsa Mukhtar

      STITCHED

      HAFSA MUKHTAR

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      Copyright © 2017 by Hafsa Mukhtar.

      ISBN:                   Softcover                         978-1-5437-0096-1

                                  eBook                              978-1-5437-0095-4

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      CONTENTS

      (1) Starvation

      (2) My Father Was A Farmer

      (3) Child Marriage

      (4) Child Labour

      (5) Intersex

      (6) Woman

      (7) Anorexia Nervosa

      (8) Introduction To Pleasure

      (9) Depression

      (10) Dysautonomia

      (11) Blind

      (12) Under My Tongue

      (13) Asperger’s Syndrome

      (14) What Does Fear Taste Like?

      (15) Kashmir

      (16) Agoraphobia

      (17) I’ve Sold Myself To Strangers

      (18) Pessimist

      (19) Witches

      (20) Suicide

      (21) Teenage

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