“Evocative at many levels of Waqas Khwaja’s chosen literary ancestors such as Baba Farid, Bulle Shah, Kabir, and Nanak, No One Waits for the Train is a soulful meditation on the 1947 partition of British India. Khwaja’s poetry captures in image, narrative voice, and personal memory the terrible beauty of an innocence now lost, of a train that never arrives, of a platform strewn with bodies, of a pain that never ends, and a love in the valley that endures.” —Amritjit Singh, Langston Hughes Professor of African-American Literature, Ohio University
Waqas Khwaja
