Waqas Khwaja—Two Poems from <em>No One Waits for the Train</em>

Passengers catching the train in Lahore (photo Aleem Zahid Khan).

15 OCTOBER 2024 • By Waqas Khwaja
“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

 

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Waqas Khwaja

Waqas Khwaja Waqas Khwaja is the Ellen Douglass Leyburn Professor of English at Agnes Scott College where he teaches courses in Postcolonial literature, British Romanticism, Gothic Literature, Literature of Empire, Victorian novel, 19th century poetry, and Creative Writing. He has published four... Read more

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