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Zeeshan Sahil (1961-2008) was a Pakistani poet and critic.Sahil was confined to a wheelchair and suffered from serious health problems his entire life leading to his premature death at the age of 47. Despite the difficulties he faced, Zeeshan Sahil`s poetry is marked by an often lighthearted sensitivity and a post-modern sensibility that presents the political realities of Pakistan in personal terms. His first-ever U.S. poetry collection  .Light and Heavy Things was published by BOA in 2013.

Books by Zeeshan Sahil

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James Ciano

James Ciano holds an MFA from New York University and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Southern California. He…

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Spring Book Bundle

Welcome Spring Book Bundlers! With this one-time purchase you will receive a box with all titles from Boa's spring season. This Spring Book Bundle…

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Subscribe and save on all forthcoming Boa titles within the calendar year! At the start of each season (every 6 months), subscribers will receive…

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Gravity Changes

Winner of the BOA SHORT FICTION PRIZE Recommended in The Washington Post’s 2017 SUMMER BOOK LIST  Gravity Changes is a collection of fantastical, off-beat stories that view the…

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Sidekick

Written by internationally beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye, Sidekick stands as a testament to poetry’s enduring power to bear witness. With each poem, Nye…

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To Sound Like Yourself

In his first collection of essays on poetry in 27 years, W. D. Snodgrass goes after that seminal quality, the poet’s individual voice, that…

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At My Ease: Uncollected Poems of the Fifties and Sixties

Drawing from his literary fathers Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams, Bollingen Prize-winning poet David Ignatow eschews ornamentation in favor of embracing the fierce, uncompromising…

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Radiography

Paperback and signed paperback copies available in limited quantities This collection of lyrical and narrative poems establishes Bruce Bond as one of the finest mid-career…

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The Hymns of Job

Maya Bejerano has said that "Writing is a kind of pretending." That "Poetry gives verbal attire to an elusive and dark world. It's a…

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