and the Scholar is an eloquent plea for the centrality
flashes of brilliance to be cherished
looking to climb into each other’s eyes
his poetry is written from the perspective of someone who suffered
all these events cast long shadows and raise questions about who is recording them
The Displaced Children of Displaced Children by Faisal Mohyuddin <br><b> PBS Recommendation Summer 2018 </b></br> #Ninearchespress and the Scholar is anIn a family history that journeys between America, Pakistan, modern Europe, and even into space, Faisal Mohyuddin delves into the past of his parents and their neighbours in Pakistan and India in a self consciously impossible attempt to find some way of belonging to a place that is lost. Moving from elegant ghazals of lament to stuttering, disjointed phrases of yearning, Mohyuddin portrays what it is to be displaced, geographically, spiritually, and
